University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Graduate Students

PhD Candidate, Tyler Lehrer publishes article in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions

Congratulations Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History! Tyler has recently published an article in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions titled “Dangerous Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Buddhist Laṅkā and Siam.” You can read the article by clicking here. The article considers how the kingdoms of Kandy (in what is …

MFA student, Praveen Maripelly, named a 2022-2023 Mary Christine Kohler Fellow

MFA student, Praveen Maripelly, has been named a 2022-2023 Mary Christine Kohler Fellow. His project “seeks to blur lines between gender and caste issues, address institutional racism and colourism, and build social interactions and relations between people in rural areas and the greater global community through ethical components of generosity, hospitality, connections, and social aesthetic …

Celebrating the life of beloved CSA community member, Joann Elder (1929-2022)

Beloved member of the CSA and larger UW-Madison community, Joann Elder, will be celebrated with a memorial gathering on October 29th. Joann and her husband Professor Joe Elder were both key figures in the establishment and growth of the Center and the College Year in India and Nepal program onward since the 1960s. Having both taught and conducted research …

Ph.D. student Zishan Jiwani and Professor Simon Goldberg publish article in Journal of Social Sciences

Ph.D. student Zishan Jiwani and Professor Simon Goldberg (Department of Counseling Psychology) have published a paper in the Journal of Social Issues entitled “Caste and COVID-19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic.”

Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Shahana Munazir Receive AIIS Fellowships

Congratulations to Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Shahana Munazir on receiving fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)! Darshana Sreedhar Mini, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out the project “Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India.” Professor Mini’s fellowship is funded by …

Saloni Bhogale wins a 2022 IRIS Fieldwork Award

Saloni Bhogale, PhD student working on Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science, was one among seven UW-Madison students who received the IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award. She plans to do fieldwork in Indian courts in Mumbai and Delhi in order to further her research on the effects of diversity in the judiciary. …