Inquiries
All Inquires be Directed to the President or a member of the Governing Council. Membership inquiries be addressed to the Treasurer
PRESIDENT:
- BhuDev Sharma, Professor
Clark Atlanta University, CAU Box 764
223, James P. Brawley Dr
SW, ATLANTA, GA-30314, USA
(Residence: 2495 D Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA)
Contact Number: 404-248-9494 (H)
404-880-6912 (O)
Fax : 404-880-6909
Email : bsharma@cau.edu , sharmawaves@yahoo.co.in
VICE PRESIDENTS :
- Frederick M. Asher, Professor
Dept. of Art History, Uni. of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Contact Number: 612-624-4500
Email : asher@umn.edu
- George Cardona, Professor
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Contact Number: 215-898-7849
Email : cardonagj@earthlink.net
- K.L. Seshagiri Rao, Professor
Uni. of South Carolina
Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Columbia, SC 29208, US
Contact Number: 803-781-9438
Email : srao@eh.sc.edu
- Kapila Vatsyayan (Dr.), Former President,
India International Center, 85 SFS Flats, Gulmohar Enclave,
N. Delhi 110049, India
Contact Number: 91-11-26863657
Email : vatsyayan@vsnl.net
GENERAL SECRETARY :
- Amitabh Sharma, President
Asterix Consulting, Inc. & Aspire International
LLC, 2251 Spencers Way
Stone Mountain, GA 30087, USA
Contact Number: 770-270-1757
Email : aaam@bellsouth.net
SECRETARIES :
- Francis X. Clooney, Professor
Department of Theology, Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Contact Number: 617-552-3883
Email : clooney@bc.edu
- Hope Fitz, Professor of Philosophy
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, CT 06226, USA
Contact Number: 860-465-4604
Email : fitzh@easternct.edu
- Vasudha Narayanan, Professor
Department of Religion
University of Florida, Gainesville
FL 32611, USA
Contact Number: 352-392-1625
Email : vasu@ufl.edu
- Rajeshwari Pandharipande
Head, Department of Religious Studies
Professor of Linguistics, Uni. of Illinois
Urbana Champaign, IL 61801
Contact Number: 217-333-0946
Email : raj-pan@uiuc.edu
JOINT SECRETARIES :
- S. N. Balgangadhara, Professor
University of Ghent, Belgium
Email : balu@rug.ac.be
- Thomas Forsthoefel
Dept of Religious Studies
Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA 16546, USA
Contact Number: 814-824-2353
Email : tforsthoefel@mercyhurst.edu
- June McDaniel, Professor
Dept. of Phil. & Religion
College of Charleston, Charleston
SC 29424, USA
Contact Number: 843-953-5956
Email : mcdanielj@cofc.edu
- Bal Ram Singh
Professor & Director, Indic Center
Uni. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
MA 02747, USA
Contact Number: 508-999-8588
Email : bsingh@umassd.edu
PUPLIC RELATION OFFICER :
- Rita D. Sherma, (Dr.)
Chair, Council for Hindu Studies
School of Religion
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA 91711
Contact Number: 607-797-1940
Email : rsherma@earthlink.net
TREASURER
- Dhirendra A. Shah
780 Ullswater Cove, Alphretta
GA 30022, USA
Contact Number: 770-664-8779
Fax: 770-664-8780
Email : siaram@aol.com
DEPUTY TREASURER:
- Nitin Dixit
Sr. Consultant, Peoplesoft, Inc.
3777 Peachtree Rd. NE, #1732
Atlanta, GA-30319, USA
Contact Number: 678-923-6251
Email : dj_nitin@hotmail.com
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
- Arindam Chakrabarti, Professor, Dept. of Philosophy University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822
Contact Number: 808-956-7990
Email : arindam@hawaii.edu
- S. Cromwell Crawford, Professor & Chair
Dept. of Religion, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
HI 96822, USA
Contact Number: 808-956-4200
Email : scrawfor@hawaii.edu
- Rahul Peter Das, Professor & Director
Instit¸t f¸r Indologie, Martin-Luther-Universit”t
Halle-Wittenberg 06099, Halle, Germany
Contact Number: 49-4106-4443
Email : das.rp@t-online.de
- Surendra N. Dwivedi, Chair Professor
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
LSU Lafayette, LA 70504, USA
Contact Number: 318-262-5472
Email : dwivedi@louisiana.edu
- Robert P. Goldman, Professor of Sanskrit
Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
Contact Number: 510-642-4089
Email : sseas@socrates.berkeley.edu
- Hans Henrich Hock, Professor of Sanskrit
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Contact Number: 217-333-0357
Email : hhhock@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
- Huang Xingchuan, Professor of Philosophy
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Beijing, China - S.S. Rama Rao Pappu, Professor of Philosophy
Uni. Miami, Ohio 45056
Contact Number: 513-529-2439
Email : pappuss@muohio.edu
- Chhaya Rai, Dean and Professor of Philosophy
Rani Durgawati University
Jabalpur, India
Contact Number: 91-761-2316831
Email : rai_chhaya@yahoo.com
- Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion
St. Olaf College, Northfield
MN 55057, USA
Contact Number: 952-432-7875
Email : rambacha@stolaf.edu
- Vaman Rao, Distinguished Professor of Economics
Western Illinois Uni., Macomb
IL 61455, USA
Contact Number: 309-298-1321
Email : v-rao@wiu.edu
- Farley Richmond, Professor & Head
Dept. of Drama & Theatre, Uni. of Georgia
Athens, GA-30602
Contact Number: (706)542-2890
Email : richmond@arches.uga.edu
In India, all inquiries be directed to the Secretary or a Member of the India-Branch Governing Council
SECRETARY/TREASURER
- DR. SHASHI TIWARI (Mrs.)
(Reader in Sanskrit, Maitreyi College, D.U.)
54 Saakshara Apartments, A-3 Pashcim Vihar
New Delhi - 110063
Contact Number: (011) 25265237 (R)
Email : shashitiwari98@eth.net