We are delighted to share that Professor Darshana Sreedhar Mini’s book, Rated A, has been awarded the 2025 Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Caucus Outstanding Book Award by the National Communication Association (NCA). This …
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Congratulations to Dr Anirban K. Baishya on National Communication Association Recognition
We are delighted to congratulate Dr Anirban K. Baishya on receiving the Outstanding Article Award from the Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division/Caucus at the National Communication Association (NCA). This distinguished honor highlights his significant contributions …
Anthony Cerulli named Artist-in-Residence at Max Planck Institute
The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates Anthony Cerulli on being named Artist-in-Residence (AiR) for the 2025–26 academic year at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPI) in Berlin, Germany. At MPI, …
IRIS Assistant Directors receive Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant
Andrea Fowler (Assistant Director, CSA), Essie Lenchner (Assistant Director, IRIS NRC), and Nola Walker (IAS Outreach Librarian, UW–Madison Libraries) have been awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant. This three-year grant supports their Teaching Forward …
UW-Madison Center for South Asia Receives Department of Education Title VI NRC Award
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 …
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 …
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.”