April 27, 2022
AIIS is Pleased to Announce the Recipients of its New DIL Student Fellowships
AIIS is pleased to announce the award of five student fellowships for digital sonic and visual projects, to be carried out in the summer of 2022. The recipients will carry…
April 26, 2022
AIIS Awarded Three-Year Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
Chicago (April 26, 2022) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that it was awarded a three-year grant for $315,000 from the National Endowment for the…
April 1, 2022
60th Anniversary Series – Philip Lutgendorf and Sara Simons on AIIS and Family, Memories, and Support
This year, the American Institute of Indian Studies turns 60! To celebrate the history of AIIS, we have launched a year-long series of audio interviews exploring the history of…
March 21, 2022
AIIS Organizes Performance to Highlight Endangered Musical Tradition of Western Rajasthan
The AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) organized a program Bards and Ballads: Performance of an Endangered Musical Tradition of Western Rajasthan at Arna Jharna The Thar Desert…
February 13, 2022
60th Anniversary Series – Sumathi Ramaswamy and Ralph W. Nicholas on History, Founding, and Reach of AIIS
This year, the American Institute of Indian Studies turns 60! To celebrate the history of AIIS, we have launched a year-long series of audio interviews exploring the history of…
February 2, 2022
AIIS Mourns the Loss of its Former Director-General Pradeep R. Mehendiratta
Pradeep R. Mehendiratta, 1933-2022 It is with great sadness that we announce that Pradeep R. Mehendiratta, for many years the Director-General of AIIS, a person who did…
January 25, 2022
AIIS Unveils Web Site to Mark its 60th Anniversary
AIIS is very excited to unveil a new web site dedicated to celebrating its 60th anniversary. AIIS was officially founded on October 4, 1961 when it was incorporated in the…
January 5, 2022
AIIS Filmmaker Fellows
In this episode, we will highlight the innovative visual and multimodal work of former AIIS fellows and filmmakers. AIIS offers four categories of research fellowships: Junior fellowships, Senior long-term and…
December 20, 2021
AIIS Announces New Student Fellowships for Digital Sonic and Visual Projects
AIIS is pleased to announce that it is inviting applications for five two-month student fellowships for the summer of 2022 to carry out original projects using the resources of the two…
September 27, 2021
First Taraknath Das Memorial Fellowship Awarded to Siddharth Menon
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.…