Dirk Schmidt (PhD student in ALC) receives Fulbright FUSP Award for Nepal
Dirk Schmidt (PhD student in ALC) receives 2026-27 Fulbright Fulbright US Scholars Program Award for Nepal. Congratulations, Dirk!
A member of the International Division at UW-Madison
Dirk Schmidt (PhD student in ALC) receives 2026-27 Fulbright Fulbright US Scholars Program Award for Nepal. Congratulations, Dirk!
Professor Darshana Mini (Communication Arts) received a 2026 4W Innovation Award for her project “Telegeographies of Indian Migration: Malayan Imaginaries.” CSA graduate student Shrinjita Biswas (Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies) received a 4W Emerging Scholars Award for her project on “Performing Activism, Performing Transformation: The Feminist Street Theatre Movement and Social Justice in India.” Congratulations Darshana and …
Beginning July 1, UW’s South Asian Languages Cataloging Specialist Jonathan Durr will serve a two-year term as the South Asia Specialist for the ALA Core Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM). Specialists serve as a vital liaison by keeping the area studies community informed of cataloging developments and consulting members on relevant issues coming …
CSA Professor Mitra Sharafi’s book Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia has just been published for open access. Open Access publication of this book was made possible by research funding from the UW-Madison Law School. Download Professor Sharafi’s book here.
CSA faculty member Mou Banerjee was awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize by the Harvard University Press Board of Syndics for her book The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India. The Wilson Prize honors the memory of Thomas J. Wilson, director of Harvard University Press from 1947 to 1967. It is …
CSA faculty member Darshana Mini received honorable mention for the MLA Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies for her book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India, published by the University of California Press. Congratulations, Professor Mini!