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
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 2017-2018: Adam Auerbach, an assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University, was awarded a senior short-term fellowship
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Radhika Govindrajan for Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relations in India’s Central Himalayas The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, joint authors of Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted
Read more →Colloquium on the Intersection of South Asian and Africana Studies to be Held at Howard University in April 2017 Scholars at the Intersection of South Asian and Africana Studies Saturday, April 8, 2017, 9am – 5pm Armour J. Blackburn University Center, Howard University, Washington D.C. A number
Read more →The conference called Mountstuart Elphinstone: Between Local and Global Forces will be held at Elphinstone College in Mumbai in April 2017. The conference is being organized by Professor Shah Mahmoud Hanifi of James Madison University and is also co-sponsored by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, American
Read more →Chicago (September 27, 2016) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first crowdsource funding campaign for an innovative performing arts project called The Jukeboxx Movement in India: From Surviving to Thriving. The campaign seeks to raise at least $25,000
Read more →Professor Arlene Maclin, the Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Consortium-Center for Academic Excellence (MAC-CAE), presented AIIS Director-General Purnima Mehta with a special plaque for her extraordinary service to MAC-CAE during its five years of collaboration with AIIS to bring students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to
Read more →The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Anand Taneja, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University, for Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in
Read more →AIIS and the friends and colleagues of the late Bernard Bate announce the establishment of the Bernard Bate Tamil Language Student Scholarship in partnership with the longstanding AIIS language program. Donations to the scholarship fund will go towards the support of students dedicated to the intensive study of Tamil
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is pleased to announce that the following scholars and artists have been awarded fellowships to carry out their projects in India in 2016-2017: Tenzin Bhuchung, a graduate student in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, was awarded a junior
Read more →AIIS Awarded Three-Year Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities Chicago (March 23, 2016) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a three-year grant for $245,175 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship Programs at Independent Research
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Aakash Mittal, a former AIIS fellow, talks about how much his fellowship meant to his career trajectory
Read more →AIIS Director General Purnima Mehta named one of The Economist’s 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life
The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that its Director-General, Purnima Mehta, has been distinguished by inclusion in The Economist’s list of Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life (http://www.globaldiversitylist.com/top-50-diversity-figures-in-public-life.html). Other notables on the list include President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama,
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is pleased to announce that the following scholars and artists have been awarded fellowships to carry out their projects in India in 2015-2016: Catherine Adcock, an associate professor in the Department of History at Washington University, St. Louis, was awarded a
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Walter Hakala for Negotiating Terms: Urdu Dictionaries and the Definition of Modern South Asia “ The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences” was awarded to Bhrigupati Singh for Poverty and the
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