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Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, MAldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

James H.-Cassing

Given Name:

James H.

Family Name:

Cassing

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Economics

Office:

4908 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-8746

Regional specialty:

South Asia

Email Address:

jcassing@pitt.edu

Region:

South Asia

Area of specialization:

International Trade Theory and Policy; Microeconomics; International Finance and Development; Mathematical Economics

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Iowa, 1975

Publications:

2009 "Transient Products but Persistent Trade Patterns" (with S. Husted), Journal of Economic Studies

2009 “Arab Republic of Egypt,” (with Saad Nassar, Gamal Siam and Hoda Moussa), Chapter 2 (pp.71-98) in Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa, K. Anderson and W. A. Masters (eds.), World Bank, Washington D.C.

2009 “Trade Dispute Diversion: The Economics of Conflicting Dispute Settlement Procedures between Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO,” Chapter 12 (pp. 303-330) in Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, James C. Hartigan, ed. Elsevier.

Edwin D.-Floyd

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Edwin D.

Family Name:

Floyd

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Classics

Office:

1520 Cathedral of Learning

Office phone number:

412-624-4483

Regional specialty:

South Asia

India

Email Address:

edfloyd@pitt.edu

Region:

South Asia

Area of specialization:

Greek Poetry; Greek and Indo-European Linguistics; Sanskrit; Linear B, Greek Phonology and Morphology; The Importance of the Pitch Accent in Greek Poetry

Biography:

Edwin Floyd is Professor of Classics. He joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1966, having taught previously at the College of William and Mary. His areas of specialization are Greek poetry, Greek and Indo-European linguistics, and Sanskrit. All three of these areas are combined in his work on Indo-European poetic formulas in Sanskrit (Rig-Veda and Mahabharata) and in Greek. In the case of inherited formulas in Greek, there is of course a certain focus on Homer, but his work in this area also ranges from archaic lyric poetry through the Late Antique and Byzantine periods. Homer, Sappho, Parmenides, Pindar, Bacchylides, Sophocles, Nonnos, and Cometas are among the authors on whom he has published, along with Linear B, Greek phonology and morphology, and the importance of the pitch accent in Greek poetry.

Qualifications:

PhD, Princeton University, 1965

John-Camillus

Given Name:

John

Family Name:

Camillus

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Business

Office:

338 Mervis Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-1599

Regional specialty:

South Asia

Email Address:

camillus@katz.pitt.edu

Region:

South Asia

Area of specialization:

Strategic Planning Management Control; Developing Organizational Identity, Mission, Vision, Goals and Competitive Strategy; Designing and Implementing the Supporting Organizational Architecture including the Framework for Resource Allocation, Organizational Structure, Planning and Control Processes, Performance Measures, and Cultural Norms

Biography:

John C. Camillus has been on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business since 1977. He has held the Donald R. Beall Endowed Chair in Strategic Management since 1991. In addition to teaching in the MBA and doctoral programs, Camillus has been extensively involved in designing and offering executive education programs for practicing managers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, he was Professor of Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Camillus served as Associate Dean - the chief operating officer and chief academic officer of the Katz School-from 1982 to 1990. He also served as Executive Associate Dean in 2007 and 2008. He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and serves on the boards of several other organizations including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. His public service has been recognized by the Senate of Pennsylvania and he received the Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award in 2006. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India's premier business school in 2011. Camillus has received numerous awards in recognition of teaching excellence, including the Best Teacher Award at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the University-wide Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Pittsburgh.

Qualifications:

Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1972

Publications:

2010 "A 'Good Business' Decision Framework." Rotman Magazine.

2009 "Good Business in Bad Times: The Strategic Advantages of Humanity in

Business Decisions." Effective Executive.

Robert M.-Hayden

Given Name:

Robert M.

Family Name:

Hayden

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Anthropology

Regional specialty:

South Asia

Email Address:

rhayden@pitt.edu

Region:

South Asia

Area of specialization:

Anthropology of Law and Politics; Ethnic & Religious Communal Coexistence and Conflict; Archaeology of Religion; Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies; Nationalism, Citizenship & Constitutionalism; Nomads; East Europe; India; Iroquois; U.S.A.; Comparative Research

Biography:

Robert Hayden is an anthropologist of law and politics, and has done extensive work on the reconstruction of states and nations in the former Yugoslavia, following extensive fieldwork there. He has also done fieldwork in India and among the Senecas of New York state, and has as well written on issues concerning the American legal system and its role in society. Professor Hayden also holds appointments on the faculty of the Law School and in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and is Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies.

Qualifications:

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1981

JD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978

Publications:

2013 From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans: Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011. Leiden: Brill

2013 “Fahrenheit 96.8: The Cold-Blooded Mass destruction of ‘Unsuitable” Books in Croatia in the 1990s” (review essay on Knjigocid: Uništavanje knjige u Hrvatskoj 1990-ih, by Ante Lešaja). Slavic Review

2013 “Imagined Commonalities: The Invention of a Late Ottoman ‘Tradition’ of Coexistence” (with Slobodan Naumović). American Anthropologist.

Joseph S.-Alter

Given Name:

Joseph S.

Family Name:

Alter

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Rank:

Professor

Staff

Department:

Anthropology

Office:

3302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-7508

Regional specialty:

South Asia

Email Address:

jsalter@pitt.edu

Region:

South Asia

Area of specialization:

Medical Anthropology; Nationalism and Colonialism; South Asia; Culture of Science

Staff Title:

Director

Biography:

Joseph S. Alter received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. His research specialization is in medical anthropology with interest in the relationship among religion, nationalism, health and the body in South Asia. Specific projects have focused on sport, sexuality, yoga, ayurvedic medicine, unani medicine and transnational transformations of medical knowledge. He is currently involved in a project to study the relationship among Nature Cure, ecology and worldview in contemporary India. A new project focuses on the relevance of biosemiotics to the development of ecologically grounded social theory. Teaching and research interests are combined by directing a semester-long study abroad program each Fall term, “Pitt in the Himalayas.”

Qualifications:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, 2012-2014

Publications:

2013. Sex, Askesis and the Athletic Perfection of the Soul: Physical Philosophy in the Ancient Mediterranean and South Asia. In Geoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnson eds. Subtle Bodies. Pp. 121-148. London: Routledge. 2013. Sri Yogendra: Magic, Modernity and the Burden of the Middle-Class Yogi. In Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg, eds. Gurus in Modern Yoga. P.p. 60 -80. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2012 “Sacrifice and Immortality: Theoretical Implications of Embodiment in Hathayoga.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 35 (2): 408-433.
2011 Moral Materialism: Sex and Masculinity in Modern India. Penguin: New Delhi.

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