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 post-doctoral scholars in the Humanities to enable them to conduct their research in India.
On April 13, 2022 , the NEH announced the award of $33.17 million in grants for 245 humanities projects. “NEH is proud to support these exemplary education, media, preservation, research, and infrastructure projects,” said NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo). “These 245 projects will expand the horizons of our knowledge of culture and history, lift up humanities organizations working to preserve and tell the stories of local and global communities, and bring high-quality public programs and educational resources directly to the American public.”
The Institute’s previous grants from the NEH FPIRI program have supported outstanding humanists in fields such as anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, and religious studies. Former and current NEH-funded AIIS fellows have carried out research projects that have resulted in numerous publications, conference presentations, and enhanced teaching about India. Humanistic scholarship on India, much of it produced with AIIS support, and the innovative theoretical frameworks worked out as a result, have also transformed the way academics focusing on other areas of the world approach their research. The NEH grant will enable AIIS to award enhanced stipends to NEH-funded fellows, enabling them to conduct more ambitious research projects.
Recent publications by former NEH-funded AIIS fellows include Scott Kugle, Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021); Joel Lee, Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism and Underground Religion (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021); and Mytheli Sreenivas, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021).
AIIS, an American Overseas Research Center, is a consortium of 90 universities and colleges and whose mission is to further the knowledge of India in the United States by supporting American scholarship on India and to promote and advance mutual understanding between the citizens of the U. S. and of India.
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