Faculty and Staff
The Mattoo Center for India Studies is home to a distinguished group of scholars whose teaching and research span linguistics, religious studies, philosophy, and the arts of India. Meet the core faculty, adjunct instructors, and research scholars who bring this expertise to Stony Brook University.
Faculty
S.N. Sridhar
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of Linguistics and India Studies
Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies
Email: s.sridhar@stonybrook.edu
Kamal Sridhar
Professor Emerita, Linguistics and India Studies
Associate Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies
Email: kamal.sridhar@stonybrook.edu
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanitites (2023 - present)
Arindam Chakrabarti
Inaugural holder of the Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities
William Chittick
Professor of Islamic Intellectual History
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies, Director
of Religious Studies
Andrew Nicholson
Assoc. Professor of Hinduism and Indian Philosophy
Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies, Director of South Asian Studies
Adjunct Faculty & Scholars
Aruna Sharma
Adjunct Faculty
Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies
Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music, Hindi
Email: aruna.sharma@stonybrook.edu
