South Asia Center graduate student assistant Karishma Manglani recently spoke with JSIS South Asia Studies MA alum Rachel Heilman, a social studies teacher at Issaquah High School. With the support of the South Asia Center’s National Resource Center grant and guidance from Sunila Kale (Associate Professor of International Studies), Heilman designed a new high school

South Asia Center graduate student assistant Shelby House recently spoke with alumna Thilini Kahandawaarachchi, JSIS South Asia Studies MA (2015). A former lawyer and Fulbright student at UW, Kahandawaarachchi now works as a Senior Political Adviser at the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read more about her writing, research, and career below. SH: What led

The South Asia Center is saddened to announce that Emeritus Professor Karl Potter has passed away. The Department of Philosophy shared the following remembrance: Karl joined the Department of Philosophy and the Far Eastern and Russian Institute in 1970, then associated with South Asian Studies. He served as chair of the department from 1986-90 and

On January 26th, Professor Anand Yang (International Studies and History) presented a lecture entitled “Commodities and Capitalism: A Tale of Tea in China and India,” as part of the History Department’s 2022 History Lecture Series, Capitalism in Action: Culture, Power, History. In the lecture, Yang presents a history of capitalism in China and India narrated through the study

Jackson School Professor Christian Lee Novetzke has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment Humanities (NEH) 2022 for his new book project titled, “A Flower of Fire: Religion, Caste, and Gender in the Political Poetry of Savitribai Phule (1831–1897).” The book on Savitribai Phule, a “low-caste” or Shudra social reformer of the 19th century, will explore

On January 7, 2022, anthropologist Tarini Bedi (University of Illinois at Chicago) presented a lecture via Zoom on “Indian Automobility and Auto-Space in Urban India: Whose Road is it Anyway?” Drawn from her recent book Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (University of Washington Press), Bedi’s talk explored “Indian automobility” through the lens of

We are looking for a part-time Program Coordinator (20 hours per week) to join the South Asia Studies and Southeast Asia Studies academic programs and National Resource Centers at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. See the job description below, and learn more and apply here. Applicants seeking

On Thursday, December 2nd, 2021, Juned Shaikh delivered a lecture on content from his recently published book Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (University of Washington Press). His lecture covered the history of how marxist ideas, literature, and intellectuals trickled into Bombay city in the first few years after World War I, and

Radhika Govindrajan, director of the South Asia Center and associate professor at the Jackson School and Department of Anthropology, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Diana Forsythe Prize for her book, “Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by the American Anthropological Association. “Animal Intimacies” recounts the varying relationships people