Assistant Professor, On Leave AY 2013-14
Office: 727 Clemens Hall
Phone number: (716) 645-3419
E-mail address: walterha@buffalo.edu
Personal web page:  http://asianstudies.buffalo.edu/SouthAsiaAtUB/Home.html
Foundations of South Asian Studies (Humanities Institute Research Group):
http://asianstudies.buffalo.edu/SouthAsiaAtUB/FSAS.html,
http://www.humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/WorkshopSouthAsian.shtml

Literature and languages of North India and Central Asia; lexicography; Mughal and early colonial South Asian history; South Asian Islam and Sufism.

Fall 2014

ENG 576 – LITERATURE & SOCIETY (TRANSLATION)
Monday 12:30-3:10, Clemens 1032
Registration Numbers:  (A) 23606   (B) 23607

•  Diction and Dictionaries: How Hindi and Urdu Lexicography Defined South Asia.  A book-length study of the diverse genres and personas associated with the 700-year tradition of Urdu and Hindi lexicography in South Asia.  

• “On Equal Terms: The Equivocal Origins of an Early Mughal Indo-Persian Vocabulary.”  Forthcoming in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS).  
• "Languages as a Key to Understanding Afghanistan's Cultures [1]."  Education About Asia 17, no. 2 (2012), pages 42-46. Republished in 2014 as part of the National Geographic Online Education Collection.
  
• "Locating ‘Pashto’ in Afghanistan: A Survey of Secondary Sources." Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and its Neighbors, edited by Harold Schiffman, and Brian Spooner, 53-88. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

CV:  http://asianstudies.buffalo.edu/SouthAsiaAtUB/Hakala_CV.pdf