Visiting Speakers

David Price is a cultural anthropologist and a professor of anthropology and sociology at St. Martin's University, in Lacey, Washington, where he has taught since 1994. 

Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University and Director of the Duke Center for South Asian Studies. She studied ancient Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi before taking her Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley.

George Rosen received his Ph.D. from Princton Univeristy in 1949 and is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago specializing in the economic development of India & China.

Julie Salamon is an award-winning journalist, author, and critic. Her major publications include Hospital (2008), Facing the Wind (2001), The Net of Dreams (1996), and Rambam’s Ladder (2003).

Michael Saler is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis, where he teaches courses on modern European intellectual history and modern British history.

Priya Satia is currently Associate Professor of History at Stanford where she teaches courses on modern Britain and the British Empire.

Elizabeth Sawyer is a doctoral student at Trinity College, Oxford University who specializes in Classics.  She was a Visiting Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics at Northwestern University.

Anwar Shaikh is a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research. He received his PhD in 1973 from Columbia University, and his research concentrations include political economy, macroeconomic growth and cycles, and international trade.