White Lotus offers organic essential oils, hydrodistilled essences, CO2 extracts, attars, ruhs, and absolutes. We have done our best to select the highest quality oils available from our distilling and extracting colleagues around the world and hope that our customers, old and new, will find in our aromatic palette products that will serve their needs.

About Suzanne McMahon


Current Position: Secretary/CFO White Lotus Aromatics
Past Positions:
South Asia Librarian/ University of California, Berkeley 1994-2004, Technical Services Librarian/ Stanford University, 1985-1994
Education: M.A., South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1999; M.L.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1978; and  B.A., summa cum laude, German, University of Texas at Austin, 1976
Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, German
Interests: Hindi bhakti literature, Hir Varis Shah, Guru Granth Sahib, Sufi mystics

Awards

*Phi Beta Kappa

*Fulbright fellowship to Heidelberg, Germany, 1976-77
"Novalis and the reception of Shakuntala in early 19th century Germany"

*A.I.I.S. Fellowship to New Delhi, India 1978-79
Hindi language and literature

*LAUC Research Grants for Librarians, 1996-97
"South Asian Scripts on the Web: Standards, Software, and Archives"

Publications

*Editor. A Changing World: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.: 6th Annual Conference, June 14-17, 1991, Trinity Unversity, San Antonio, Texas. (New York: Haworth Press, 1992).

*Editor. If We Build It: Scholarly Communications and Networking Technologies: Proceedings of the NorthAmerican Serials Interest Group, Inc.: 7th Annual Conference, June 18-21, 1992, The University of Illinois at Chicago. (New York: Haworth Press,1993).

*"The Internet and Education about India." Education about Asia v. 1, no. 2 (Fall, 1996): 44-46.

*Internet India. In WebNet '96. (Charlottesville, Virginia:Association for Advancement of Computing in Education, 1996).

Exhibits

*Editor, A Hundred Harvests : the history of Asian studies at Berkeley: an exhibition in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery of Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley, summer 1997. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, [1997]

*Editor, Echoes of freedom : South Asian pioneers in California, 1899-1965: an exhibition in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery in the Bernice Lane Brown Gallery, July 1-September 30, 2001 [Berkeley, Calif.] : Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, c2001.


Collection Development Travel

 

Conference Presentations

*Webnet '96
"Internet India," paper presented Oct. 1996.

*13th Annual South Asia Conference
"Sufi Paradox in Hir Varis Shah," paper presented Feb. 15, 1998,
"South Asia Studies: Electronic Interfaces ," panel chaired Feb. 14, 1998

*14th Annual South Asia Conference:
"Social Reform and the Nation: Dialogic Heteroglossia in Premchand's
Sevasadan
," paper presented Feb. 1999

*28th Madison South Asia Conference:
"Representations of Love: ishq-i-haqiqi and ishq-i-majazi in Hir Varis Shah," paper presented Oct. 1999

Professional Service
*North American Serials Interest Group, Proceedings Editor, 1992-93
*South Asia Microfilm Project, Executive Board, 1995-97
*Association of Asian Studies, Asian Dissertations Online, 1997-
*CONSALD Chair, 1998-2000

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