November 9, 2018
LANGUAGE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT: SUMMER MUGHAL PERSIAN
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September 25, 2018
AIIS Receives Grant from the U.S. Embassy in India for a Museum and Heritage Conservation Summit
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…
August 27, 2018
AIIS to Host Faculty Development Seminar on Urban Sustainability
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…
August 20, 2018
Indispensable Institute: AIIS Welcomes Incoming President Sumathi Ramaswamy
Sumathi Ramaswamy 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…
May 31, 2018
AIIS 2018-2019 Fellowship Recipients
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…
April 4, 2018
AIIS 2018 Book Prizes Awarded to Eric Huntington and Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
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…
March 13, 2018
Language Program Alumni: A Profile in Careers, Education, and Community Engagement
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…
September 18, 2017
Cultural Education in the Himalayas, a Ladakhi Textbook, and the AIIS Tibetan Language Program
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…
August 17, 2017
Fast Moving History: An Interview with Prof. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
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…
May 31, 2017
AIIS 2017-2018 Fellowship Recipients
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…