AIIS awarded five Digital Scholarship grants, selected from a pool of 50 applications—far more than had been anticipated. The grants are intended to foster the digital production and dissemination of knowledge about India; that promote the creation and use of digital resources and media for the study
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Welcome everyone to the first podcast from the American Institute of Indian Studies! In this episode we’ll learn about the museum initiatives from the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology to share best practices in museum curation and exhibition development between the US and India. The
Read more →Aaron M. Shew is an Assistant Professor and REL Wilson Endowed Chair of Agricultural Economics at Arkansas State University. He received the Young Scholars Award from the International Rice Research Institute in 2018 and the Young Alumni Award from Middle Tennessee State University in 2019. Professor Shew
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce that the Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2021-22: Grants for Follow-Up Projects for Participants in the AIIS/CAORC faculty development seminars in India: Nabil Ouassini, assistant professor in the
Read more →AIIS has been holding its annual Dissertation to Book workshops for scholars early in their academic careers for twelve years, normally at the Madison South Asia Conference in October. The workshops, which have been supported by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and co-sponsored by the
Read more →Seminar: Exploring Urban Sustainability through India’s CitiesIndia: June/July 2021Application Deadline: March 1, 2021More Information and Apply: www.caorc.org/faculty-development-india For the third year, AIIS is partnering with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to host the faculty development seminar, “Exploring Urban Sustainability through India’s Cities”
Read more →The AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology (CA&A) organized a five –day Virtual Workshop on Museum Curation (10–14 August 2020), called Strengthening US-India Collaboration with grant support from the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi. This workshop was designed and
Read more →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 of Education’s Office of International and Foreign Language Education The AORC program provides grants to consortia of
Read more →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
Read more →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
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