Anita Harker is a sociologist at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Washington. Harker received an Asian Studies Development Grant from the Jackson School to develop and teach a new course on Nepal. She traveled to Nepal in 2018 to gain a fresh perspective on the country as she prepared the new course; below are her

JSIS South Asia faculty member Christian L. Novetzke was interviewed on NPR’s Rough Translation about the Americanization of yoga and India’s close watch over a California lawsuit about the appropriation of yoga. Associate Professor Sunila Kale was also acknowledged by NPR for her contribution to the podcast.

UW Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Faisal Hossain has produced Cotton Fields From the Ivory Tower, a film on his work with farmers in Pakistan on using and adapting technology to better help them manage scarce water resources. Hossain has done similar work in Bangladesh, and has also started a film competition for engineers.

UW Associate Professor Sareeta Amrute was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association for her book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin (Duke University Press, 2016). The Diana Forsythe Prize was created in 1998 to celebrate the best book or series of published articles in the spirit of Diana Forsythe’s feminist anthropological research on work, science,

From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Seattle by Shariq Khan The South Asia Center at the University of Washington is delighted to be hosting two scholars from Pakistan, Zeb Khan and Syed Wasif Azim, who are visiting for a 6-month period. I had the chance to sit down with Zeb and Wasif on the 28th of September to

South Asia faculty Sunila S. Kale and Christian Novetzke continue their explorations of the global presence of yoga with Yoga and the Means and Ends of Secularism in The Wire. “In 2016, the Indian Supreme Court asked the Centre to formulate a policy on yoga instruction in state schools, something it hasn’t done yet. Here we