May 3, 2019
Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary
By Janny Li Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019 participant in…
April 5, 2019
AIIS 2019 Book Prizes Awarded to Dipti Khera and Bharat Venkat
The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Dipti Khera for The Place of Many Moods: Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century. The Joseph W.…
February 13, 2019
Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities
Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities by Robin Kietlinski “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our thinking, can we…
January 10, 2019
Hindi and Rural Development: The Education of Language Fellow Avital Datskovsky
Avital (left) at a Diwali celebration while participating in the AIIS Hindi language program. Avital Datskovsky couldn’t get enough of India. After participating in the 2013-14 academic year AIIS Hindi…
November 19, 2018
AIIS Trustee Michael Fisher Publishes Sweeping Anthology on Environmental History of India
AIIS congratulates Michael H. Fisher on the publication of his sweeping new anthology, An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press). Prof. Fisher…
November 14, 2018
AIIS Junior Fellow Jazmin Graves Named one of the Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40
Jazmin Graves AIIS congratulates junior fellow Jazmin Graves on being named one of the MIPAD Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40. The Most Influential People…
November 9, 2018
LANGUAGE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT: SUMMER MUGHAL PERSIAN
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September 25, 2018
AIIS Receives Grant from the U.S. Embassy in India for a Museum and Heritage Conservation Summit
AIIS received a grant to hold a three-day Museum and Heritage Conservation Summit which will bring together museum professionals in India including curators, administrators and conservationists, as well as some…
August 27, 2018
AIIS to Host Faculty Development Seminar on Urban Sustainability
AIIS is partnering with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to host a faculty development seminar "Exploring Urban Sustainability through India's Cities" in India in January 2019. This…
August 20, 2018
Indispensable Institute: AIIS Welcomes Incoming President Sumathi Ramaswamy
Sumathi Ramaswamy Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B. Duke Professor of History at Duke University, recently began her term as President of AIIS. We caught up with her to talk about the…