Current AIIS Fellow

Congratulations to all fellowship recipients:

Amit Basole, a graduate student in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Muslim Voices: Oral Histories of Post-Partition South Asia.”
 

Pratyusha Basu, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South lorida, was awarded a senior short-term fellowship to carry out her project, “Cows and Capital: TheFuture of Dairy Farmers in Suburbanizing Delhi.”
 

Joel Bordeaux, a graduate student in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, was awarded ajunior fellowship to carry out his project, “The Light of Kali in the King's Heart: Power, Poetry and RajaKrishnacandra Ray.”
 

Namrata Gaikwad, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota,was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out her project, “Men Against Matrilineage: Contestations Around Gender Politics in Shillong.”
 

Robert Goldman, a professor in the Department of South and SE Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded senior short-term fellowship to carry out his project, “The Final Chapter: Introduction, Translation and Annotation of the Uttarakanda of the Valmiki Ramayana.”
 

Kathryn Hardy, a graduate student in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Filming the Rural in the City: The Urban Production of Rural Values in Bhojpuri Film.”
 

Stephen Hughes, a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at The School of Oriental and African tudies at the University of London, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out his project, “Itineraries f Film: Distribution, Exhibition and Audiences in South India.” Professor Hughes’ fellowship is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 

Anil Jacob, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Business-State Relations in Post-Liberalization India.”

Dipti Khera, a graduate student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia niversity, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out her project, “Urban Imaginaries Between Empires: Mapping from Udaipur to Jaipur, 1707-1832.”
 

Peter Knapczyk, a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Marsiya, 1650-1800: Literary Traditions and Religious Identities.”
 

Douglas Knight, Jr., a musician, was awarded a performing/creative arts fellowship to carry out his poject, “Performance in the Family Style of T. Balasaraswati.”
 

Riyad Koya, a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “India Diaspora and Personal Law: From Imperial to National Citizenship.”
 

Leah Lowthorp, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out her project, “From the Local to the Global: Kutivattam as UNESCO Intangible Heritage of Humanity.”
 

Akshay Mangla, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Welfare of the Voiceless: Explaining the Persistence and Decline of Child Labor in India.” Mr. Mangla is the seventh recipient of the Priscilla M. Boughton-Stanley Kochanek Graduate Fellowship in Indian Studies.
 

Durba Mitra, a graduate student in the Department of History at Emory University, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out her project, “Examining the 'Prostitute': Medicine, Sexuality and the Body in Colonial Calcutta.”
 

Anne Murphy, an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out her project, “Seva (Service) and the Making of Sikh Ethical Practice.”
 

Vangal Muthukumar, a graduate student in the Department of South and SE Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Literary Culture in Post-Medieval Tamil Nadu.”
 

Iswari Pandey, an assistant professor in the Program in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric at Syracuse University, was awarded a senior fellowship to conduct research on the topic, “Ways of Writing:Composing (in) Global English, Globalizing Composition.” Professor Pandey’s fellowship is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 

Anand Pandian, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out his project, “Landscape and Emotion in Tamil Cinema.”
 

Bhavani Raman, an assistant professor in the Department of History at Princeton University, was awarded a senior short-term fellowship to carry out her project, “Document Raj: Office Politics, Writing and Authority in Early Colonial Madras, 1771-1860.”
 

Anne Reinhardt, an assistant professor in the Department of History at Williams College, was awarded asenior fellowship to conduct research on the topic, “Cultures of Capitalism in China and India, 1920-2000.” Professor Reinhardt’s fellowship is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 

Peter Allen Roda, a graduate student in the Department of Music at New York University, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out his project, “Making Banares Tabla: An Actor-Network Approach to Musical Production.”
 

Lloyd Rudolph, an emeritus professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, was awarded a senior short-term fellowship to carry out his project, “Romanticism's Child: Essays on and Documents Related to James Tod.”
 

Suzanne Schulz, a graduate student in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas,was awarded a junior fellowship to carry out her project, “Speaking to the City: Media, Regulation and Public Space in Lucknow.”

Seema Sohi, an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, was awarded a senior short-term fellowship to carry out her project, “Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Empire and Indian Anti-Colonialism.”
 

Kaushik Sunder Ranjan, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out his project, “Experimental Values: Global Clinical Trials in India.”
 

Amanda Weidman, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out her project, “Female Voices in the Public Sphere: Playback Singing as Cultural Phenomenon in South India.” Professor Weidman’s fellowship is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 

Max Zbiral-Teller, a musician, was awarded a performing/creative arts fellowship to carry out his project, “The American Santoor.”