The 2020 Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama and Theatre has been awarded to A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theater Theory, 1850 to the Present, (Oxford University Press), edited by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. The …
Jeremy Manheim Receives Ho Buddhist Studies Fellowship
Jeremy Manheim, Ph.D. Student in Asian Languages & Cultures, has recently been awarded a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Fellowship to support 10 months of dissertation research about Indian and …
2021 Undergraduate Paper Award Winners
The Center for South Asia is delighted to announce this year’s winners for our Undergraduate Paper Awards! Each year, participating IRIS centers award up to $1000 for the best undergraduate student writing in respective world …
Samantha Helle Awarded Boren Fellowship for Nepal
Photo courtesy of Samantha Helle. Samantha Helle, Conservation Biology PhD Student, was awarded a Boren Fellowship! Helle will use the Boren Fellowship to help fund research on the endangered tiger population across the world, but …
2021-22 Academic Year FLAS Awards Now Open (Including Tamil!)
CSA is now accepting applications for half-year FLAS awards for Fall 2021 or Spring 2022. Students studying any South Asia language at UW-Madison may apply: Hindi, Persian, Tibetan, or Urdu. We also encourage students who …
Spring 2021 Graduate Feature: Mahima Bhattar
Her campus legacy? The first South Asian a cappella singing group As a freshman, Mahima Bhattar noticed there was no a cappella singing team among the South Asian performing arts student organizations. She soon rectified …
COVID-19 Support in South Asia: Links to Support Organizations and Citizen Initiatives
From the South Asia Center at the University of Washington: Numerous humanitarian organizations, NGOs, and citizen initiatives are working to support populations hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia, where social distancing and shelter-in-place …
Announcing the UW Madison College Year in India and Nepal Archive Project
We are excited to announce the UW Madison College Year in India and Nepal Archive Project! The project will document the stories of alumni who participated on the College Year in India and Nepal programs. …
Alan Lee, Anthropology PhD Candidate, Receives Exceptional Service Award
Alan Lee, a dissertator in the Department of Anthropology who studies the archaeology of blacksmithing and iron working in Early Historic South Asia (approx. 500 BCE), was awarded a 2021 Exceptional Service Teaching Assistant Award. …
Parwat Regmi Recognized for 2021 Administrative Improvement Award
Parwat Regmi (Nepali—English Interpreter & Translator, Workplace Computer Trainer), along with the Cultural Linguistics Services Team, was recognized for an 2021 Administrative Improvement Award for their “Cultural Linguistic Services WhatsApp Initiative.” Read more.