LADAKH STUDIES 12, Autumn 1999 - International Association for ...

NEWS FROM MEMBERS
• Monisha Ahmed and her husband have become the proud parents of a girl . . .
• Pascale Dollfus and the CNRS research group on the Himalaya (UPR 299) have shifted to a
new address. See below for details.
• Smriti Srinivas has moved to the Division of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio, USA as an Assistant Professor of Comparative/Cultural Studies of Religion.
She began her appointment there on October 1, 1999. She was earlier at the University of
Maryland, College Park, USA as a Mellon Fellow, Department of Sociology (1998-99) and a
Rockefeller Fellow, Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, New York University, USA
(1997-98). She is currently completing her manuscript on Bangalore city entitled "Landscapes
of Metropolitan Memory" (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). Her new address:
Smriti Srinivas, Assistant Professor, Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities, 308
Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1311. Tel:
614-292-0389. Fax: 614-292-6707. E-mail: srinivas.2@osu.edu
• Long-time member Tim Mallon has received a Ph.D. degree from Manchester
Metropolitan University for his thesis on The ecology and conservation of mountain ungulates in
Ladakh, India. The abstract can be found elsewhere in this newsletter.
• Martin Sökefeld has assumed a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is teaching general anthropology with
regional focus on South Asia and has just embarked on a new research project on Alevi politics
of identity in a transnational context.
• Martijn van Beek has been appointed as “lektor” (Associate Professor) at the Department of
Ethnography and Social Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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