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CSA faculty member Darshana Mini received honorable mention for the MLA Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies for her book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India, published by the University of California Press. Congratulations, Professor Mini!
The Center for South Asia at UW–Madison recently hosted the 53rd Annual Conference on South Asia, the largest and most preeminent annual academic forum for South Asian studies worldwide. With over 1,000 registered participants, the four-day conference offered a massive platform for discussion, spanning 15 symposia, 141 panels, and 32 roundtables. Faculty and graduate students …
We are delighted to share that Professor Darshana Sreedhar Mini’s book, Rated A, has been awarded the 2025 Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Caucus Outstanding Book Award by the National Communication Association (NCA). This prestigious national honor recognizes outstanding scholarship that advances understanding of Asian/Pacific American communication. Congratulations to Professor Mini …
We are delighted to congratulate Dr Anirban K. Baishya on receiving the Outstanding Article Award from the Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division/Caucus at the National Communication Association (NCA). This distinguished honor highlights his significant contributions to the field of communication studies and reflects the impact of his scholarly work. We are proud to …
The Center for South Asia celebrates Professor Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker on the release of her new book, Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms. This pioneering study examines multilingual modernist theater in India, showcasing the work of major Indian playwrights and their innovative contributions to regional, national, and global modernisms.
The Center for South Asia congratulates Professor Gudrun Bühnemann on the publication of her new book, Scholar, Serpent, Yogin, and Devotee: The Many Faces of Patañjali in Indian Traditions. The book explores Patañjali’s multifaceted roles in Indian traditions, highlighting him as a grammarian, yoga scholar, physician, teacher, ascetic, and devotee of the Dancing Śiva.
The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates Magna Mohapatra, graduate student, on receiving the Percy Buchanan Award for South Asia 2025 for the best original graduate student research paper for their paper, “Paradox of Degrowth: The Decolonial Niyamgiri Being.” They have also been nominated by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to present this paper …
The Center for South Asia warmly congratulates Anthony Cerulli on being named Artist-in-Residence (AiR) for the 2025–26 academic year at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPI) in Berlin, Germany. At MPI, Anthony will continue exploring the interplay of art-making, aesthetics, and knowledge curation, developing new material and media for his Manuscriptistan …
Andrea Fowler (Assistant Director, CSA), Essie Lenchner (Assistant Director, IRIS NRC), and Nola Walker (IAS Outreach Librarian, UW–Madison Libraries) have been awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant. This three-year grant supports their Teaching Forward Fellowship, which connects Wisconsin middle school educators with experts in international studies, educational policy, community leadership, and trauma-informed pedagogy to …
We are excited to share that Professor Sachin Tuli, a valued faculty member affiliated with the Center for South Asia, has been appointed as the Director of International Business and Global Partnerships at the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB). As part of WSB’s new five-year strategy, Lead Boldly, this role is designed to strengthen global …