Organization & Administration

Scholars who serve on the Institute's Board of Trustees, like the officers and committee members, donate their time. At the American headquarters, located at the University of Chicago, a small staff works effectively with all aspects of fellowship selection and with individual scholars until their departure for India. The national headquarters of the Institute in India is located in Gurgaon, just outside of New Delhi, with a smaller office in Defence Colony, New Delhi.  Regional offices are located in Chennai, Kolkata and Pune.

Administrative

Trustees
Executive Committee and Officers
Indian Advisory Committee
Committee on Art and Archaeology
Committee on the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology
Language Program Committee
Bi-National Committee
Staff

Executive Commitee

Ralph W. Nicholas, President
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Office: (773) 288-1538
email: r-nicholas@uchicago.edu

 

Pradeep R. Mehendiratta, Vice-President
American Institute of Indian Studies
D-31 Defence Colony
New Delhi - 110 024 India
Office: 2462-5386, 2463-2509, 2462-7293, 2469-8930; Fax: 91-11-24698150
email: aiisdel@sapta.com

 

Barbara Metcalf, Vice-President

Dept. of History

University of Michigan

1029 Tisch Hall

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Office: (734) 647-5414

email: metcalf@umich.edu

 

John Cort, Secretary
Department of Religion
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023
Office: (740) 587-6254
email: cort@denison.edu

 

Geraldine Forbes, Treasurer

Department of History

State University of New York, Oswego

Oswego, NY 13126

Office: (315) 446-3997

email: forbes@oswego.edu
 

Frederick M. Asher, Chair, Board of Trustees
Department of Art History
University of Minnesota
340 Heller Hall
271-19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Phone: (612) 624-4500
email: asher@maroon.tc.umn.edu

Members 

 

Rachel Fell McDermott

Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures

Columbia University

3009 Broadway

New York, NY 10027

Office: (212) 854-5416

rfm17@columbia.edu

 

Cynthia Atherton

Department of History of Art and Architecture

Middlebury College

Johnson 405B

Middlebury, VT 05753

Office: (802) 443-5232

atherton@middlebury.edu

 

Sandria Freitag

Duke University Box 90402

Durham, NC 27708-0402

Office:  (919) 668-2146

sandria.freitag@duke.edu

 

Faisal Devji

Eugene Lang College

New School University

65 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10003

Office: (212) 229-5717

email: devjif@newschool.edu

 

Padma Kaimal

Department of Art and Art History

Colgate University

308 Little Hall

Hamilton, NY 13346

Office: (315) 228-7057

email: pkaimal@mail.colgate.edu

 

 

 

 


 
 
 

Standing Committee Chairs


Janice Leoshko, Art and Archaeology Committee
Department of Art and Art History
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
Office: (512) 471-7757
email: jleoshko@mail.utexas.edu

 

Stephen Slawek, Ethnomusicology Committee
School of Music
University of Texas
1 University Station, E3100
Austin, TX 78712
Office: (512) 471-0671
email: slawek@mail.utexas.edu

 

Philip Lutgendorf, Language Committee
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Iowa
653 Phillips Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Office: 319) 335-2157
email: philip-lutgendorf@uiowa.edu

 

Susan Wadley, Publications Committee
Department of Anthropology
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
Office: (315) 443-2200
email: swadley@maxwell.syr.edu


For further information, contact:
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
U.S.A
Ph: (773) 702-8638

Contact: Elise Auerbach
aiis@uchicago.edu