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 …
Co-PIs Dr. Anirban Baishya (Communication Arts) and Dr. Todd Michelson-Ambelang (Senior Academic Librarian for South Asian Studies) received a Library Research Enhancement Initiative grant for their project “Indian Media & Communication at the Turn of Liberalization.” Congratulations! Read about the project here.
Congratulations to Rachel Weiss, ALC Advisor, on winning a 2021-22 College of Letters & Science Advising Distinguished Achievement Award!
“Our Libraries are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries” by Dr. Todd Michelson-Ambelang, Senior Academic Librarian for Scandinavian Humanities and South Asian Studies, was published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.Read the article here
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 …
Laura Hammond, Administrative Director of the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), was one of eight academic staff members honored with Excellence Awards by Chancellor Rebecca Blank. Hammond’s award is in recognition of her service as administrative director of SASLI, as well her outstanding work and leadership with the South Asian Flagship Languages Initiative and …