The annual AIIS Dissertation-to-Book Workshop aims to assist recent PhDs convert their doctoral dissertations into publishable monographs. Over the years, the resulting books published by workshop participants have made valuable contributions to all fields within the study of South Asia, as evidenced by the list below.
The following list is organized by year of participation in the AIIS workshop.
2020
Swapnil Rai, Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
2019
Gregory Clines, Jain Ramayana Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation (Routledge, 2022)
Sahana Ghosh, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (University of California Press, 2023)
2018
Mubashar Hasan, Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Emma Natalya Stein, Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples (Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
Brian Turnbull, Women Who Only Serve Chai: Gender Quotas, Reservations and Proxies in India (Routledge 2022)
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India (Oxford University Press, 2021)
2017
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders (Columbia University Press, 2023)
Nienke Boer, The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World (Duke University Press, 2023)
J. Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham University Press, 2020)
Elizabeth Lhost, Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia (The University of North Carolina Press 2022)
William A.T. Logan, A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947–1969: Autarky and Foreign Aid (Palgrave Macmillan 2022)
Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton University Press 2022)
Salma Siddique, Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Gowri Vijayakumar, At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis (Stanford University Press 2021)
Christina Welsch, The Company’s Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858 (Cambridge University Press 2022)
2016
Emilia Bachrach, Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript (Maupin Publishing 2020)
Radha Kumar, Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell University Press 2021)
Mani Rao, Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)
Rumela Sen, Farewell to Arms: How Rebels Retire Without Getting Killed (Oxford University Press 2021)
2015
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Laurah Klepinger, Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022)
Durba Mitra Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Dwaipayan Sen, The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Caleb Simmons, Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India, 1782-1868 (Oxford University Press, 2019)
2014
Francesca Jensenius, Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Mubbashir Rizmi, The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan (Stanford University Press, 2019)
Hamsa Stainton Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir (Oxford University Press, 2019)
2013
Gil Ben-Herut, Siva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada According to Harihara’s Ragalegalu (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune (eds., with Anne Monius), Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers (CRC Press, 2019)
Christina Davis, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Holly Donahue Singh, Infertility in a Crowded Country: Hiding Reproduction in India (Indiana University Press, 2022)
Garrett Field, Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka (University of California Press, 2017)
Maura Finkelstein, The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke University Press, 2019)
Mythri Jegathesan, Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women & Work in Postwar Sri Lanka (University of Washington Press, 2019)
Uditi Sen, Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
2012
Amy Bhatt, High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration (University of Press, 2018)
Jennifer Dubrow, Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia (University of Hawaii Press, 2018)
Michele Friedner, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
Walter Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Leah Koskimaki (ed., with Carol Upadhya and Mario Rutten), Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (Routledge, 2018)
Emily Rook-Koepsel, Democracy and Unity in India: Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1960 (Routledge, 2019)
Angela Rudert, Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-Led Spiritual Movement (Lexington Books, 2017)
Michael Slouber, Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras (Oxford University Press, 2016)
2011
Bambi Chapin, Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village: Shaping Hierarchy and Desire (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
Sunila Kale, Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development (Stanford University Press, 2014)
Max Katz, Lineage of Loss: Counternarratives of North Indian Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
Michele Louro, Comrades Against Imperialism: Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Sujatha Arundathi Meegama, Sri Lanka: Connected Art Histories (Marg, 2017)
Harris Solomon, Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India (Duke University Press, 2016)
Sonja Thomas, Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India (University of Washington Press, 2018)
2010
Sareeta Amrute, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin (Duke University Press, 2016)
Neilesh Bose, Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Antoinette DeNapoli, Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Jenny Huberman, Ambivalent Encounters: Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
Sarasi Majumder, People’s Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism (University of Fordham Press, 2018)
Constantine Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Debarati Sen, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (SUNY Press, 2017)
Bhrigupati Singh, Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Anna Stirr, Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Sanjeev Vidyarthi, One Idea, Many Plans: An American City Design Concept in Independent India (Routledge, 2015)
2009
Tarini Bedi, The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India (SUNY Press, 2016)
Varuni Bhatia, Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Kristin Bloomer, Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism and Marian Possession in South India (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Laura Brueck, Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (Columbia University Press, 2014)