AIIS is pleased to announce the award of four student fellowships for digital sonic and visual projects, to be carried out in the summer of 2024. The recipients will carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
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Howard University student Lydia Hill, who received an AIIS Digital India Learning Initiative summer student fellowship, created a virtual exhibit “A Peek Into Indigenous Furniture: Through the Eyes of Lydia Hill,” that was featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s widely distributed September 2022 IFLE Newsletter. The
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Anna Seastrand for Body, History, and Myth: South Indian Murals, 1550-1800 The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Divya Cherian for Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables
Read more →AIIS is pleased to announce the first recipient of the Taraknath Das Memorial Fellowship: Siddharth Menon, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Menon will be carrying out his project in Kochi, “(De)Constructing Concrete: Capital, Nature, and Infrastructures in Urbanizing
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce the Latest Recipients of AIIS Fellowships Newest AIIS Fellows (projected to carry out their projects in 2022-2023) Anurag Advani, a graduate student in the Department of South and SE Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies is very grateful to the officers and trustees of the Taraknath Das Foundation for the donation of the Foundation’s endowment assets. AIIS is committed to carrying out the mission of the Foundation—which is now dissolved–to support the research of Indian graduate
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 →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 →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.
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