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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"
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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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