Research Fellows

Research Fellows

Prof. Dr. S. S. Bahulkar 

Professor Dr. S. S. Bahulkar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Sanskrit for more than 30 years, during which time he has been engaged in a variety of research projects. Both his research and teaching focus on Vedic Studies, Buddhist Studies, Ayurveda, and Classical Sanskrit Literature. For his Ph. D., he worked on the “Healing Practices in the Atharvaveda” and published his thesis under the title Medical Ritual in the Atharvaveda Tradition. He continued his research in that field and worked on the exegetical literature of the Atharvaveda. After having done his M. A. and Ph. D. in Sanskrit from the University of Pune (1970 – 1977), he conducted his postgraduate research at the Nagoya University, Japan where he began to study Tibetan and Japanese languages and Buddhist Tantric works in Sanskrit and Tibetan. He worked in the Deccan College, Pune (1979-81), the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune (1981-1993; 1995-2006; 2009) and the Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS), Sarnath (1993-95; 2006-2009; 2010-2012). 

He headed the Rare Buddhist Texts Research Department of CUTS and edited the celebrated Commentary Vimapalaprabhā on the Kālacakra Tantra (Vols. 2 and 3), the Journal Dhīḥ and some other Tantric works. He has visited a number of foreign countries in connection with teaching, research and conferences. He has also worked as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada (1993), Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany (1998-99), Harvard University, Cambridge, U. S. A. (2010), Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford University, U. K. (2014) and Philipps Universität, Marburg Germany (2013, 2014, 2016). He has recently been appointed member on the International Advisory Board of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre, U.S.A. In recent years (2012–14), he worked with (the Late) Prof. Michael Hahn at the Philipps Universität, Marburg on some Buddhist narrative and other texts. He has written and edited eleven books and has published fifty five articles.

He is associated with several academic Institutes, namely, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vedaśāstrottejakasabhā, Vaidika Saṁśodhana Maṇḍala, and the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Pune. He is a founder member and office bearer of the Bṛhanmahārāṣṭra Prācyavidyā Pariṣad, Saṁvidyā Institute of Cultural Studies and Deshana Institute of Buddhist and Allied Studies, (all in Pune). He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Pune (renamed as Sāvitrībai Phule Pune University) and the K. J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, Mumbai. He worked as Honorary Secretary of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (March 2015 – February 2017) and is Editor of the Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. Presently he is ICCR Chair for Indian Studies at the Tel Aviv University, Israel and is working at theDepartment of East Asian Studies.

Prof. David M. K. Sheinin

David M. K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University (Canada) and the winner of the Trent University Distinguished Research Award (2017). The Student's Guide to Canadian Universities named him "Favourite Professor" at Trent. In 2017, Benjamin Bryce and David edited _Making Citizens in Argentina_ (University of Pittsburgh Press). In 2015, David edited Sports Cultures in Latin American History (University of Pittsburgh Press). With Raanan Rein, David co-edited Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sports and the Making of the Americas (Brill, 2014) and in 2013, the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies awarded David The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize (best book in 2011-2012) for Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War (University Press of Florida, 2012).  The prize committee found that "like the best books in our field do, Consent of the Damned offers specific insights on a time and place (the Dirty War and its aftermath in Argentina) but also speaks to broader questions, in this case, the persistent challenges to establishing and maintaining an authentic and truly effective global human rights regime."

In 2005, David was appointed a member of the Argentine National Academy of History. In 2011 he was named "Amigo de Eloisa" by Eloisa Cartonera.  His books and articles include two short books on boxing and Argentine society, El boxeador poeta_ [The Boxer Poet] (Eloisa Cartonera, 2010) and El boxeador incrédulo [The Incredulous Boxer] (Eloisa Cartonera, 2011). David has held the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (Library of Congress/American Historical Association), and in 2008 was named Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lester D. Langley and David are co-editors of the University of Georgia Press "United States and the Americas" Series.