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Akshay is graduating with bachelor’s degrees in Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Political Science, as well as a certificate in South Asian Studies. Read the news article from University of Wisconsin–Madison News here.
CSA Undergraduate FLAS Fellow, Diya Abbas, has been awarded Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP) Funding for Spring 2023 by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts! Founded in 2021 and available to UW–Madison students in any year or major of study, ASAP supports projects or collective actions that use the arts as a force for social …
We are pleased to announce that the Center for South Asia has been awarded the Department of Education Title VI NRC grant for the remainder of the current grant cycle. This award will support national outreach activities and critical educational programming in South Asian Studies. We are grateful to everyone who supported and took part in the …
Alan Lee, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, has been selected as a recipient of the Dorothy Powelson Teaching Assistant Award for the 2022-2023 school year. Alan studies the archaeology of blacksmithing and ironworking in early historic South Asia. Congratulations Alan! To read more about this year’s TA Award recipients, click here.
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.
MFA student, Praveen Maripelly has been awarded the Creative Arts Award from the UW–Madison Division of Arts for the second year in a row! This 2023 honor has been awarded for his recent MFA thesis exhibition, “Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam” (The World is One Family).
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.
Visiting Fulbright scholar Dr. Tarun Jain has been awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the The Indian Econometric Society in the memory of the late Professor P. C. Mahalanobis for “outstanding contributions to quantitative economics, while working in India”. Dr. Jain is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
Aman Abhishek, PhD student in Journalism and Mass Communication has published an article in Digital Journalism entitled, “The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India.”