Selected Faculty Research Professor Manish Chalana, Assistant Professor in the Urban Design and Planning Department, conducted field work in India through the support of the Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in 2014 to work on developing a book length manuscript on the history, theory and practice of historic preservation in India from

Loritta Ying Ping Chan BA, Economics & South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Originally from Hong Kong, Loritta will begin at UW in the fall to begin her MA in South Asia Studies, where she plans to study Hindi. Having approached development from an economic perspective as an undergraduate, she wants to dwell deeper into

The UW South Asia program graduated nine students in 2015. Our graduating students have been heavily involved in the university community during their time here. Both Thilini Kahandawaarachchi and Mansi Majithia represented the South Asia program students by serving in the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. Majithia, along with Quinn Clark, Nick Gottschall, and Hannah

Historians have approached the dramatic experience of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan with different perspectives over the years, struggling to grapple with such a pivotal and traumatic portion of South Asia history. Early works focused on high politics, elite decision makers, and questions of causation. Later, influenced by feminist scholarship, scholarship turned to the lived

In spring 2015, 30 Seattle area K-12 teachers attended Global Asia: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow as part of the  Newspapers In Education series. Our own Anand Yang, Golub Professor of International Studies and Chair of the UW Department of History, authored four articles on global Asia that appeared in the Seattle Times over the course of four weeks. Early

Professor of South Asia Studies Cabeiri Robinson has spoken with the UW Simpson Center about her research on Humanitarian Jihadists for her book in progress, Fault Lines: Humanitarian Jihad, Humanitarian Business, and the Making of a Post-Conflict Tourist Industry in Northern Pakistan. In this video she discusses the change in mindsets among young Kashmiri militants in the

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington houses 1,800 costumes and textiles from the Indian subcontinent, representing 24 states in India and Pakistan. This forms an important resource for the study of the rich variety of woven, printed, dyed, and embroidered textile traditions in cotton and silk and the linguistic, ethnic, and caste

2015 South Asia MA alumna Jessica Bachman is studying Bengali in Calcutta this summer, and recently provided photographs for The Guardian on new public art highlighting the crisis “the missing girls in India” who are forced in prostitution. Each year in India tens of thousands of girls go missing in a country where an estimated 1.2

South Asia Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies Graduate Student Handbook 2015-16 Welcome to the South Asia Studies Program at the Jackson School of International Studies. The two-year program in South Asia Studies will equip students with intensive language training, expose students to the most important debates and ideas in South Asia Studies, and

The following South Asia specific resources are selected from the Newspapers in Education series, a collaborative effort between the Seattle Times and the Global Studies and Asia Title VI Resource Centers in the Jackson School of International Studies at UW. Global Energy Today: The Asian Nexus (2017) The Asian Nexus, Introduction Some Fundamental Problems of