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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 South Asia. Congratulations Alan! To read more about this year’s TA Award recipients, click here.
CSA Director, Dr. Anthony Cerulli, has a photography exhibit opening at The Solarium Gallery at Houghton House (Hobart and William Smith Colleges). “The Archive as Art” presents the material heft and structural complexity of India’s centuries-old manuscript cultures as art objects and curated spaces that are at once aesthetically compelling and capable of conveying historical …
Professor Darshana Mini has been named as the 2023 recipient of the Byerly Award for Research in Feminist Policy Economy of Communication, which is awarded by the Feminist Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
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 exhibition, “Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam” (The World is One Family).
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.
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 working in India”. Dr. Jain is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
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, 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 Affairs. She also serves as an adjunct assistant professor for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Troy University, USA. …
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, final editing and links were done by South Asian Librarian, Todd Michelson-Ambelang, PhD. The document describes three aspects of the …
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 end of May. Please fill out this form to enter to win a book bundle from the South Asia Book Award.