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 100 language students at its different program centers. Then the Corona Virus pandemic struck and plans needed
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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. Professor Sawhney participated in the AIIS and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ (CAORC) 2019-2020 Faculty
Read more →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 Varma (University of California, San Diego). AIIS delegates are the points of contact between AIIS and their
Read more →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 clubs; cinema and politics; heterodox Hinduisms; South Asian modernities; and activists and activist movements in South Asia.
Read more →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 W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Nikhil Menon for Planning Democracy: India’s
Read more →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. Today, Jazmin shares with us her AIIS funded research at the intersection of Sufi devotional traditions and
Read more →It’s strange to think that I have been associated with AIIS for over ten years because every time I return to the campus in Lucknow, I continue to be schooled. It makes me wish that I could simply go back for another academic year program or two.
Read more →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 State University. She also remembered the Institute in her will; her last generous gift of more than
Read more →The AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology was awarded a grant from the U.S. Embassy in India’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) small grants competition for “India: Documentation of Endangered Musical Traditions in Western Rajasthan.” ARCE will receive $70,000 for the 18-month project that falls
Read more →Chicago (September 13, 2019) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that in March 2019 it was awarded a three-year grant for $315,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) program. The award would be used
Read more →By Karen Guerrero Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University, was a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, she spells out why experiential, immersive learning opportunities are so essential for good
Read more →On August 8-9, 2019 the American Institute of Indian Studies held a Mughal Persian Archival Workshop at Lucknow University. The workshop was conceived in the context of exciting intellectual trends in the fields of comparative empire studies and the study of the wider Persianate world in the
Read more →The All India Museum Summit 2019, organized by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), was held at the India International Centre in New Delhi, July 22-24, 2019. Under the theme India’s museums in the new millennium the Summit emphasized the importance of museums in enriching the
Read more →By Janet Armitage Janet Armitage, Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, was a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar to India. The seminar’s theme was urban sustainability and, in this essay, Armitage discusses her Indian experiences with women
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