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Prof. Aparna Dharwadker received the 2026 Book Award from the Modernist Studies Association for her book Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms (Columbia University Press, 2025). Congratulations!
Professor Darshana Mini was selected for the National Communication Association‘s Feminist & Gender Studies Division Bonnier Ritter Book Award for her book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India. Congratulations!
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.
Professor Aparna Dharwadker is one of six diasporic professional women in Madison featured in a video produced in conjunction with Forward Theatre’s production of the play Ironbound (Overture Centre, 29 January-15 February), by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok. The 25-minute video plays in a loop on a screen in The Playhouse lobby on the evenings when performances of …
Excerpts from Professor Mou Banerjee’s latest book, The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India (Harvard University Press), appear in The Wire. Congratulations, Professor Banerjee!
The UW–Madison Center for South Asia is grateful for your continued support of the Annual Conference on South Asia. Last year’s conference offered us the opportunity to welcome many first-time attendees to the ACSA community and connect with our vibrant community of scholars. The submission portal for the 54th Annual Conference on South Asia will …