In the November 2023 Special Issue Newsletter published by the U.S. Department of Education Office of International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE), the University of Washington’s five National Resource Centers, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and housed at the Jackson School, are featured for their program impact and outreach following a site visit by

MA in South Asia Studies South Asia Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington, Seattle Deadline: January 31, 2024 Learn More and Apply The South Asia Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington invites applications for the MA in South Asia Studies program. Located in beautiful Seattle, the University of Washington

For more than a decade, UW History professor Purnima Dhavan and Asian Languages and Literature professor Heidi Pauwels have been collaborating on a book project titled Urdu’s Origins Revisited: Vali Dakhani’s Reception in Multilingual South Asia. In a recent blog post, the Department of History highlighted the ongoing collaboration, which includes a recent NEH grant

During Spring Quarter 2023 Prof. Heidi Pauwels organized an informal reading group of the famous Classical Hindi version of the story of the Rāmāyana by the 16th-17th century poet Tulsīdās, sometimes referred to as the Bible of North Indian Hinduism. This was occasioned by the new publication of a reading guide featuring selections from the

Assistant Teaching Professor of Hindi Language Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/130043 UW: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=121417 Chronicle of Higher Education: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37512258/assistant-teaching-professor/ Description The Department of Asian Languages & Literature at the University of Washington seeks to appoint a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor in Hindi. The initial appointment, starting Autumn Quarter 2024, is for three years, with the possibility of renewal. The

Saad Khan, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, has been awarded the prestigious Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship in Social Sciences for his groundbreaking research on LGBTQ activism in Bangladesh. Khan’s dissertation, titled “Nascent Moves: Loss, Desire, and In/visible LGBTQ Resistances in Bangladesh,” challenges the prevailing narrative that acts of violence

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Migration & Health: Perspectives from South Asia October 12 – 13, 2023 Seattle, Washington Brief description: Human migration is a defining issue of our time and is increasingly recognized as a global public health priority. Migration has long been linked to the transmission of diseases and health risks, especially in

Cabeiri Robinson, Associate Professor of International Studies, co-edited the recently published Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (Palgrave MacMillan), which provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. From the publisher: Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan

Over the last year, faculty affiliated with the South Asia Center published ample scholarly articles, book chapters and reviews on diverse topics related to South Asia. From global health to climate change, politics and culture to gender and literature, our faculty engage in lively debates and make important contributions to the field of South Asia

From the Department of Asian Languages & Literature: As of Winter 2023, the new major and minor in South Asian Languages and Cultures are live! The major is 65 credits. Students can go in depth with a single South Asian language or combine two South Asian languages from our offerings (Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu), along