August 14, 2020
AIIS is Awarded an American Overseas Research Center Grant from the US Department of Education
The AIIS is pleased to announce that it received notice on August 11, 2020 that it was awarded a four-year American Overseas Research Centers (AORC) grant from the U.S. Department…
July 14, 2020
AIIS Operating its First Online Summer Language Program
For more than five decades, AIIS has been providing intensive language instruction in India. Early in 2020 the AIIS language staff in India was busily preparing to welcome more than…
May 26, 2020
Project Feature: Peace Centers
In this AIIS feature, we explore the student projects created in Amar Sawhney's Design 4 course in the School of Architecture at Miami Dade College, the nation’s largest community college.…
May 14, 2020
AIIS Welcomes New Delegates
AIIS welcomes four new delegates to the institute this spring: Amy L. Allocco (Elon University), John Caldwell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Bhavya Tiwari (University of Houston), and Saiba…
May 4, 2020
Fellow Profile: Sara Dickey on Threads of Research with AIIS
Sara Dickey is a Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. Her research and teaching interests include class identities and relations; intersections of class, race, and caste; film consumption and fan…
April 6, 2020
AIIS 2020 Book Prizes Awarded to Nikhil Menon and Steven Vose
The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Steven Vose for Reimagining Jainism in Islamic India: Jain Intellectual Culture in the Delhi Sultanate The Joseph…
April 2, 2020
Fellow Profile: Jazmin Graves on Devotional Sufi Music and African Diasporas in Western India
Jazmin Graves, 2018-2019 AIIS Junior Research Fellow, has been featured on our site before celebrating her MIPAD Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40 award.…
December 12, 2019
From Austin to Lucknow to Washington, D.C.: Reflections on Language Training from AIIS Language Fellow Charlotte Giles
Charlotte Giles (right) attending the Uttar Pradesh Mango Festival while on an AIIS Language Fellowship Program. It’s strange to think that I have been associated with AIIS for over ten…
October 22, 2019
A Generous Gift from a Friend of AIIS
Lelah Dushkin, who died last year, made a donation to AIIS every year throughout her long career as Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas…