The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates Magna Mohapatra, graduate student, on receiving the Percy Buchanan Award for South Asia 2025 for the best original graduate student research paper for their paper, “Paradox of Degrowth: The Decolonial Niyamgiri Being.” They have also been nominated by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to present this paper …
The Center for South Asia extends heartfelt congratulations to Yue Qiu, a second-year PhD student in History and CSA graduate student affiliate, for being awarded the 2025 International Division Pre-Dissertation Scholarship. Qiu’s doctoral research explores the vibrant cultural and intellectual exchanges between Bengal and China in the late-colonial and post-colonial eras. We are delighted to …
The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates graduate student affiliates Srotaswini Bhowmick (History) and Arijit Banerjee (English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies) on receiving the 2025 IRIS Fieldwork Awards. Bhowmick, also a recipient of the IRIS/BLAC Foundation supplemental award, explores gender and subject formation in postcolonial India through the lens of film cultures shaped by the …
We are thrilled to share that Shahana Munazir, PhD candidate in Anthropology and a student affiliate at the Center for South Asia, has been awarded a research grant from the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW). This grant will support Shahana’s ongoing PhD work exploring practice of ethics, aspirations, care, and everyday religiosity …
The Center for South Asia is thrilled to announce that Shahana Munazir, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and Program Assistant at the Center, has won the prestigious 2024 Sylvia Forman Graduate paper Prize from the Association for Feminist Anthropology. Shahana will be honored with the award at the upcoming American Anthropological Association …
We are proud to feature the work of Siddharth Menon in L&S News. His innovative research on “A Concrete Solution” is gaining recognition. Read the full article here.
We are thrilled to announce that two of our graduate students, Magna Mohapatra and Bidisha Mukherjee have been awarded the prestigious Institute for Regional and International Studies annual Scott Kloeck-Jenson Dissertation Fellowship for the year 2024. This is a testament to their outstanding scholarly contributions and dedication to their research in South Asia. Congratulations! …
Department of Geography PhD student, Sahil Sasidharan, has been awarded both the IRIS-NRC Scott-Kloeck Jenson Pre-Dissertation Travel Fellowship and Holtz Center’s STS Summer Scholar Award for this summer! Sahil’s research focuses on cities and processes of urbanization.
Alan Lee, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, has been selected as a recipient of the Dorothy Powelson Teaching Assistant Award for the 2022-2023 school year. Alan studies the archaeology of blacksmithing and ironworking in early historic South Asia. Congratulations Alan! To read more about this year’s TA Award recipients, click here.
MFA student, Praveen Maripelly has been awarded the Creative Arts Award from the UW-Madison Division of Arts for the second year in a row! This 2023 honor has been awarded for his recent MFA thesis exhibition, “Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam” (The World is One Family).