April 6, 2020
AIIS 2020 Book Prizes Awarded to Nikhil Menon and Steven Vose
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…
April 2, 2020
Fellow Profile: Jazmin Graves on Devotional Sufi Music and African Diasporas in Western India
Jazmin Graves, 2018-2019 AIIS Junior Research Fellow, has been featured on our site before celebrating her MIPAD Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40 award.…
December 12, 2019
From Austin to Lucknow to Washington, D.C.: Reflections on Language Training from AIIS Language Fellow Charlotte Giles
Charlotte Giles (right) attending the Uttar Pradesh Mango Festival while on an AIIS Language Fellowship Program. It’s strange to think that I have been associated with AIIS for over ten…
October 22, 2019
A Generous Gift from a Friend of AIIS
Lelah Dushkin, who died last year, made a donation to AIIS every year throughout her long career as Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas…
October 14, 2019
ARCE Awarded Ambassadors Fund Grant for Documentation of Imperiled Musical Traditions of Western Rajasthan
The AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology was awarded a grant from the U.S. Embassy in India’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) small grants competition for “India: Documentation…
September 13, 2019
AIIS Awarded Three-Year Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
Chicago (September 13, 2019) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that in March 2019 it was awarded a three-year grant for $315,000 from the National…
August 26, 2019
Learning to Teach India through Travel
By Karen Guerrero The participants in the AIIS-CAORC 2019 faculty development seminar to India. Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University,…
August 23, 2019
AIIS Holds Mughal Persian Archival Workshop
On August 8-9, 2019 the American Institute of Indian Studies held a Mughal Persian Archival Workshop at Lucknow University. The workshop was conceived in the context of exciting intellectual trends…
August 9, 2019
AIIS Convenes All India Museum Summit
The All India Museum Summit 2019, organized by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), was held at the India International Centre in New Delhi, July 22-24, 2019. Under the…
July 26, 2019
Water and Women in Urban India
By Janet Armitage Across all segments of Indian society, women play critical roles in helping conserve and manage increasingly limited water resources. Janet Armitage, Associate Professor of Sociology at…