Andrea Farran

Andrea Farran, Academic Director and Programme Advisor of the South Asian Studies minor concentration, is Associate Professor in South Asian Religions and Associate Member in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. She first studied South Asian societies as an undergraduate at McGill in the Faculty of Religious Studies (B.A.); then in India (Banaras Hindu University, Adv. Diploma in Hindi) and the United States (M.A., University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Ph.D., Columbia University). She has taught in India (Antioch College and S.I.T.), and Singapore (National University of Singapore); her research languages are Hindi-Urdu and Sanskrit. Since 2019, Professor Farran serves as the Vice-President and treasurer of CSASA-ACESA (Canadian South Asian Studies Association-Association canadienne d’études sud-asiatiques). Her current SSHRC IDG funded research, "Imperial Infrastructure and Himalayan Pilgrimage in India's 'Land of Gods' (1808-2013)," focuses on religious travel and the history of cartography in late colonial India. In 2023, Professor Farran was the recipient of the Arts Undergraduate Award for “Most Outstanding Professor” as well as the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Associate Professor).