Faculty and Staff
![S.N. Sridhar](/commcms/india/people/_images/SSridhar.jpg)
S.N. Sridhar
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of Linguistics and India Studies
Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies
![Kamal Sridhar](/commcms/india/people/_images/Sridhar_Kamal.jpg)
Kamal Sridhar
Professor Emerita, Linguistics and India Studies
Associate Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies
![Ryan Hunter](/commcms/india/people/_images/Ryan%20Hunter%202nd%20headshot%20for%20MCIS%20website.jpg)
Ryan Hunter
Assistant to the Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies
631.632.9742
![Sthaneshwar Timalsina](/commcms/india/people/_images/Sthaneshwar%20Timalsina%20resized.jpg)
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classsical Indic Humanities
2023 to present
![Arindam Chakrabarti](/commcms/india/people/_images/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-17%20at%2012.21.07%20PM.png)
Arindam Chakrabarti
Inaugural holder of the Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities
2018-20
![William Chittick](/commcms/india/people/_images/Chittick_William.jpg)
William Chittick
Professor of Islamic Intellectual History
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Director of Religious Studies
![Andrew Nicholson](/commcms/india/people/_images/Nicholson%20SVC%20headshot.jpg)
Andrew Nicholson
Associate Professor of Hinduism and Indian Philosophy
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies,
Director of South Asian Studies
Adjunct Faculty
![Aruna Sharma](/commcms/india/people/_images/Sharma_Aruna.jpg)
Aruna Sharma
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music, Hindi
Research Faculty and Scholars