Congratulations to professor Gudrun Bühnemann, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, who was awarded the American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Fellowship, for her project titled, “Visions of Patañjali as an Authority on Yoga, Grammar and Āyurveda
Affiliate Faculty
Faculty from other UW system universities and around the state of Wisconsin who are affiliated with the Center for South Asia at UW-Madison.
Professor B. Venkat Mani, writes for the Hindustan Times on the crisis in Afganistan
Professor B. Venkat Mani, former director of the Center for South Asia wrote recently for the Hindustan Times about the emerging situation with refugees from Afghanistan. The piece is titled, “Empires slay, publics pay: The …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker Receives Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Professor Aparna Dharwadker received one of this year’s Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support her latest book project, “Contested Modernities and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India.”
Professor Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker Awarded 2020 Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama and Theatre
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 …
Professor Mitra Sharafi Awarded 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Mitra Sharafi, Professor of Law and Center for South Asia faculty member, has been awarded a 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Students commend Sharafi for her classroom innovation — in particular, her carefully cultivated skill …
Faculty Director Anthony Cerulli Wins NEH Book Fellowship
Anthony Cerulli (Center for South Asia Faculty Director and Associate Professor of South Asian Studies) has been selected to receive one of ten National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Award fellowships. Dr. Cerulli’s forthcoming …
Todd Michelson-Ambelang part of $5 Million Mellon Foundation grant to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy
Todd Michelson-Ambelang, Associate Lecturer and Bibliographer for Scandinavian Humanities, Classics, Jewish, and South Asian Studies, together with a team of interdisciplinary collaborators across UW–Madison, have been awarded $5 million by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation …
December 2020 Newsletter
The December 2020 Center for South Asia Newsletter is now online. We are so proud of the many accomplishments of out our students, staff, and faculty amidst what has proven to be an extraordinarily challenging …
New Faculty Profile – Priya Mukherjee
In October, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences published an interview with new faculty member, Priya Mukherjee (Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics). Read the full interview here.
CSA Affiliate Faculty Awarded Research Grant
Luke Whitmore, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UW-Stevens Point, has been awarded a research grant by the American Academy of Religion for his work Ecology, Post-Secularism, and Cosmopolitics in the Central Indian Himalaya. The full list …