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IRIS Assistant Directors receive Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant

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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 Fellowship, which connects Wisconsin middle school educators with experts in international studies, educational policy, community leadership, and trauma-informed pedagogy to …

Sachin Tuli named Director of International Business and Global Partnerships in WSB.

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We are excited to share that Professor Sachin Tuli, a valued faculty member affiliated with the Center for South Asia, has been appointed as the Director of International Business and Global Partnerships at the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB). As part of WSB’s new five-year strategy, Lead Boldly, this role is designed to strengthen global …

Prof. Viren Murthy awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award

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The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates Professor Viren Murthy, incoming CSA Director and Professor of History, on receiving the prestigious 2025–26 Kellett Mid-Career Award. Prof. Murthy’s research focuses on transnational Asian intellectual history, drawing on thinkers from China, Japan, India, and Germany to critically engage with modernity and theories of history. His interdisciplinary work …

IRIS Workshop Explores AI’s Future in Education, Business, and Beyond

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The Center for South Asia was proud to co-sponsor “AI and Society: Community Impacts and New Directions,” a two-day workshop hosted by UW–Madison’s IRIS centers at the Madison Concourse Hotel. Bringing together over 55 educators, business leaders, and community partners, the event explored the far-reaching implications of artificial intelligence—from education and journalism to environmental resilience …

Yue Qui receives 2025 International Division Pre-Dissertation Scholarship

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The Center for South Asia extends heartfelt congratulations to Yue Qiu, a second-year PhD student in History and CSA graduate student affiliate, for being awarded the 2025 International Division Pre-Dissertation Scholarship. Qiu’s doctoral research explores the vibrant cultural and intellectual exchanges between Bengal and China in the late-colonial and post-colonial eras. We are delighted to …

CSA graduate students receive 2025 IRIS Fieldwork Award

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The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates graduate student affiliates Srotaswini Bhowmick (History) and Arijit Banerjee (English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies) on receiving the 2025 IRIS Fieldwork Awards. Bhowmick, also a recipient of the IRIS/BLAC Foundation supplemental award, explores gender and subject formation in postcolonial India through the lens of film cultures shaped by the …

Shahana Munazir awarded CICW grant

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We are thrilled to share that Shahana Munazir, PhD candidate in Anthropology and a student affiliate at the Center for South Asia, has been awarded a research grant from the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW). This grant will support Shahana’s ongoing PhD work exploring practice of ethics, aspirations, care, and everyday religiosity …

Darshana Mini Wins Top Faculty Paper Award at ICA 2025

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The Center for South Asia is proud to announce that Prof. Darshana Mini, Assistant Professor and CSA faculty member in the Department of Communication Arts at UW–Madison, has been awarded the Top Faculty Paper Award by the Global Communication and Social Change (GCSC) Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) to be awarded in its …

Zara Chowdhary’s Lucky Ones Named Finalist for 2025 PEN America Literary Awards

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We are delighted to share that Lucky Ones, the debut book by CSA faculty member Zara Chowdhary, has been named a finalist for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards. In Lucky Ones, Chowdhary craftly blends fiction with archives, as she explores the lingering echoes of Partition, migration, and the ways silence moves through families. We celebrate …

Professor Usha Nilsson Receives Prestigious Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Award for Literary Excellence

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We are delighted to announce that Usha Nilsson (‘Priyamvada’), Emeritus Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a longtime affiliate of the Center for South Asia, has been awarded the Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Sarvashreshth Rachna Samman 2024. Presented under the Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Samman , this national literary recognition honors …