Robert M. Hayden is Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs, and Director of the Center for Russian & East European Studies at Pitt, probably the only South Asianist to hold such a position. Dr. Hayden earned a J.D. and Ph.D. in anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was also seconded to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to work on Telugu with Narayana Rao and law in India with Marc Galanter. His dissertation was a study of the panchayat of a caste of nomadic Nandiwallas in Maharashtra, and he has also published on nomads in India. While most of his work for the past thirty years has been in eastern Europe he continues to do research in India, most recently on contested sharing of religious sites. Dr. Hayden’s theoretical work is in political and legal anthropology, and on ethno-national conflict and accommodation.

Dr. Hayden’s personal web site is
http://www.pitt.edu/~rhayden/RMH_Professional_page/
Main_page.html.

He also maintains a website for an international and interdisciplinary comparative study that he is heading, on competitive sharing of religious sites:
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/antagonistictolerance/AT_Main_Page.html.