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Doctoral Dissertations, by Department
Anthropology
- Regina Almeda Duran, Proximate Literacy, Inter and Intrahousehold Externalities and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from India
- Pamila Gupta, St. Francis Xavier,the Corpse of History: Ritual, Representation, and Regeneration (in progress)
- Maimuna Huq, Contemporary Islamist Movements: Attempts at an Anthropological Analysis and Critical Review (in progress)
- Naveeda Khan, Constructing Citizens: Urban Mosques in Pakistan, 1947 to the Present (in progress)
- Hanna Kim, Being Swaminarayan: The Ontology and Significance of Belief in the Construction of a Gujarati Diaspora (2000)
- Lisa Mitchell, The Emergence of Telugu Linguistic Identity (in progress)
- Nauman Nagri, The Emergence of a Modern Urdu Historiography in 19th Century Colonial India (in progress)
- Dard Neuman, Disciplining Hindustani Classical Music (in progress)
- Morten Olesen, Truths and Tenacity in Colombo: The Debate on Tamil-Sinhala Relations (in progress)
- Svati Shah, Sex Work, Public Health, and nationalism in North India (in progress)
- Nandini Sundar, In Search of Gunda Dhur: Colonialism and Constestation in Bastar, Central India, 1854-1993 (1995)
- Michele Verma, South Asian Diaspora(s), Hindu Diaspora, Religious Education
- Amanda Weidman, The Politics of "Classical" Music in South India (2001)
- Maxine Weisgrau, The Social and Political Relations of Development: NGOs and Adivasis in Rural Rajasthan (1993)
- Vazira Zamindar, Divided Families and the Making of Nationhood in India and Pakistan (1947-65) (in progress)
- Karin Zitzewitz, Modern Art and the Self-Imagination of the Bombay Bourgeoisie (in progress)
Art History
- Molly Aitkin, The Significance of Style: Mewar Paintings in the Eighteenth Century (2000)
- Joan Cummins, Dual Darshana: Re-Addressing the Surya Icon (in progress)
- Debra Diamond, Tracing History: Jodhpur Painting of the Man Singh Period, 1803-1843 (2000)
- Susanne Francoeur, Style and Workships in Ajanta Paintings (1998)
- Annapurna Garimella, Speaking Stones: Self-sacrifice and Memorial Architecture in Pre-modern South India (in progress)
- Shaalini Ranasinghe, Merchants, Missionaries, and the Castle of Emperor Fasidadas: Origins of Gondarin Architecture in Ethiopia (in progress)
Economics
- Tanweer Akram, Privatization of Public Enterprises: The Case of Bangladesh (in progress)
English and Comparative Literature
- Sunil Agnani, German Orientalism (in progress)
- Siraj Ahmed, Eighteenth Century Literary Representations of India (1999)
- Quadri Ismail, Constituting Nation, Contesting Nationalism: Gender Subalternity and Community in South Asia (1998)
- Priya Joshi, A Bridge Over Troubled Water: British Popular Fiction and the Emergence of the Novel in India (1995)
- Sanjay Krishnan, Literary and Cultural Representations of Modern Malaysia (2001)
- Aamir Mufti, Enlightenment in the Colony: the Jewish Question and Dilemmas in Postcolonial Modernity (1997)
- Sonali Perera, Thinking Working Class Writing within a Global Frame (in progress)
- Minnie Singh, The Making of Rudyard Kipling: From Gossip Tale to Imperial Pastoral (1994)
- Milind Wakankar, Subject, Form, Experience: Aesthetic Debates in Indian Nationalism, 1920-1962 (in progress)
History
- Janaki Bakhle, Two Men and Music: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Making of a National Art (2001)
- Ritu Birla, Hedging Bets: The Politics of Commercial Ethics in Late Colonial India (1999)
- Sheetal Chhabria, *(title coming soon)
- Elizabeth Kolsky, Women and Criminal Law in Colonial Punjab, 1860-1947 (in progress)
- Allen McGrath, The Myth of Pakistan's Failed Democracy (1992)
- Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Punjabi Popular (2001)
- Mridu Rai, The Problem of Legitimacy in Kashmir: Religion or Rights? c. 1846-1947 (1999)
- Dushka Saiyid, The Changing Position of Muslim Women in Punjab Law, 1872-1947 (1995)
- Usha Sanyal, In the Path of the Prophet: Maulana Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and the Ahl-e-Sunnat wa Jama'at Movement in British India, c. 1870-1921 (1990)
- Michael Silvestri, The Dirty War of Empire: Policing Political Violence and Public Order in Colonial Bengal, 1905-1947 (1998)
- Shubnam Tejani, A Social-intellectual History of Indian Secularism (in progress)
- Jyotsana Uppal, Decay, Diet, and Desire: the Making of Community in Colonial Punjab (1998)
- Susan VanKoski, The Indian Ex-soldier from the Eve of the First World War to Independence and Partition: A Study of Provisions for Ex-soldiers and Ex-soldiers' Role in Indian National Life (1995)
Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
- Amy Bard, Desolate Victory: Shi'i Women and the Marsiyah Texts of Lucknow (2002)
- Nadine Berardi, The Dhvanyaloka and Literary Semiotics (in progess)
- Edwin Bryant, The Indigenous Aryan Debate (1997)
- Jason Freitag, The Power that Protects You: James Tod and the Rajput Ideal (Spring 2001)
- Saira Hamidi, *(title coming soon)
