AIIS is pleased to announce the award of four student fellowships for digital sonic and visual projects, to be carried out in the summer of 2024. The recipients will carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
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The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Darshana Mini for Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Vibhuti Ramachandran for “Immoral Traffic”: An Ethnography of
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In this episode, we explore what it’s like to create born digital projects in India with support from the two AIIS research centers: the Center for Art and Archeology (CA&A) and the Archives and Research Centers for Ethnomusicology (ARCE). Both units share an online archive and digital
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In this episode, we highlight new forms of innovative research being done on South Asian classical music through the AIIS performing and creative arts fellowship. Sitarist and ethnomusicologist Brian Q. Silver interviews sitarist and AIIS fellow Paul Livingstone. Through their knowledgeable experiences as international performers and dedicated musicians,
Read more →The Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) at the U.S. State Department announced that AIIS has been awarded a U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation grant for the project “India: Documentation of 16th-17th-Century Mughal Monuments on the Grand Trunk Road.” AIIS will receive $153,000 for the project, which will
Read more →Five Digital India Learning (DIL) summer student fellows spent two months in India during the summer of 2023 working on their digital sonic and visual projects at the AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology and the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, culminating in a presentation held
Read more →The Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2023-25: Amy Allocco, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out the project, “The Drummer-Priests of Tamil Nadu.” Professor Allocco’s
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies deeply mourns the death, on April 14, 2023, of Catherine B. Asher, a renowned art historian who dedicated her life to studying and publishing on the art and architecture of South Asia. Professor Asher’s contributions to the field of art history
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Tyler W. Williams for If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Andrew McDowell for Atmospheric Entanglements:
Read more →AIIS is pleased to announce the award of five student fellowships for digital sonic and visual projects, to be carried out in the summer of 2023. The recipients will carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
Read more →Students on the AIIS academic year Sanskrit program in Pune Carol Rodriguez-Gutierrez (University of Florida) and Shuheng Zhang (University of Pennsylvania) performed a play entirely in Sanskrit language at the R.N. Dandekar Sanskrit Drama Competition at Fergusson College in Pune on March 28, 2023. Sa Sumaramani—meaning “That
Read more →This year we have been celebrating a history of scholarship in and through AIIS – exploring the narratives within the walls of the institute and the conversations that have happened thanks to the support of AIIS. In this episode, we turn from history to current research that
Read more →Howard University student Lydia Hill, who received an AIIS Digital India Learning Initiative summer student fellowship, created a virtual exhibit “A Peek Into Indigenous Furniture: Through the Eyes of Lydia Hill,” that was featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s widely distributed September 2022 IFLE Newsletter. The
Read more →This year we have been celebrating a history of scholarship in and through AIIS – exploring the narratives within the walls of the institute and the conversations that have happened thanks to the support of AIIS. In this episode, we turn from history to current research that
Read more →Shouraseni Sen Roy is a professor in the Geography and Sustainable Development department at University of Miami. Her research interests include climate change processes and impact in the Global South using geospatial analysis techniques. Professor Sen Roy was recently a senior short-term fellow with AIIS in 2021.
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