October 23, 2020
AIIS Announces its 2021-22 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 2021-22: Grants for Follow-Up…
October 18, 2020
AIIS Holds Virtual Dissertation-To-Book Workshop
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…
September 16, 2020
AIIS and CAORC to Partner for Third Faculty Development Seminar in India
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…
August 17, 2020
AIIS Holds A Five–day Virtual Workshop on Museum Curation
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…
August 14, 2020
AIIS is Awarded an American Overseas Research Center Grant from the US Department of Education
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…
July 14, 2020
AIIS Operating its First Online Summer Language Program
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…
May 26, 2020
Project Feature: Peace Centers
In this AIIS feature, we explore the student projects created in Amar Sawhney's Design 4 course in the School of Architecture at Miami Dade College, the nation’s largest community college.…
May 14, 2020
AIIS Welcomes New Delegates
AIIS welcomes four new delegates to the institute this spring: Amy L. Allocco (Elon University), John Caldwell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Bhavya Tiwari (University of Houston), and Saiba…
May 4, 2020
Fellow Profile: Sara Dickey on Threads of Research with AIIS
Sara Dickey is a Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. Her research and teaching interests include class identities and relations; intersections of class, race, and caste; film consumption and fan…