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India: Culture and Development

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Azim Khan, Academic Director

Azim A. Khan earned an MA in Human Rights from the University of London in 2005, an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in 1997 from Aligarh Muslim University and an LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) with distinction in Constitutional Law, from the University of Lucknow in 1994. For seven years, he taught law at a number of Indian universities. His previous experience in the development field includes working as consultant and researcher with several NGOs and international organizations.

Azim has previously been affiliated with SIT as a facilitator of the World Learning and Ford Foundation’s Leadership for Social Justice (LSJ) Program in Washington DC. In 2007, he was awarded a Scholar of Peace fellowship by Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his research in Gujarat.  More recently he was a media specialist in the South Asia bureau of the US government.

Maria Stallone, Academic Director

In 1993, Maria Stallone was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Fellowship to Varanasi, India, which began her Asian experience. Ms. Stallone spent a year as a Rotary fellow studying Hindi and Indian classical music, during which time she also traveled extensively visiting Rotary projects throughout the country.  After completing her fellowship, she returned to India and earned a degree in classical music at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. In 1997, she took her skills and went on to complete an M Mus. in Ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.  Ms. Stallone’s professional experiences have ranged from coordinating a women's self-esteem building project for an NGO in Pakistan, working in the South Asian Library at Columbia University in New York, to developing and directing study abroad programs in South and Southeast Asia. She is currently completing her first publication; an illustrated ethnogeneology which examines the concepts of tradition and transition in a Jaipur noble family. Ms. Stallone has been Academic Director for SIT Study Abroad in India since fall 2003.