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