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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Anirban Baishya will join the UW Department of Communication and Arts in January. Anirban’s work broadly focuses on the intersections between digital media and the public sphere in a global context. He studies how digital media regulates everyday life spaces and how the ensuing “customization” of our participation …
Congratulations to Siddharth Mennon, of the Department of Geography for being awarded the AIIS Junior Fellowship for his project titled, “(De)Constructing Concrete: Capital, Nature, and Infrastructures in Urbanizing India.”
Jeremy Manheim, Ph.D. Student in Asian Languages & Cultures, has recently been awarded a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Fellowship to support 10 months of dissertation research about Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy in 2021-22.
The Center for South Asia is delighted to announce this year’s winners for our Undergraduate Paper Awards! Each year, participating IRIS centers award up to $1000 for the best undergraduate student writing in respective world areas. This year, our two CSA Undergraduate Paper Award winners are: “Investigating the 2002 Ethnic Conflict in Ahmedabad” by Amita …
Her campus legacy? The first South Asian a cappella singing group As a freshman, Mahima Bhattar noticed there was no a cappella singing team among the South Asian performing arts student organizations. She soon rectified that, founding Wisconsin Waale (Vaa-lay) as a sophomore. The name means “Wisconsin people” in Hindi. “We wanted to make sure …