India's young liberal arts and sciences university in Sonipat, built by collective philanthropy and already home to remarkable scholars.
13 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Vice-Chancellor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Thank you for a scholar's map of how Indian firms innovate, from jugaad to systematic innovation, and for bringing that discipline to Ashoka's next chapter as Vice-Chancellor.
Chancellor and Professor of History
Department of History
Thank you for Awadh in Revolt and a historian's lifetime spent taking 1857 seriously, and for shepherding Ashoka from an idea into a university.
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Thank you for finding the Saraswati supercluster and for years of building Indian astronomy's institutions, from IUCAA to the classrooms of Ashoka.
Professor of Physics and Biology
Departments of Physics and Biology
Thank you for BharatSim and pandemic models that treated India's scale honestly, and for physics that moves easily between cells and cities.
Professor of English and Director, Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Department of English
Thank you for Infinite Variety and for teaching that the history of desire in India is longer, stranger, and kinder than its present.
Professor of English
Department of English
Thank you for Masala Shakespeare and The First Firangis, and for showing that becoming Indian has always been a story worth telling well.
Professor and Head, Department of Economics; Founding Director, Centre for Economic Data and Analysis
Department of Economics
Thank you for measuring caste and gender discrimination with an economist's precision, and for building CEDA so the numbers reach the public conversation.
Professor of Environmental Studies and History
Departments of Environmental Studies and History
Thank you for writing India's environmental history with elephants, forests, and politics all in the frame, and for patient institution building from Teen Murti to Ashoka.
Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Anthropology
Departments of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Anthropology
Thank you for ethnography that stays with the displaced, from the Narmada valley to Delhi's streets, and for teaching environment as a question of justice.
Professor of Philosophy and Sanskrit
Department of Philosophy
Thank you for bringing Saiva and Nyaya debates about the self alive in Sanskrit and English, and for making Ashoka a serious home for classical Indian philosophy.
Distinguished Professor of History and Politics
Departments of History and Political Science
Thank you for a lifetime of public service carried with grace, from Raj Bhavan to the classroom, and for giving Ashoka's students a living link to the conscience of the republic.
Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for three decades of computer vision at IIT Delhi and for asking, before it was fashionable, what digital identity and welfare technology owe to fairness and privacy.
Sunanda and Santimay Basu Professor of Astrophysics and Head, Department of Physics
Department of Physics
Thank you for AstroSat's science and years of chasing pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, and for anchoring astrophysics at a young liberal arts university.
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