Research Volunteers

Prof. Deepak Kumar teaches history of science and education at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His interest in history of science emerged while studying agricultural knowledge in the colonial times. He is known for his book Science and the Raj (2nd ed., OUP, 2006). In addition he has edited and co-edited seven books dealing with history of technology, health, environment and education. He has published about 40 articles relating to these areas and he is currently interested in writing a monograph on science in agriculture.

Dr. Dusan Deak is working as Associate Professor in Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, at the Department of Comparative Religion. He works on social history of South Asian religious communities, particularly those of the Deccan and its Marathi speaking areas. Among the areas of his research interests are mainly social and religious traditions and developments that pertain to the presence of the Muslims in rural areas of Maharashtra, to their saints and their followers, all from the perspectives of history, history from below, memory studies, and anthropology of religion.

Prof. G.C. Maheshwari, born on June 7, 1950) has been Dean and Professor of Management (Finance, Accounting and Strategy Area) of Faculty of Management Studies, The M.S. University of Baroda. A Graduate (1970) and post-graduate (1972), (securing first rank in both) in Commerce from Agra University (1972), he obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Delhi (1984). His Doctoral Research on Measurement of Business Income: A Study of Selected Corporate Enterprises in India was published as a book titled Business Income and Changing Prices (Academic Publications, Delhi).

Nancy Hatch Dupree is Executive Coordinator for the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU) in Kabul, Afghanistan, which opened its new facility in March 2013. Descriptions for ACKU activities and its holdings may be seen on their website – http://www.acku.edu.af/. Nancy Dupree grew up in Travancore (1920s+30s) where her father Duane Spencer Hatch, established a rural demonstration centre at Martandum that is still thriving. After completing her studies at Columbia University in New York, she worked in villages in Mexico and Costa Rica, in Sri Lanka, north India around New Delhi and Pakistan.

Dr. Ranjita Misra is a Professor and Director of the Public Health Practice [MPH] program in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at WVU School of Public Health. She earned her Ph.D. in Health Services from Old Dominion University in Virginia. As a health disparities researcher, her research focus is on diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and CVD and community/clinic based interventions. She combines clinical and non-clinical risk factors (individual, psychosocial, environmental/ contextual) to explore disparities in prevalence and management of chronic diseases in multi-ethnic populations.