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. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Bharat Venkat for At the Limits of
Read more →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 bring about meaningful and sustainable development for all.” —Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Voices from the Grassroots On
Read more →Avital Datskovsky couldn’t get enough of India. After participating in the 2013-14 academic year AIIS Hindi language program in Jaipur—on a language fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Group Projects Abroad program—she returned as an American India Foundation Clinton Fellow in 2016-17 to work with
Read more →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 writes below on the challenges and rewards of synthesizing years of research within a single book, and
Read more →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 of African Descent excellence organization provides global recognition and leadership training to enhance the local impact of current and future
Read more →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 alumni of the Art Conservationist Fellowships, to engage with each other and American counterparts on important aspects
Read more →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 seminar is intended for faculty at community colleges and minority-serving institutions, in order to promote the development
Read more →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 Institute’s past, present, and future. AIIS: What do you see in the future of AIIS that excites you? What
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 2018-2019: Roy Bar-Sadeh, a graduate student in the Department of History at Columbia University, was awarded a junior fellowship to carry
Read more →Though she’s enjoying her job at Google in San Francisco, Emma Leiken hasn’t sworn off South Asian Studies as a possible career sometime down the road. And with a resume like hers, there’s little standing in her way—whether she chooses the technology industry or international affairs, she’s
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Eric Huntington for Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner for Claiming the State: Active Citizenship
Read more →AIIS conducted a survey of language program alumni in 2018. We received responses from 174 former language program participants in various stages of their careers. The responses reflect a body of alumni that is highly educated, employable, and actively engaged in international affairs, South Asian Studies, and
Read more →Patrick Dowd’s passion for the languages and cultures of the Himalayas didn’t end in the summer of 2013, after completing the AIIS intensive Tibetan language program in Dharamshala. Today, Patrick finds himself in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, where he is directing a project to
Read more →The cultural organization Jnanapravaha Mumbai was the site of the conference “Mountstuart Elphinstone: Between Local and Global Forces” on April 20-21, 2017. The conference, which was organized by Professor Shah Mahmoud Hanifi of James Madison University and co-sponsored by AIIS and other overseas research centers in South
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