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Adjunct Professor, South Asia Studies
Chief Policy Advisor for South Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia, Committee on Foreign Relations (Majority Staff), U.S. Senate Contact Details
jonahblank@earthlink.net
Course Taught
The Politics of Religion in South Asia: Community and Communalism in Sociological Context EducationPh.D, Harvard University (1998); M.A., Harvard University (1993); B.A., Yale University (1986) Expertise
India, Social Anthropology, U.S. Government BackgroundJonah Blank is Chief Policy Advisor for South Asia, Central Asia, and Archipelagic Southeast Asia to the Democratic Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the first anthropologist to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the community of Musta'li Ismaili Muslims, doing his research in Mumbai, Surat, Karachi, Lahore and other sites in India and Pakistan. He received his doctorate from Harvard University, and has taught anthropology there and at Georgetown University. PublicationsMullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras (1991).
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana through India (1992).
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Ajit Mohan
Cochin, India
M.A., Global Theory and History; M.B.A., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Prior to SAIS, I had spent five years in the management-consulting industry in Asia, working with regional and multinational enterprises. My decision to study at SAIS was driven by a strong belief that, to be successful, business leaders need to have an intimate understanding of the economic and political environments they operate in. No other graduate school in the world brings together such a compelling curriculum in international politics and economics. What enhances this experience is the school's location in Washington, D.C. - SAIS students hold ringside seats for some of the most dramatic transitions currently underway in the international system." |
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