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UW-Milwaukee Sociology Professor and CSA Faculty Affiliate A. Aneesh was recently featured in a CNN series about the “Y2K bug.” The piece recalls millennial anxieties that were as global as the pandemic is now, highlighting the role of Indian programmers in fixing the bug.
Please join us in congratulating CSA and UW Madison Law School Professor Mitra Sharafi for winning one of this year’s prestigious Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards!
The December 2020 Center for South Asia Newsletter is now online. We are so proud of the many accomplishments of out our students, staff, and faculty amidst what has proven to be an extraordinarily challenging year. Check it out to get up to date on what the Center has been up to over the past …
The 2021 South Asia Summer Language Institute, along with summer & academic year FLAS grants, are now accepting applications. Now is the perfect time to apply to fund and study a South Asian language!
This announcement first appeared on November 27, 2020. A message from Guido Podesta, vice provost and dean, International Division I am pleased to announce the creation of a new unit in the International Division—the Language Programs Office (LPO). LPO will provide a centralized home for many of the programs administered by the International Division, including …
The Center for South Asia is pleased to welcome incoming Assistant Director Andrea Fowler on December 1st. Andrea Fowler has served the Center as office manager since 2017, coordinating events and communications across a variety of Center programs. In her new role as Assistant Director, she will oversee the Annual Conference on South Asia and …
In October, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences published an interview with new faculty member, Priya Mukherjee (Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics). Read the full interview here.
Assistant Professor of History and member of the South Asian Studies faculty Mou Banerjee recently published the introduction to a teaching roundtable on decolonizing pedagogy. Professor Banerjee’s introduction is available here, along with the complete roundtable essays.
Among the many lessons highlighted by the current pandemic is the need to be able to understand and reimagine instruction, especially as many educators and students grapple with questions about the benefits and challenges of in-person and remote modes of delivery of instructional programs. With the support of a $173,168 grant, UW–Madison will conduct a …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has once again been named one of the top universities in the country by Washington Monthly magazine, ranking 21st overall (up from 23rd last year) and 12th among public universities (up from 13th last year). Click here for the full article.