Walter Hakala

Assistant Professor,
Office: 315 Clemens Hall
Phone number: (716) 645-3419
E-mail address: walterha@buffalo.edu
Personal web page: http://ubwp.buffalo.edu/southasiaatub

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

Fall 2016

“Romance Traditions in Asia”

MoWeFr 12:00PM - 12:50PM

Norton 210

MoWeFr 2:00PM - 2:50PM

Capen 108

“Lexicography of the languages of South Asia from c. 1750 to the present“ for The Cambridge World History of Lexicography

Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Awarded The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2015.
“From Sepoy to Film Star: Indian Interpreters of an Afghan Mythic Space,” forthcoming in Modern Asian Studies (2015).
“The Authorial Problem in the _Khāliq Bārī_ 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), pages 371-88.
A Masnavi in Praise of Coffee: [Prepared] at the bidding of Nawab ‘Umdat Al-Mulk Amir Khan Bahadur by Shah Hatim (1699-1783).” Translated with M.A. Naru. Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 4 (2014), pages 425-27.
“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.
"Languages as a Key to Understanding Afghanistan's Cultures." 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.

The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2015
Faculty Fellow, Honors College, 2015-2017
University at Buffalo Office of the Vice President for Research / Humanities Institute Seed Money in the Arts and Humanities Fund, 2015
University at Buffalo Office of the Vice President for Research/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, fall 2013.