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February 18, 2026

AIIS Communication Specialist Position Available

The American Institute of Indian Studies is hiring a Part-time Communications Specialist. The Communication Specialist would be expected to work closely with the Executive Director of the American Institute of Indian Studies to implement a communications strategy to engage and…
January 24, 2026

Reflections on Language Learning, Language Immersion, and Pedagogy

By Jessica Merritt Jessica Merritt has recently completed her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Indiana University.  Her dissertation is titled: The Austerities of Loving Devotion: Ritual Theory and Practice in Puṣṭimārg Vaiṣṇavism.  Throughout her undergraduate and graduate careers, she participated…
January 24, 2026

AIIS Language Programs: More than just language learning

By Abigail Crisman AIIS Hindi Language Program The AIIS Hindi language program was an amazing experience.  It offered a supportive environment in which I could focus completely on learning written and spoken Hindi. The teachers were a wealth of knowledge…
August 28, 2025

AIIS to open new research fellowship competitions in mid-October 2025

AIIS remains committed to building and growing the field of Indian Studies in the United States. In the face of US federal funding cuts and reductions, AIIS is having to rethink what fellowship support for travel to and research in…
June 23, 2025

AIIS Remembers Joseph W. Elder

Remembering Joe Elder (1930-2025): The Teaching and Study of India and South Asia in the United States John E. Cort             Joseph W. Elder (known to all simply as Joe) died in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 26, 2025, at the…
April 6, 2025

DIL Futures: Exploring the present and future of the AIIS Digital India Learning initiative

In this episode, we explore the bright and fascinating futures of the AIIS Digital India Learning initiative. Launched in 2019 as a new effort from AIIS President Sumathi Ramaswamy, the DIL program has already awarded several rounds of grants to…
April 6, 2025

Fellow Profile: Aarti S. Madan on the Spaces, Places, and Voices between India and Argentina

Aarti S. Madan is an Associate Professor of Spanish & International Studies in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include questions of national identity, spatial & environmental humanities, and transnational feminisms in Latin…
March 25, 2025

Sunila S. Kale Elected Next President of AIIS

Sunila S. Kale, a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has been elected as the next president of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Her four-year term will begin on July 1, 2026. …
March 25, 2025

AIIS 2025 Book Prizes Awarded to Dana Kornberg and Satya Shikha Chakraborty

The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Dana Kornberg for The Garbage Economy: Caste Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Delhi The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded…
February 12, 2025

AIIS Remembers its Former President Joe Elder

AIIS mourns the passing and celebrates the career and legacy of Joseph W. Elder, who died at age ninety-four in Madison, Wisconsin on January 26, 2025. The fourth President of AIIS from 1986 to 1994, and then Chair of the…