Organization & Administration

An Organization of Scholars

Scholars who serve on the Institute’s Board of Trustees, as well as officers and committee members, donate their time. The American headquarters staff works with all aspects of fellowship and language program administration and with fellows and students until their departure for India. Upon their arrival in India, the Delhi staff assumes responsibilty for each scholar and student. The national headquarters of the Institute in India is located in Gurgaon, just outside of New Delhi, with an office in Defence Colony, New Delhi. Regional offices are located in Kolkata and Pune.

Structure

  • Board of Trustees
  • Indian Advisory Committee
  • Bi-National Committee
  • Art & Archaeology Committee
  • Digital India Learning (DIL) Committee
  • Ethnomusicology Committee
  • International Learning Committee
  • Language Program Committee
  • Publications Committee
  • Selection Committee

Board of Trustees

Sumathi Ramaswamy, President
Department of History
Duke University

Peter Schmitthenner, Secretary
Department of History
Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Siddharth Chandra, Treasurer
Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University

Philip Lutgendorf, Chair, Board of Trustees
Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Iowa

Members

Jayson Beaster-Jones
Global Arts Study Program
University of California, Merced

Eric Beverley
Department of History
SUNY Stony Brook

Tejaswini Ganti
Department of Anthropology
New York University

Syed Akbar Hyder
Department of Asian Studies
University of Texas

Lisa Mitchell
Department of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania

Lisa Owen
Department of Art History
University of North Texas

Sarah Pinto
Department of Anthropology
Tufts University

Rashmi Sadana
Department of Anthropology
George Mason University

Mytheli Sreenivas
Departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ohio State University

Ralph W. Nicholas (trustee at large)
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago

Standing Committee Chairs

Susan Bean, Art and Archaeology Committee
Peabody Essex Museum

James Nye, Digital India Learning (DIL) Committee
Committee on Southern Asian Studies
University of Chicago

Anthony Seeger, Ethnomusicology Committee
Department of Ethnomusicology
University of California, Los Angeles

Sandria Freitag, International Learning Committee
Department of History
North Carolina State University

Rebecca Manring, Language Committee
Department of Religious Studies
Indiana University

Sarah Lamb, Publications Committee (Co-Chair)
Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University

Anand Yang, Publications Committee (Co-Chair)
Department of History
University of Washington

Ex Officio

Elise Auerbach, U.S. Director

For further information, please contact:

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)

1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
U.S.A.
(773) 702-8638

Contact: Elise Auerbach, U.S. Director
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