The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Holly Shaffer for Grafted Arts: The Marathas and the British in Western India, 1760-1820 The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Vaibhav Saria for Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving
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AIIS awarded five Digital Scholarship grants, selected from a pool of 50 applications—far more than had been anticipated. The grants are intended to foster the digital production and dissemination of knowledge about India; that promote the creation and use of digital resources and media for the study
Read more →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 Projects for Participants in the AIIS/CAORC faculty development seminars in India: Nabil Ouassini, assistant professor in the
Read more →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 workshops, which have been supported by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and co-sponsored by the
Read more →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 American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to host the faculty development seminar, “Exploring Urban Sustainability through India’s Cities”
Read more →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 Affairs Section of the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi. This workshop was designed and
Read more →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 of Education’s Office of International and Foreign Language Education The AORC program provides grants to consortia of
Read more →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 100 language students at its different program centers. Then the Corona Virus pandemic struck and plans needed
Read more →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 W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Nikhil Menon for Planning Democracy: India’s
Read more →It’s strange to think that I have been associated with AIIS for over ten years because every time I return to the campus in Lucknow, I continue to be schooled. It makes me wish that I could simply go back for another academic year program or two.
Read more →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 State University. She also remembered the Institute in her will; her last generous gift of more than
Read more →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 of Endangered Musical Traditions in Western Rajasthan.” ARCE will receive $70,000 for the 18-month project that falls
Read more →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 Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) program. The award would be used
Read more →By Karen Guerrero Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University, was a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, she spells out why experiential, immersive learning opportunities are so essential for good
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