Professor Manish Chalana recently returned from field work in India. He was supported by 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 the British Colonial up to the present times.

Students here at the University of Washington in Assistant Professor Jessica Kaminsky‘s Civil Engineering in Developing Countries class were recently featured in UW Today for their work in assisting with the Nepal earthquake relief effort. Using OpenStreetMap software, the students have been using satellite images to generate high quality, real-time maps for use in the

Two new hires in the history department have area expertise in South Asia and will be joining UW South Asia faculty this fall: Matthew Mosca has accepted the position of assistant professor specializing in the history of Imperial China. Matthew Mosca is currently assistant professor of Chinese history at the College of William & Mary.

The South Asia Center is delighted to welcome to UW’s Anthropology Department Radhika Govindrajan, a sociocultural anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research in India’s Central Himalayas, exploring the everyday relations and intimacies between humans and the animals they raise, care for, sacrifice, and sell. Dr. Govindrajan will contribute new strengths in environmental anthropology, long a special

Literature and Culture of Ancient India: Love and War ASIAN 203 Autumn Quarter 2015 MW 12:30-2:20pm CDH  105 The topic of this course is the literature and culture of ancient and classical India (South Asia).  It covers the period from the middle of the second millennium BCE. through the end of the first millennium CE.

Awards and honors: FLAS (Advanced Hindi 2013-2014, Intermediate Urdu 2014-2015) Interests: Popular politics and democracy, politics of development and poverty, social movements, and globalization in India. MA paper titles: (1) World Bank Versus Vote Bank: Governance, Development, and the Bahujan State in Mayawati’s Uttar Pradesh. (2) Capturing Power, Capturing Development: The Dalit Pursuit of Empowerment

UW assistant professor of anthropology Sareeta Amrute recently published her article “Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization” in the Spring 2015 volume of Public Culture. This essay reads the case of rape in moving vehicles against the texture of an unfinished liberalization. I argue that the violence of this gang rape and similar cases is firmly tied

UW Art History Professor Sonal Khullar has debuted her first book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India in May 2015. “Beautifully written, compellingly argued, Sonal Khullar’s book not only offers a major contribution to the study of Indian modernism, it also advances our methodological understanding of modern art at large. A vital addition

Last Saturday the South Asia Center was pleased to host “Adabi Nashist: An Urdu Literary Session.  – complete with chai and samosas. Organized by Jameel Ahmad and Jennifer Dubrow (UW Department of Asian Language & Literature), the event brought together students of Urdu and Hindi from elementary to advanced levels of study, the local South Asian

As part of their Global Competencies in 21st Century Asian Studies Initiative, the University of Washington’s Asian Studies and Global Studies Centers seek proposals by Community College full time, part time, and adjunct faculty for new course development, revision of an existing course, or creation of a new course module. Faculty from all disciplines are