SAMP Executive Committee

The SAMP Executive Committee consists of four elected members and three ex-officio members.

Elected Members

Abhijit Bhattacharya, SAMP Chair, 2024-2026,Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

C. Ryan Perkins, PhD, Librarian Representative, 2022-2024, Stanford University

Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Faculty representative, 2024-2026, Columbia University.

Rajarshi Ghose, PhD, 2022-2024, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Adnan Malik, Immediate Past SAMP Chair, 2021-2023, University of California, Berkeley

Ex-officio Members

Gautham M. Reddy, Emory University (CONSALD Chair)

Marlies Bauhofer, Center for Research Libraries

Jonathan Loar, Library of Congress Representative and Secretary of SAMP

Ex-officio members of the Executive Committee are:

In addition, the immediate past Chair serves on the committee for one year after the expiration of his or her term.

Featured: Unique Urdu and Hindi Collection

Prof. Robert Phillips, lecturer for the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University, teaches courses in Hindi-Urdu and South Asian Studies, and has used both South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) and CRL resources to support different research, writing, and teaching projects.

Accessing Āmukha in SAMP’s holdings offered an opportunity to incorporate the crucial - but often less-collected - genre of the little magazine into his research on Hindi modernism and a subsequent conference presentation.