We are pleased to announce that the Center for South Asia has been awarded the Department of Education Title VI NRC grant for the remainder of the current grant cycle. This award will support national outreach activities …
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PhD candidate, Alan Lee, selected for 2022-2023 Teaching Assistant Award
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 …
MFA student, Praveen Maripelly named as 2023 Creative Arts Awards recipient
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 …
Professor Mou Banerjee publishes an article in The Daily Star
Professor Mou Banerjee has published an article entitled “Munshi Meherullah of Jessore and religious identity in 19th century Bengal” in The Daily Star, a leading Bangladeshi English newspaper. Click here to read.
Dr. Tarun Jain awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the The Indian Econometric Society
Visiting Fulbright scholar Dr. Tarun Jain has been awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the The Indian Econometric Society in the memory of the late Professor P. C. Mahalanobis for “outstanding contributions to quantitative economics, while …
Zara Chowdhary signs book deal for political memoir, “The Lucky Ones”
Hindi instructor Zara Chowdhary (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures) recently signed a book deal with Crown Publishing and Penguin Random House for her political memoir The Lucky Ones. Chowdhary will be working with senior editor …
PhD student, Aman Abhishek, publishes article in Digital Journalism
Aman Abhishek, PhD student in Journalism and Mass Communication has published an article in Digital Journalism entitled, “The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India.”
CSA Alumna, Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell, publishes book “Devas, Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka”
CSA alumna, Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell, has recently published a book with Routledge entitled “Devas, Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka.” Gunasekara-Rockwell is the assistant editor of the US Department of the Air Force’s Journal of Indo-Pacific …
A Story on the College Year in India Program
This document describes the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College Year in India Program. It was written in a prose format by Professor Emeritus Joseph W. Elder and Associate Dean Emerita Joan A. Raducha, PhD. The collation, …
SABA Book Bundle Giveaway!
SABA is giving away book bundles for K-12 teachers, education faculty, and librarians. There are two picture book bundles, a middle grade bundle and a YA bundle. SABA hopes to complete the giveaway by the …