Sarah Beckham
Position title: Associate Director: Center for South Asia, Academic Director: South Asia Summer Language Institute
Email: sbeckham@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-3209
Address:
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.