This list contains courses both explicitly on a South Asian topic (“History by Bollywood”, “Introduction to Modern South Asia”) and courses with an international or thematic focus taught by South Asia Center affiliated faculty (“Writing Workshop for Public Scholarship”). Always double-check the UW Time Schedule for the most current course information.

Art works by two School of Art faculty affiliated with the South Asia Center were recently on display in prominent Mumbai galleries. Assistant Professor in Painting + Drawing, Sangram Majumdar, and Lecturer in Painting + Drawing, Kuldeep Singh, were part of the 11th edition of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend, which ran January 11 – 14 in

Farrah Hasan is a second-year Master’s student at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and 2023-24 FLAS fellow in Advanced Bangla. In summer 2023, she undertook fieldwork in Mongla, Bangladesh to conduct research as part of her Master’s thesis, interviewing flood induced and non-flood induced migrants regarding their quality of life, as well as

“Almost 80 million people speak Telugu,” says Hanuma Kodavalla. “Not many people know its richness as a language and culture.” He and his wife recently established the Hanuma and Anuradha Kodavalla Endowed Chair in Telugu at the UW. The generous gift provides an invaluable addition to the College of Arts & Sciences and Department of

  UW Libraries recently acquired subscription to Khabar Lahariya and KL Hatke, their premium English subscription service. Khabar Lahariya is India’s first and only women-led digital news publication that focuses on gender and education with a mission to build a bridge between rural and urban India. KL Hatke is exclusive rural journalism at its finest,

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

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