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CSA alumna, Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell, has recently published a book with Routledge entitled “Devas, Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka.” Gunasekara-Rockwell is the assistant editor of the US Department of the Air Force’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs. She also serves as an adjunct assistant professor for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Troy University, USA. …
Congratulations Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him), PhD Candidate in Southeast and South Asian History! Tyler has recently published an article in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions titled “Dangerous Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Buddhist Laṅkā and Siam.” You can read the article by clicking here. The article considers how the kingdoms of Kandy (in what is …
Professor Preeti Chopra has been featured in “Fueling Discovery 2022,” a supplement to the most recent issue of the Wisconsin State Journal. To read her article, click here and view pages 18 and 19. We are so happy to see her work recognized and shared with the wider community!
MFA student, Praveen Maripelly, has been named a 2022-2023 Mary Christine Kohler Fellow. His project “seeks to blur lines between gender and caste issues, address institutional racism and colourism, and build social interactions and relations between people in rural areas and the greater global community through ethical components of generosity, hospitality, connections, and social aesthetic …
Beloved member of the CSA and larger UW–Madison community, Joann Elder, will be celebrated with a memorial gathering on October 29th. Joann and her husband Professor Joe Elder were both key figures in the establishment and growth of the Center and the College Year in India and Nepal program onward since the 1960s. Having both taught and conducted research …
Professors Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Anirban Baishya (Department of Communication Arts) have co-edited a special edition of Porn Studies journal, which focuses on South Asian pornographies.
Ph.D. student Zishan Jiwani and Professor Simon Goldberg (Department of Counseling Psychology) have published a paper in the Journal of Social Issues entitled “Caste and COVID-19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic.”
Sahil Sasidharan, Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography, has received the Top-Up Fellowship from the Holtz Center for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years.
Ujaan Ghosh, Ph.D. student, published an article, “The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Culcutta”, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Congratulations to Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Shahana Munazir on receiving fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)! Darshana Sreedhar Mini, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out the project “Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India.” Professor Mini’s fellowship is funded by …