- Eric Huberman, Language, Love, and Silence: Readings of Separation in the Sanskrit Epic, Poetic, and Puranic Traditions (1991)
- Jai Kasturi, *(title coming soon)
- Prashant Keshavmurthy, *(title coming soon)
- Mohamad Khan, *(title coming soon)
- Pamela Lothspeich, The Nationalist Project of Maithilisharan Gupta (in progress)
- Gurinder Singh Mann, The Making of Sikh Scripture (1992)
- David Mellins, The Cool Rays of Aesthetics and Reasoning: Jayadeva's Candraloka and its Role in the Eovlution of Alamkarasastra (2004)
- Wesley Michel, *(title coming soon)
- Haroon Moghul, *(title coming soon)
- Geeta Patel, Miraji: Poetry in Motion (1995)
- Alexander Sean Pue, *(title coming soon)
- Toshio Sako, Karman in Indian Philosophy and Vasubandhu's Exposition (1996)
- Susan Sinberg, Tara and the Tara-mula-kalpa: The Tara Cult's Formative Period in India (1994)
- Audrey Truschke, *(title coming soon)
Music
- Nicholas ("Niko") Higgins, Carnatic/Jazz fusion music
- Anna Stirr, Nepal (and also with Tibetan exile communities)
Political Science
- Nandita Aras, The Social Basis of Hindu Nationalism and Hindu Nationalist Parties (in progress)
- Sumantra Bose, Democracy and National Self-Determination: Institutional Structure in Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and Southern Asia (1999)
- Christopher Candland, The Economic Legacies of Political Regimes: Labor Institutions and Structural Adjustment in India and Pakistan (1996)
- Amitabh Dubey, Costly Signals and the Termination of Separatist Wars (in progress)
- Pararaja Duraiswamy, The Politics of Structural Adjustment: Institutional Analysis on Two Cases: Indonesia and India (1994)
- Shubhana (Bumba) Mukherjee, Five Essays on Corruption (in progress)
- Matt Nelson, Making Sense of Property Rights: Land, Law, and Local Politics in the Punjab, 1849-1999 (in progress)
- Ali Nizamuddin, Liberalization, Relative Bargaining Power, and State-Multinational Relations: Japanese Automobile Investments in India, Indonesia, and Mali (in progress)
- Farzana Shaikh, Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947 (1990)
- Shylahri Shankar, Dangerous Liaisons: Courts, Religion, and Secularist Democracies (in progress)
- Shefali Trivedi, From Movement to Party: Caste Networks, Mobilization, and Participation in South India (in progress)
- Shyama Venkateswar, Hindu Nationalism in India: the Impact of Political and Social Realignments (1997)
Religion
- Carla Grace Bellamy, Hussain Tekri between Muslims and Hindus (in progress)
- Elizabeth Benard, Chinnamasta: The Aweful Buddhist and Hindu Tantric Goddess (1990)
- Catherine Benton, A Study of Kamadeva in Indian Story Literature (1991)
- Varuni Bhatia, Vernacular Puranas and the Remaking of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Bengal (in progress)
- Barbara Gombach, Ancillary Stories in the Sanskrit Mahabharata (1999)
- David Gray, The Chakrasamvara Tantra (1999)
- Laura Harrington, A View of Manjusri: Wisdom, Monasteries and Society in 8th - 12th Century India and Tibet (in progress)
- Jim Hartzell, Tantric Yoga (1997)
- Marina Illich, The Biography of Rolpay Dorje (in progress)
- James Lochtefeld, Haridwara, Haradwara, Gangadwara: The Construction of Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place (1992)
- Joseph Loizzo, Chandrakirti's Pradipoddyotana (in progress)
- Timothy Lubin, Consecration and Ascetical Regimes: A History of Hindu Vrata, Diksa, Upanayana, and Brahmacarya (1994)
- Anne Murphy, The Material of Sikh History (2005)
- Paul Nietupski, The Development of Buddhist Monastacism (1993)
- Christian Novetzke, Turning the Temple: The Marathi Legacy of Namdev and his Contemporaries (2003)
- Andrea M. Pinkney, Sarvatra Prasada: Human-Divine Exchange in Indian Sectarian Traditions (in progress)
- Kelly Pemberton, Women, Ritual Life, and the Sufi Shrine in North India (Fall 2000)
- John Pettit, The Thought of Mipam Rimpoche: Reconciling Madhyamika and Great Perfection (1998)
- Teena Umakant Purohit, Formations of Canon and Identity: Ginans and the Ismail Community (in progress)
- Laura Smith, Tsong Khapa's Innovations in Madhyamika Thought (in progress)
- Travis LaMar Smith, Secrets of the Sacred City: Tantra in the Puranic Mahatmya Literature on Varanasi (in progress)
- Kevin Trainor, The Relics of the Buddha: A Study of the Cult of Relic Veneration in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition of Sri Lanka (1990)
- Rupa Viswanath, 'The Pariah Problem:' Missionaries, the Administration of 'Untouchables,' and the Elaboration of Neutrality in Colonial South India, 1885-c. 1918 (in progress)
- Christian Wedemeyer, Vajrayana and its Doubles: A Critical Historiography, Exposition, and Translation of the Tantric Works of Aryadeva (1999)
- Tom Yarnall, The Creation Stage of Unexcelled Yoga Tantra (in progress)
- Serenity Young, Dreams in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Biography (1990)
Urban Planning
- Sangeetha Purushothaman, Grassroots Women's Movements in India: Networking and State Policy (1994)
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