“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

MA in South Asia Studies South Asia Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington, Seattle Deadline: January 31, 2024 Learn More and Apply The South Asia Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington invites applications for the MA in South Asia Studies program. Located in beautiful Seattle, the University of Washington

The South Asia Center’s graduate assistant conducted an interview with Kavita Dattani, who assumed the role of Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in the autumn of 2023. Explore further to gain insights into Professor Dattani’s compelling academic journey. GA:  To begin with, I am

Dear South Asia Students, Staff, Faculty, and Community Members, Welcome back to another academic year! We have several new students and faculty joining us this year, and I extend a particularly warm welcome to them. We look forward to the many ways in which you will enrich our intellectual and social community. I would also

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