AIIS started offering Sanskrit instruction in the summer of 2001 Since then, Sanskrit has been among the most popular of programs: nearly 250 students—both graduate and undergraduate– have participated in the AIIS Sanskrit programs, including eleven students enrolled in the summer 2022 program. In addition to providing
Read more →In this episode of our 60th anniversary series, we have the unique honor of speaking to a scholar who has been part of the foundational landscape of Sanskrit scholarship and education in the United States, Robert Goldman, Professor of the Graduate School and Catherine and William
Read more →In this episode of our 60th anniversary series, Dr. A. N. Singh, AIIS Hindi program head, interviews Dr. Rakesh Ranjan, Senior Lecturer and Language Coordinator at Columbia University and former AIIS Hindi Language Program Director and current AIIS Language Committee member. In their interview, they discuss the
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Anna Seastrand for Body, History, and Myth: South Indian Murals, 1550-1800 The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Divya Cherian for Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables
Read more →AIIS gratefully acknowledges the generosity of colleagues who contributed to our 60th Anniversary Campaign (their names are listed below the announcement of the upcoming fellows). These contributions enabled AIIS to award three additional junior fellowships to non-U.S. citizens (for whom funding is otherwise limited) for 2022-24. These
Read more →This year, the American Institute of Indian Studies turns 60! To celebrate the history of AIIS, we have launched a year-long series of audio interviews exploring the history of AIIS over the last 60 years including the founding of the institute, its impact on scholarship and students,
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 2022. The recipients will carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
Read more →Chicago (April 26, 2022) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that it was awarded a three-year grant for $315,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship Programs at Independent Research (FPIRI) program. The award would be used to provide fellowships to
Read more →This year, the American Institute of Indian Studies turns 60! To celebrate the history of AIIS, we have launched a year-long series of audio interviews exploring the history of AIIS over the last 60 years including the founding of the institute, its impact on scholarship and
Read more →The AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) organized a program Bards and Ballads: Performance of an Endangered Musical Tradition of Western Rajasthan at Arna Jharna The Thar Desert Museum in Jodhpur, India on March 15, 2022. The performance presented a little known aspect of the
Read more →This year, the American Institute of Indian Studies turns 60! To celebrate the history of AIIS, we have launched a year-long series of audio interviews exploring the history of AIIS over the last 60 years including the founding of the institute, its impact on scholarship and
Read more →It is with great sadness that we announce that Pradeep R. Mehendiratta, for many years the Director-General of AIIS, a person who did so much for the Institute and for generations of American scholars in India, left us on January 28th, 2022. He had tested positive for COVID-19
Read more →AIIS is very excited to unveil a new web site dedicated to celebrating its 60th anniversary. AIIS was officially founded on October 4, 1961 when it was incorporated in the State of Delaware but as can be learned from the web site, its origins go back decades
Read more →In this episode, we will highlight the innovative visual and multimodal work of former AIIS fellows and filmmakers. AIIS offers four categories of research fellowships: Junior fellowships, Senior long-term and short-term fellowships, and Performing and Creative Arts fellowships – and within any of these categories, the form
Read more →AIIS is pleased to announce that it is inviting applications for five two-month student fellowships for the summer of 2022 to carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) and Center for Art and
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