Chandra Khan was educated in India and the United States and received a doctorate in geography from Kent State University. Her teaching and research interests are focused around digital authoring, computer culture and the networked communities, and the growing role of South Asia and the Pacific Rim in the emerging global cultural economy. Prior to joining CalArts, she taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Western Michigan University and Kent State University. She has published monographs and co-authored An Atlas of Tribal India. She is widely traveled and took a group of CalArts students on a study tour of Japan in the spring of 2000. She is currently working on her book Representation of Poverty, Poverty of Representation: a Case Study of Dhaka City.