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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 …
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 …
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 Gurindar (Guri) Sohi—Vilas Research Professor, John P. Morgridge Professor, and E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison—has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC by the IEEE Computer Society. Sohi is the first person from UW–Madison to receive this honor, which recognizes individuals whose …
Congratulations to Dr. Miki Chase, Assistant Professor and Śrī Anantnāth Chair in Jain Studies faculty at Asian Languages and Culture (ALC) and CSA affiliate faculty, on her acceptance into the prestigious Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School for 2025-2026. As a Research Associate, she will teach a course, deliver a lecture, …
The Center for South Asia is delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India,’ authored by Prof. Mou Banerjee, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work delves into the period following the British Crown’s 1813 policy permitting Protestant missionary evangelism in India. Prof. …
The Center for South Asia is delighted to announce that Prof. Darshana Mini has been awarded the prestigious APAC Early Career Award by the National Communication Association (NCA). This award honors early career scholars who have made significant contributions to communication scholarship on Asian-Pacific communities and exhibit exceptional promise for the field of communication studies. …
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis, has awarded Dr. Mikaela Chase the 2024 Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Best Dissertation Prize for her outstanding work titled ‘Ideality and Impossibility in the Contemporary Practice of the Jain Fast Until Death.’ Dr. Chase currently serves as Assistant Professor in the Department …
The Center for South Asia congratulates Prof. B. Venkat Mani on being awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Prize. This award recognizes Prof. Mani’s outstanding contributions to the field of literary studies and supports his continued research collaboration with scholars in Germany. His work focuses on global migration, multilingualism, and the role of world literature, making …
We are excited to announce that Mou Banerjee’s new book, available in January 2025, is titled ‘The Disinherited: The Exiles Who Created Indian Democracy.’ You can learn more about the book and pre-order here: Harvard University Press.