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

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

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