Dr. Richard G. Salomon (William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Literature) was recently awarded the 2020 Khyentse Foundation prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation for his 2018 book Buddhist Literature from Ancient Gandhāra. This prize is awarded annually for excellence in translation works that make the Buddhist heritage accessible to a broader public. It also won the Prix

The UW South Asia Center congratulates the 2020 graduates of the International Studies (South Asia) MA program, as well as those with a focus on the study of South Asia from affiliated graduate programs. Marshall Azad Degree: MA in South Asia Studies, Jackson School of International Studies Research interests: Bangladesh, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Elder Care, Domestic

On May 27, 2020, sixteen high school teachers from across Washington State joined the South Asia Center and the Brown University Choices Program for a webinar on the Choices curriculum unit, The United States in Afghanistan. The Choices Program draws on scholarship from Brown University to produce innovative curricula and videos that make contested international

The South Asia National Outreach Consortium (SANOC), of which the UW South Asia Center is a member center, announces the 2020 recipients of the South Asia Book Award: 2020 Award Winners Priya Dreams of Marigolds and Masala by Meenal Patel (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2019). Priya asks her beloved Babi Ba, “What is India like?” as they

On Thursday, May 21, the South Asia Center welcomed Professor Inshah Malik (Kardan University, Kabul) for a virtual colloquium event. Logging in at 7:30 AM in her time zone, Professor Malik delivered a lecture on “Muslim Women, Agency, and Politics of Resistance in Kashmir: Dissecting Media Narratives and Portrayals,”  in which she analyzed the use

On Thursday, May 7, the Block Museum at Northwestern University held a virtual screening of the 1971 film Badnam Basti, followed by a Q&A with Professor Sudhir Mahadevan (UW Cinema & Media Studies) and Simran Bhalla (Ph.D. candidate, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University). Badnam Basti, considered one of the first LGBTQ films in Indian cinema, was long thought to be

On May 7, 2020, South Asia Center students and faculty attended the virtual panel “Reflecting on Feminist Praxis in Qualitative Research: Views from Pakistan,” as part of the biennial conference of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology, Distribute 2020. The panel was organized by scholars at the Lahore University of

Internationalize Your History and Current Issues Curricula The Brown University Choices Program, with support from four National Resource Centers at the University of Washington, is hosting a series of free webinars for Washington high school teachers on the following units: China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response Tuesday, May 19, 5-6pm PST Participants

On the night of April 30, 2020, students and faculty from the UW South Asia Center logged onto Zoom for a virtual lecture from Mukta Naik, Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. An urban planner and architect who specializes in housing, urban poverty, informality, and internal migration, Naik shared her perspective

Leela Fernandes will become the next director of the Jackson School of International Studies. Fernandes is a senior scholar of South Asia whose research interests and published work span numerous fields, including politics, gender & transnational feminism, labor studies, and class analytics. She is currently the Glenda Dickerson Collegiate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science at