Narayanaswami Anantaraman - Senior Physicist and Assistant Director for User Relations, NSCL
Ph.D. 1973, (Physics) University of Chicago
Research interests in experimental nuclear physics, India related outreach, education on Hinduism, culture and history of India.
Phone: (ofc.) 333-6337, (dept.) 355-6337; Fax: 353-5967;

anantaraman@nscl.msu.edu

Mohammed Ayoob - Distinguished University Professor, International Relations
Ph.D. 1966, (Political Science) University of Hawaii.
Teaching interests in international relations and political development of the third world, contemporary world politics, South Asia and the Middle East.
Research interests in regional security in the third world, state-making and third world security, international politics and security of South Asia and the Middle East.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3538, (dept.) 353-6750; Fax: 432-1804;

ayoob@msu.edu

Ravinder Bhavnani - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. 2003, (Comparative Politics and Methodology) University of Michigan
Teaching interests in political violence and comparative politics of developing areas (South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa).
Research interests in ethnic violence, popular rebellion, and civil war.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-3527, (dept.) 355-6590; Fax: 432-1091;

bhavnani@msu.edu

Diana Dimitrova - Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Ph.D. 2000 (Indology) Heidelberg
Teaching interests in religions and philosophy of South Asia, bhakti Hinduism and Hindi Literature. Research interests in Hindi theater, Buddhism, Hindu thought, North Indian Islam, Sufis, women and religion and Hindu goddesses.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-0830, (dept.) 353-2930; Fax: 432-1460;

dimitro7@msu.edu

Ved Gossain - Chief, Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Ph.D. M.D. 1967, (Internal Medicine) All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Teaching interests in India, medical education in India at undergraduate level and continuing medical education.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3730, (dept.) 353-6625; Fax: 353-5436;

gossain@msu.edu

Norman Graham - Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean, James Madison College
Ph.D. 1980, (Political Science) Columbia University.
Teaching interests in Japan and India as well as international organization, foreign policy analysis and politics of international economic relations.
Research interests in technology transfer and industrial competitiveness in India, Japan and the Republic of Korea, and in security, arms transfer, and economic development in Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3372, (dept.) 355-6750; Fax: 432-1804;

grahamn@msu.edu

Anning Jing - Associate Professor, Art
Ph.D. 1994, (Art History), Princeton University.
Teaching interests in Arts of China, Japan, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia; Nature in Asian art; Asian Buddhist art. Current research includes Chinese Buddhist art, Chinese Daoist art, Chinese folk temples, Chinese landscape painting.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-7633, (dept.) 355-7610; Fax: 432-3938;

jinga@msu.edu

Nan Johnson- Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 1977, (Sociology), Pennsylvania State University.
Current research focuses on lack of female autonomy in the patriarchical family system in India, the strategies by which Indian females are beginning to acquire autonomy within their marital family, and the demographic consequences of female dependency/autonomy. Special demographic consequences of Interest are the greater death rates of girls than boys and the possible reduction of sex differences in children's health when their mother is more educated than their paternal grandmother.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-5974, (dept.) 355-6640, Fax: 432-2856;

johnsonn@msu.edu

Kunwar Rajendra - Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D.,Transportation Engineering, Michigan State University
Teaching interests in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure Systems.
Research interests in Intelligent Transportation Systems, including Advanced Transportation Systems (ATMS), Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS), Commercial Vehicles Operations (CVO), Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII), Systems Analysis, Operations, International Border Crossing Systems, Homeland Security systems, International issues in Transportation including safety, tele-communications and congestion; Training and Education; Economic analysis of intelligent systems and advanced technologies.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-9562; Fax: 353-1980

rajendr2@msu.edu

Sobha Ramanand - Adjunct Professor, Graduate School
Ph.D. 1996, (Organizational & Community Resource Development and Human Resource Management) Michigan State University
Teaching interests in non-profit management and undergraduate courses in Integrated Social Science.
Research interests in South Asia, and social capital, knowledge-driven work and high-performance teams in Lean manufacturing in Japan and at Japanese sites in the U.S.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-7337, (dept.) 353-0301; Fax: 353-3355;

ramanand@msu.edu

Jeffrey Riedinger - Associate Dean, International Studies and Programs, Associate Professor, Resource Development
Ph.D. 1991, (Public and International Affairs) Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Teaching interests in Philippines, Indonesia, India, Nepal, South and Southeast Asia, agrarian reform, rural development, environmental law, natural resource management and development administration.
Research interests in politics of agrarian reform, agro-forestry practices in tropical uplands, the role of non-governmental organizations in rural development and environmental protection and peasant participation in social revolutionary movements.
Phone: (ofc.) (ISP) 355-2352 (Political Sci) 355-6599, (dept.) 355-6590; Fax: (ISP) 353-7254) (Political Sci) 432-1091;

riedinge@msu.edu