Project Director and Staff Page

Project Director and Staff

Project Director and Staff

Project Director and Website Editor-in-Chief (Karl J. Schmidt):

The director of Project South Asia and editor-in-chief of the PSA Website is Dr. Karl J. Schmidt, Director of International Programs and Associate Professor of History at South Dakota State University. From 1994 to 2003, Dr. Schmidt taught at Missouri Southern State University, where his specialty was the history of South Asia. His publications include An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History (London and Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995). Dr. Schmidt has considerable overseas research experience in both archives and museums, in England as well as in India and Pakistan. He is also editor of Teaching South Asia: An Internet Journal of Pedagogy.

Editorial and Research Assistant:

Klaire Lockhart-Beilke

Former Editorial and Research Assistants:

Pamela M. Mense (Spring 2003); Mac Kenney II, Ruschelle Jones, and Mandy Henry (Fall 2002); Jesse Dickerson and Michelle Vandergrift (2001-2002); Ivy Hagedorn and Anna Bess Chambers (2001); Melanie A. Cox and Erica N. Mattlage (2000)

Current Interns:

None

Former Interns:

April Stanley (Spring 2002)
Ivy Hagedorn (Spring 2001)
Chellee Wilson (Spring 2001)
Jesse Dickerson (Fall 2000)
Michelle Olson (Fall 2000)
Jessica Whitehead (Fall 2000)
Julie Rigaud (Spring 2000)

Acknowledgements:

Laurel Brock, Karen Bryant, Kat Carlson, Lindsey Carnahan, Chuck Cook, Chett Daniel, Karl Gilpin, Ivy Hagedorn, Lynne Hawkins, Jessica Johnson, Jason Lee Kiefer, Terri Kowis, Kevin LaRue, Tracy Minear, Michelle Olson, Brooke Roberts, Tobin Schultz, Michelle Tappana, Christi Thomas, Tyler Vestal, Jessica Whitehead, Michelle Wilson