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Ravi Rajan
Professor
srrajan@ucsc.edu
8314594158
Areas of expertise: Environmental Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Environmental History, World History, South Asian Studies, History of Science, Ethics
Biography, Education and Training
Ravi Rajan is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has served since his appointment in 1997. He has also served as Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and Visiting Professor at TERI University. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Delhi, and his doctorate at the Univ... more »
Professor, Artsbridge Director, Pavel Machotka Chair
Arts Division, Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD), Porter CollegePress Contact
Kathy Foley
Professor
foley@ucsc.edu
831-459-4189
Areas of expertise: Theater, Asian Music, Asian Studies, Direction (Theater), Folklore, South Asian Studies, Gamelan, Popular Culture, Dance
Biography, Education and Training
Kathy Foley is a professor of Theatre Arts and editor of Asian Theatre Journal with expertise in Asian theatre, performance, masks, puppetry and object theatre. She curates exhibitions of Asian masks and puppets. Performs Sundanese Wayang Golek internationally and has taught at Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Yonsei University (Seoul), University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), and University of Hawai'i (Manoa), as well as UCSC. She serves on the board of UNIMA (Union International de la Mar... more »
Associate Professor, Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
Literature Department, History of Consciousness Department, History Department, History of Art/Visual CultureAreas of expertise: South Asian Studies, European Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Religion and Secularism
Areas of expertise: Dance, Disability, Queer Studies, South Asian Studies
Biography, Education and Training
Cynthia is a Taiwanese American interdisciplinary artist who creates embodied art steeped in crip, queer, and feminist of color praxis. She is curious about chronic illness as a form of embodied training that contradicts dance's ableism, finding ways of sharing dance that depart from “the show must go on” urgency of theatrical production, and the creative possibilities of eco-crip embodiment, access aesthetics, and crip care webs. Their 2024 dance film moss time, crip time explo... more »
Areas of expertise: Ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, Food/Nutrition, Social Movements, South Asian Studies
Biography, Education and Training
I received my PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University in 2013, and was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University from 2013-2015. Prior to that, I received my Bachelors in Law (LLB) from the Faculty of Law at University of Delhi in 2001 and practised in the Supreme Court of India and the Gauhati High Court in Assam.
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