December 13, 2023
Creating and collaborating through digital projects with the AIIS Digital Sonic and Visual Projects fellowships
In this episode, we explore what it’s like to create born digital projects in India with support from the two AIIS research centers: the Center for Art and Archeology (CA&A)…
October 11, 2023
Sitar, Dhrupad, and breathing into the space of South Asian classical music
In this episode, we highlight new forms of innovative research being done on South Asian classical music through the AIIS performing and creative arts fellowship. Sitarist and ethnomusicologist Brian Q. Silver…
September 20, 2023
AIIS is awarded a U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grant for the Project, India: Documentation of 16th-17th-Century Mughal Monuments on the Grand Trunk Road
The Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) at the U.S. State Department announced that AIIS has been awarded a U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation grant for the project "India: Documentation of…
September 1, 2023
Digital India Learning Summer Fellows Complete their Digital Exhibits for VMIS
Five Digital India Learning (DIL) summer student fellows spent two months in India during the summer of 2023 working on their digital sonic and visual projects at the AIIS Center…
July 20, 2023
Water is Life
by Nick Timmerman In this essay, Professor Timmerman shares his experience on the Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in India in January of 2023, and how the program affected his perspective…
July 5, 2023
The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce its Upcoming Fellows for 2023-2025
The Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2023-25: Amy Allocco, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University,…
April 25, 2023
In Memory of Catherine B. Asher (1946-2023)
The American Institute of Indian Studies deeply mourns the death, on April 14, 2023, of Catherine B. Asher, a renowned art historian who dedicated her life to studying and publishing…
April 24, 2023
AIIS 2023 Book Prizes Awarded to Andrew McDowell and Tyler Williams
The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Tyler W. Williams for If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi The…
April 13, 2023
AIIS is Pleased to Announce the Recipients of its Summer 2023 DIL Student Fellowships
AIIS is pleased to announce the award of five student fellowships for digital sonic and visual projects, to be carried out in the summer of 2023. The recipients will carry…
March 29, 2023
AIIS Sanskrit Students Perform Play at Sanskrit Drama Competition
Students on the AIIS academic year Sanskrit program in Pune Carol Rodriguez-Gutierrez (University of Florida) and Shuheng Zhang (University of Pennsylvania) performed a play entirely in Sanskrit language at the…