NYU Global Asia Administration
Calista LaMotte is Global Program Administrator in the NYU Department of History. She is in charge of all Center operations in New York and manages our Luce Foundation grant funds for Global Asia on three NYU campuses.
Tansen Sen is a Professor of History and Director of the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai. He specializes in Asian history and religions and has special scholarly interests in India-China interactions, Indian Ocean trade, Buddhism, and Silk Road archeology.
Mark Swislocki is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Global Asia Initiative, NYU-Abu Dhabi. He specializes in the history of China. His research focuses on the environmental history of southwest China, and the history of nutrition, critical animal studies, and the environment. Profile
David Ludden is the Emeritus Founding Director of the Center for Global Asia in New York and Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the NYU Department of History. His work focuses broadly on histories of globalization and agrarian environments. Here is his homepage.
Project Leaders
Heather Ruth Lee is Undergraduate Coordinator of Humanities and Assistant Professor of History, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Assistant Professor, NYU; and leader of the New York Global Asia City Project.
The leadership team for the Early Modern Empires project is Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (Assistant Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic), Susanah Romney (Associate Professor of History), and Yijun Wang (Assistant Professor of History)
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Dina M. Siddiqi (Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies) is the leader of our project on Globalizing Nation-Space, focusing on Bangladesh.
Tatiana Linkhoeva (Assistant Professor of History) is leading a project on “Global Radical Asia,” which will yield a team taught course in Spring 2023 (with Heather Ruth Lee at NYU-Shanghai and Masha Kirasirova (Assistant Professor of History) at NYU Abu Dhabi.
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Shobana Shankar, Professor of History, Stony Brook University, is leading our Afro-Asia Interations Project
which also features Cassie Washington, Graduate Student in the NYU History Department
Ismail Fajrie Alatas (Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies) is leading our project on The Mobility of Relgion
