Emeritus Members

Evelyne Accad

Professor Emeritus, Department of French. Dr. Accad's research interests include contemporary, Arab women's contribution to literature and Arab feminist writing; gender, war and non-violent alternatives; creative writing.

Pallassana R. Balgopal

Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work. Dr. Balgopal's research centers on immigrant families, HIV Aids in South Asia, social problems such as alcoholism, domestic violence, the elderly, etc.

Shyamala Balgopal

Assistant Professor of Library Administration and Reference Librarian of the Asian Library at University of Illinois.

Vincent J. Bellafiore

Professor Emeritus, Department of Landscape Architecture. Dr. Bellafiore's research interests and expertise include the evolution of urban form, the history of town planning, adaptive use of urban space, and vegetation policy and guidelines for small communities.

Charles Capwell

Associate Professor, School of Music. Dr. Capwell's scholarship has focused on music in northern India, particularly the region of Bengal, and has dealt with the folk music of the religious sect Baul . He is the author of the book, The Music of the Bauls of Bengal. More recently, he has shifted his research focus to Indonesia where he has done fieldwork on popular music in Indonesian Islam as a Fulbright Research Scholar and as an awardee of the Asian Cultural Council.

Stephen P. Cohen

Professor Emeritus, Departments of Political Science and History. Dr. Cohen is a Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. His current project is a book-length project that will examine the social, economic, political, and strategic factors that will shape the future of Pakistan. Other interests include the study of India's likely emergence as a significant economic, military, and political power within the next decade; Pakistan and U.S. policies toward Pakistan.

C. Ernest Dawn

Professor Emeritus, Department of History. Dr. Dawn's research focuses on Middle Eastern history

Hans Henrich Hock

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Sanskrit, the Classics, and English as an International Language. Dr. Hock's research and teaching interests prominently focus on Sanskrit, its relation to other South Asian languages, and on ancient Iranian languages (Old Persian and Avestan).

Lewis D. Hopkins

Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Associate Dean College of Fine and Applied Arts. Dr. Hopkins research interests include: how has urban development been affected by plans?; how can we choose appropriate geographic, functional, organizational, and temporal scopes for plans?; can computing tools improve collaborative sketch planning; computing tools for sketch planning and urban modeling and effects of urban infrastructure on urban form.

Braj B. Kachru

Center for Advanced Study and LAS Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Education, English as an International Language, and Comparative Literature. Dr. Kachru's research interests include sociolinguistics, World Englishes, multilinguialism, and language and ideology.

Yamuna Kachru

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and English as an International Language. Dr. Kachru's Research interests include syntax, pragmatics, South Asian linguistics, discourse analysis, second language acquisition, varieties of English around the world, and Hindi language and literature.

Harold E. Kauffman

Professor Emeritus, Department of Crop Sciences, and Interim Assistant Dean of International Activities. Dr. Kauffman is an expert on biodiversity in South Asia.

Blair Kling

Professor Emeritus, Department of History. Dr. Kling's current research focuses on business, labor, and society in twentieth-century India and a case study of the steel city of Jamshedpur.

R. Barry Lewis

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology. Dr. Lewis' primary research focus is the ethnohistory and archaeology of late medieval and early modern South India.

Erica F. McClure

Professor, Department of Educational Psychology. Dr. McClure's current projects include content analysis and grammatical analysis of children's stories written in English and Spanish, the description of Romanian-Bulgarian codeswitching, the description of Assyrian-English codeswitching, the description of the role of the maintenance of Assyrian language skills in the maintenance of Assyrian ethnic identity.

Bruno Nettl

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and School of Music. Dr. Nettl's principal interests include ethnomusicology; musical cultures of Native American peoples, Iran, and South India; theory and methodology of ethnomusicology; ethnomusicological study of Western classical music culture.

George Ordal

Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Professor of Basic Medical Science, College of Medicine.

M.A. Pai

Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Anand Pillay

Swanlund Chair and Professor, Department of Mathematics.  Dr. Pillary's area of interest and specialization are model theory, and applications to algebra, geometry and number theory.  Professor Pillay was awarded a Humboldt Research Award recently.

Gary G. Porton

Professor, Department of Religion, Department of History, and Comparative Literature. Dr. Porton also holds the Drobny Professor of Talmudic Studies and Judaism. His major research interests include "the other" in Judaism, rabbinic ideas of the gentile, conversion in Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish biblical exegesis, literary studies of rabbinic literature, the feminine in rabbinic literature, and American liberal Judaism.

Mastura Raheel

Professor Emeritus, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Raheel's research emphasis centers on textile chemistry and textile physics, namely: (1) structure-property relationships in fiberous systems; (2) chemical finishing of textiles to enhance performance (3) protective apparel systems; and (4) utilization of agricultural biomass to produce textile fibers.

Ranga Rao

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics.

Constantin A. Rebeiz

Professor Emeritus, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Rebeiz's research interests focus on chemistry and biochemistry of the greening process; development of photodynamic herbicides, insecticides, cancericides; structure-function studies; intermediary metabolism and plant yield; bioengineering of photosynthetic membranes; cell cytoecology; chemical and biochemical three-dimensional modeling. Professor Rebeiz is also interested in Middle Eastern politics and development.

Michael Shapiro

Professor Emeritus, Department of English, and Director of the Drobny Program in Jewish Culture and Society.

M. Mobin Shorish

Professor Emeritus, Department of Education Policy Studies. Dr. Shorish's current proects include the development and expansion of education in the Persian-speaking world: Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajilistan. A new area of research for Professor Shorish will be post-war reconstruction of education in very poor counties and education in warring societies.

Charles C. Stewart

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor, Department of History. Dr. Stewart's research interests include 19th century West Africa, Islam in the 18th through 20th centuries, and African historiography.

Zohreh Sullivan

Professor, Department of English. Dr. Sullivan's areas of interest are modern British literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the literature of diaspora.

Burton E. Swanson

Professor Emeritus of Rural Development, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics.

Marvin G.Weinbaum

Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science. Dr. Weinbaum continues to write on the foreign and domestic policies of Afghanistan and Pakistan for academic publications while employed full time as the Afghanistan and Pakistan analyst at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in Washington.

Klaus G. Witz

Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Witz's research interests include qualitative research methods in the social sciences, philosophy of the self, perennial philosophy. Professor Witz is the author of The Supreme Wisdom of the Upanishads: An Introduction, Delhi, India: Motilal Banarasidass.