Professor Anthony Cerulli Awarded a 2022-23 Vilas Associates Award.
Professor Anthony Cerulli is an awardee in the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition. Find the complete list of winners here.
A member of the International Division at UW-Madison
Professor Anthony Cerulli is an awardee in the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition. Find the complete list of winners here.
Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Professor of Law, has won a 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. See the full list of winners here.
Prof. Banerjee lends a historical perspective to the Taliban’s role in Afghanistan, discusses the role of Sharia law, and offers some clarification on common misconceptions surrounding the relationship between the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Watch the full interview at Channel 3000 News.
Professor Aparna Dharwadker received one of this year’s Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support her latest book project, “Contested Modernities and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India.”
The 2020 Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama and Theatre has been awarded to A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theater Theory, 1850 to the Present, (Oxford University Press), edited by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. The prize recognizes the book’s signal contribution to Drama and Theatre studies. A Poetics of Modernity assembles and makes accessible, to readers …
Mitra Sharafi, Professor of Law and Center for South Asia faculty member, has been awarded a 2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Students commend Sharafi for her classroom innovation — in particular, her carefully cultivated skill at facilitating classroom discussion. Over the years she has come to focus more and more on the importance of visual …
Anthony Cerulli (Center for South Asia Faculty Director and Associate Professor of South Asian Studies) has been selected to receive one of ten National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Award fellowships. Dr. Cerulli’s forthcoming book, The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India, will be completely open access when it is published …
On the final day of remote classes last fall, students in one of Assistant Professor Mou Banerjee’s history courses surprised her with a gesture that nearly brought her to tears. One by one, the students held up homemade posters in front of their computer cameras, revealing a series of heartfelt thank-you messages. “We could all …
Todd Michelson-Ambelang, Associate Lecturer and Bibliographer for Scandinavian Humanities, Classics, Jewish, and South Asian Studies, together with a team of interdisciplinary collaborators across UW–Madison, have been awarded $5 million by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).
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.