Sarah Beckham

Associate Director of the Center for South Asia, Academic Director of the South Asia Summer Language Institute

sbeckham@wisc.edu

(608)262-3209

203 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Dr. Sarah Beckham specializes in sound systems of South Asian languages, with a research focus on contact linguistics and loanword phonology in Marathi.  In addition, she is a co-founding member of the Punjabi Boliyan Research Initiative (PBRI), which documents shifts in post-Partition Punjabi in Pakistan. Dr. Beckham teaches Contemporary Issues in South Asia, Intro to Ecolinguistics, and courses on language, identity, and human rights for the IS Major.