Department for South Asian Studies
News and Upcoming Events
Welcome to the website of the South Asian Studies Department at the IAAW!
The South Asia Department consists of three working areas, the Department of South Asian Societies and Cultures (Prof. em Schneider), the ongoing MIDA research project (Prof. em. Mann) and the ERC research project DHARMA (Prof. Schmiedchen).
Office hours
South Asia secretariat
Wed-Fri, 10 am - 1 pm
Contact Birgit Hecht:
office.suedasien (at) hu-berlin.de
Tel.: 2093-66040
Staff Directory A-Z
Dr. Sadia Bajwa (Modern South Asian Studies, Student Advisory Service)
PD Dr. Tobias Delfs (visiting lecturer)
Dr. Monika Freier (Hindi language training)
Birgit Hecht (Office of Prof. Schneider and Prof. Schmiedchen)
Dr. Arshi Javaid (Einstein Junior Fellow)
Dr. Faiza Muhammad Din (Urdu language training)
Prof. Dr. Annette Schmiedchen (DHARMA)
Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider (South Asian Societies and Cultures)
Dr. Salma Siddique (DFG individual project)
Dr. Priyam Sinha (Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow)
Akila Somachandra (student assistant)
Dr. Mateeullah Tareen (Urdu language training/parental leave replacement)