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India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Pune, India

Program faculty & staff

Click to meet the research guides and learn about possible areas of independent study!

 

Sucheta Paranjpe

Program Director

Is responsible for oversight of the program, in particular all academic matters, grades, faculty advisors, and other curricular matters.  Also, teaches the fall Marathi language class.

Farhat Haq

Faculty coordinating representative, Fall 2012

Monmouth College, Political Science

Sarah Fischer

Student Alumni Fellow, Fall 2012

Brian Caton

Faculty coordinating representative, Fall 2013

Luther College, History

Hemant Apte

Faculty & Academic Advisor

Teaches the Public Health in India class, and together with the Program Director, serves as an Academic Advisor for student independent study projects.

Anurekha Chari-Wagh

Faculty

Teaches the Gender, Culture and Globalization class.

Shrikant Paranjpe

Faculty

Teaches the Contemporary India class.

Arundhati Vishwasrao

Faculty

Teaches the Introduction to Indian Environment class.

Sunila Gondhalekar

Faculty

Assists with the teaching of the Marathi language class.

Patsy Francis

Office Administrator

Oversees all aspects of the program office operations, including working with the Program Director to plan the semester schedule, managing program finances and financial operations, overseeing the IT infrastructure, and supervising program staff.

Sheetal Awate

Student Services Assistant

Manages the homestay family program, plans co-curricular activities such as field trips and the weekend retreat, and helps students adapt to the local culture. 

Tukaram Ghute

Office Attendant

Works in the ACM Pune office, with a variety of tasks and office maintenance.

Subhan Sayyed

Office Attendant

Works in the ACM Pune office, with a variety of tasks and office maintenance.

India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

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Christian Novetzke The ACM India program was the keystone in my career as a scholar of South Asia. I learned to live in India and to conduct real field research on the program, while I was introduced to key scholars and intellectuals in Pune, and this gave me inspiration for future work. At the time, it was perhaps the only opportunity in the American academy to study Marathi, and the program gave me a firm foundation in that language. My experience made it possible for me to enter Harvard University as a funded Masters student, and then to complete a PhD at Columbia University in the History of Religions. As a faculty member first at the University of Pennsylvania then at the University of Washington, I have drawn on my ACM experiences and contacts, which are now vital to my work. As someone who has run study abroad programs to India, I see the ACM India Studies program as a model template that I continue to hold in high regard.

—Christian Novetzke, India, 1991

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