During the 2020-21 academic year, the UW South Asia Center thrived in its mission to support the study of South Asia in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We were proud to host and support a wide range of engaging programming – all of it virtual – in our communities this year. We invite you to explore the highlights

The 2020-21 academic year was a productive period for scholarly publications at the UW South Asia Center, with faculty and graduate students publishing dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters on a wide range of international and South Asia-related topics. The highlights below reflect new publications from the last six months, approx. January–June 2021. See

Learning about India just became a little easier for students at the University of Washington, thanks to a recent gift of $100,000 to the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from longtime UW donors S. Rao and Usha Varanasi. Both are also UW alumni. The fund, to be known as the S. Rao and Usha Varanasi

For the final South Asia Studies colloquium of the 2020-21 academic year, on Thursday, June 3, Professor of Architecture Vikram Prakash gave a reading from his book, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. One Continuous Line explores and celebrates the life and work of the Indian modernist architect – and the author’s

The UW South Asia Center congratulates the 2021 graduates of the Master of Arts Program in South Asia Studies! Urooj Hanafi Degree: MA in South Asia Studies, Jackson School of International Studies Research interests: Islam as practiced in South Asia; Sufism; Islamic mysticism; qawwali; female qawwals; the concept of sharafat in Pakistan; folk Islam; the role of

Recap by Asha Kadakia, MPH (Global Health) Candidate On Monday, May 17, the South Asia Center partnered with the UW Department of Global Health to put on a student-led panel in the GH 593  “Rethinking Global Health” course, with instructors Deepa Rao and Ahoua Kone. Moderated by students from the Department of Global Health’s MPH

Read co-author David Citrin’s recent op-ed in The Conversation: With COVID-19 cases surging, Nepal asks global community for urgent vaccine help. David Citrin is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology, and leads the South Asia Center’s Nepal Studies Initiative in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Natalia Di Pietrantonio is an Assistant Curator of South Asian Art at the Seattle Art Museum. Prior to this position, she was the Bard Graduate Center’s Islamic Art and Material Culture postdoctoral fellow, and served as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity visiting professor in South Asian art history at Scripps College. She recently spoke with our

On Thursday, May 13, the South Asia Center welcomed Anil Wagde (Ambedkar International Center) and Raghav Kaushik for a virtual panel on casteism and its manifestations in India and the United States. After brief remarks from each of the speakers, the audience chimed in with their own questions about recent legal cases addressing caste discrimination,

The 2021 Asian L&L Markus Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor David Shulman of the Hebrew University on May 4, 2021. His talk is titled, “Half-Bird, Half-Fish: The New Grammar of Time Past in Seventeenth-century Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit.” Although every generation has to discover, or rediscover, or reinvent its own links to the cultural