The Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) at the U.S. State Department announced that AIIS has been awarded a U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation grant for the project “India: Documentation of 16th-17th-Century Mughal Monuments on the Grand Trunk Road.” AIIS will receive $153,000 for the project, which will
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Five Digital India Learning (DIL) summer student fellows spent two months in India during the summer of 2023 working on their digital sonic and visual projects at the AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology and the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, culminating in a presentation held
Read more →The Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2023-25: Amy Allocco, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out the project, “The Drummer-Priests of Tamil Nadu.” Professor Allocco’s
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies deeply mourns the death, on April 14, 2023, of Catherine B. Asher, a renowned art historian who dedicated her life to studying and publishing on the art and architecture of South Asia. Professor Asher’s contributions to the field of art history
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Tyler W. Williams for If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Andrew McDowell for Atmospheric Entanglements:
Read more →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 2023. The recipients will carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
Read more →Students on the AIIS academic year Sanskrit program in Pune Carol Rodriguez-Gutierrez (University of Florida) and Shuheng Zhang (University of Pennsylvania) performed a play entirely in Sanskrit language at the R.N. Dandekar Sanskrit Drama Competition at Fergusson College in Pune on March 28, 2023. Sa Sumaramani—meaning “That
Read more →Howard University student Lydia Hill, who received an AIIS Digital India Learning Initiative summer student fellowship, created a virtual exhibit “A Peek Into Indigenous Furniture: Through the Eyes of Lydia Hill,” that was featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s widely distributed September 2022 IFLE Newsletter. The
Read more →AIIS gratefully acknowledges the generosity of colleagues who contributed to our 60th Anniversary Campaign (their names are listed below the announcement of the upcoming fellows). These contributions enabled AIIS to award three additional junior fellowships to non-U.S. citizens (for whom funding is otherwise limited) for 2022-24. These
Read more →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 out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
Read more →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 Humanities, Fellowship Programs at Independent Research (FPIRI) program. The award would be used to provide fellowships to
Read more →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 Museum in Jodhpur, India on March 15, 2022. The performance presented a little known aspect of the
Read more →It is with great sadness that we announce that Pradeep R. Mehendiratta, for many years the Director-General of AIIS, a person who did so much for the Institute and for generations of American scholars in India, left us on January 28th, 2022. He had tested positive for COVID-19
Read more →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 State of Delaware but as can be learned from the web site, its origins go back decades
Read more →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 AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) and Center for Art and
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