Walter Nils Hakala
Walter Nils Hakala
Guest Professor , Humanities & Social Sciences
- B.A., University of Virginia, 2001
- M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2004
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2010
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Work Experience
- Director, Asian Studies Program, University at Buffalo, 2018 to present
- Associate Professor, Department of English and Asian Studies Program, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 2017 to present
- Assistant Professor, Department of English and Asian Studies Program, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 2011 to 2017
- Visiting Scholar, Kyungpook National University Global Summer School, 2016
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Selected Publications
- “From Sepoy to Film Star: Indian Interpreters of an Afghan Mythic Space,” Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 5 (2016): 1501-1546.
- “On Equal Terms: The Equivocal Origins of an Early Mughal Indo-Persian Vocabulary,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Third Series) 25, no. 2 (2015): 209-27.
- “The Authorial Problem in the Khaliq Bari of ‘Khusrau’,” Indian Economic & Social History Review 51, no. 4 (2014): 481-96.
- “A Sultan in the Realm of Passion: Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Delhi,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 4 (2014): 371-88.
- “Languages as a Key to Understanding Afghanistan’s Cultures,” Education About Asia 17, no. 2 (2012): 42-46. Republished in 2014 as part of the National Geographic Online Education Collection.