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
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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
Read more →AIIS is pleased to announce the first recipient of the Taraknath Das Memorial Fellowship: Siddharth Menon, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Menon will be carrying out his project in Kochi, “(De)Constructing Concrete: Capital, Nature, and Infrastructures in Urbanizing
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce the Latest Recipients of AIIS Fellowships Newest AIIS Fellows (projected to carry out their projects in 2022-2023) Anurag Advani, a graduate student in the Department of South and SE Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is very grateful to the officers and trustees of the Taraknath Das Foundation for the donation of the Foundation’s endowment assets. AIIS is committed to carrying out the mission of the Foundation—which is now dissolved–to support the research of Indian graduate
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Holly Shaffer for Grafted Arts: The Marathas and the British in Western India, 1760-1820 The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Vaibhav Saria for Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving
Read more →AIIS awarded five Digital Scholarship grants, selected from a pool of 50 applications—far more than had been anticipated. The grants are intended to foster the digital production and dissemination of knowledge about India; that promote the creation and use of digital resources and media for the study
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce that the Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2021-22: Grants for Follow-Up Projects for Participants in the AIIS/CAORC faculty development seminars in India: Nabil Ouassini, assistant professor in the
Read more →AIIS has been holding its annual Dissertation to Book workshops for scholars early in their academic careers for twelve years, normally at the Madison South Asia Conference in October. The workshops, which have been supported by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and co-sponsored by the
Read more →Seminar: Exploring Urban Sustainability through India’s CitiesIndia: June/July 2021Application Deadline: March 1, 2021More Information and Apply: www.caorc.org/faculty-development-india For the third year, AIIS is partnering with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to host the faculty development seminar, “Exploring Urban Sustainability through India’s Cities”
Read more →The AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology (CA&A) organized a five –day Virtual Workshop on Museum Curation (10–14 August 2020), called Strengthening US-India Collaboration with grant support from the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi. This workshop was designed and
Read more →The AIIS is pleased to announce that it received notice on August 11, 2020 that it was awarded a four-year American Overseas Research Centers (AORC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of International and Foreign Language Education The AORC program provides grants to consortia of
Read more →For more than five decades, AIIS has been providing intensive language instruction in India. Early in 2020 the AIIS language staff in India was busily preparing to welcome more than 100 language students at its different program centers. Then the Corona Virus pandemic struck and plans needed
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Steven Vose for Reimagining Jainism in Islamic India: Jain Intellectual Culture in the Delhi Sultanate The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Nikhil Menon for Planning Democracy: India’s
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