Tag: south asian studies faculty

Prof. Anthony Cerulli Returns as Incoming CSA Director

Previous CSA Director Anthony Cerulli has been on research leave for the 2021-22 academic year, with Rikhil Bhavnani, Associate Professor of Political Science, serving as the Acting CSA Director during this time. Professor Anthony Cerulli will return in the AY22-23 to continue serving his second year as CSA Director. Congratulations!

Mou Banerjee wins Teaching Award

Congratulations to Dr. Mou Banerjee on receiving the Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the History Department, UW–Madison!

Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes wins a 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award!

Congratulations to Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Professor of Law, on receiving the 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award! Read the full announcement here.

The Database of Printed Modern Drama in India is now live!

Congratulations to Professor Aparna Dharwadker on the launching of the Database of Printed Modern Drama in India! The Database of Printed Modern Drama in India is the first digital resource to offer bibliographic information about plays published in sixteen Indian languages, from the 1840s to the present. In alphabetical order, the languages are: Assamese, Bengali, …

Prof. Anthony Cerulli’s The Practice of Texts published!

Congratulations to Prof. Anthony Cerulli, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, on the publication of The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India with the University of California Press on March 15. The book will also be available open access on UCP’s Luminos. Read more about the book here. 

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. 

Professor Asifa Quraishi Landes Wins a 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

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.

Former CSA Faculty Director honored with Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

Christine Garlough, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and former Faculty Director of the Center for South Asia, was one of thirteen faculty members honored with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Complete profiles of all honorees are available here. Please join us in congratulating Professor Garlough and all the honorees!