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Mitra Sharafi, professor and legal historian of modern South Asia at UW-Madison, was named president-elect of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) during the awards ceremony of the 2023 ASLH annual meeting in Philadelphia on Oct. 28, 2023. Sharafi will be president-elect of the ASLH in 2023-25 and will be president in 2025-27. Congratulations, Prof. Sharafi!
UW-Whitewater’s Roberta Art Gallery is honored to host UW-Madison Professor Anthony Cerulli and his work in “The Aesthetic Shape of History.” Cerulli’s photographs, which will be on display from Nov 8th to Dec 11th, demonstrates the power of the space in which these archives are stored. There will be a panel discussion, audience Q&A, and open …
Professor Viren Murthy’s new book, ‘Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution, was just published with the UChicago Press. The book is an intellectual history of pan-Asianist discourse in the twentieth century. Congratulations Prof. Murthy!
While in residence at the American Academy in Rome last year, Preeti Chopra, professor of Visual Studies, South Asian Art and Architecture in UW-Madison’s Department of Art History published the chapter “Greetings from Bombay! Pictures of Colonial Complexity” in the edited vol. “Indian Architecture in Postcards: A New Perspective on a Modern Heritage.” Congratulations, Prof. Chopra!
Prof. Mark Kenoyer’s co-authored book ‘The People of the Indus’ won the 2023 Neev Literature in the Young Adult category! Congratulations, Prof. Kenoyer!
Dr. Anthony Cerulli’s, ongoing multi-media project, Manuscriptistan, will have another photo-ethnography exhibit this fall (Nov. 8 – Dec. 11) at Roberta’s Art Gallery in Whitewater, WI: “The Aesthetic Shape of History”
New CSA faculty, Dr. Mikaela Chase has joined Asian Languages and Cultures Department at UW-Madison as Assistant Professor and inaugural Śrī Anantnāth Chair in Jain Studies. Dr. Chase brings with her a wealth of knowledge and a passion for research in Jain Studies at the intersections of law, anthropology of religion, and critical feminist scholarship in South Asia. Congratulations …
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.
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.