March 29, 2017
AIIS 2017 Book Prizes Awarded to Radhika Govindrajan and to Diane Coffey and Dean Spears
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…
January 24, 2017
Colloquium on the Intersection of South Asian and Africana Studies to be Held at Howard University in April 2017
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,…
October 24, 2016
AIIS is Co-sponsoring International Conference on the Life and Legacy of Mountstuart Elphinstone in Mumbai in April 2017
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…
September 27, 2016
AIIS Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Innovative Hip Hop Jukeboxx Project in India
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…
August 4, 2016
AIIS Director-General Purnima Mehta Receives Award from MAC-CAE
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…
August 3, 2016
AIIS 2016 Book Prize Awarded to Anand Taneja
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,…
June 29, 2016
Bernard Bate Tamil Language Student Scholarship
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…
June 17, 2016
AIIS 2016-2017 Fellowship Recipients
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…
March 23, 2016
AIIS Awarded Three-Year Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
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…
March 11, 2016
AIIS Performing Arts Fellowship Had Key Impact on This Musician’s Career
Aakash Mittal, a former AIIS fellow, talks about how much his fellowship meant to his career trajectory