On April 4th  professor Christian Lee Novetzke was named a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow! Professor Novetzke will use the fellowship to advance two projects. The first is on the role of bhakti in the creation of political ethics in Maharashtra over the last 700 years. The second is a collaborative project with Dr. Sunila Kale on yoga as

South Asia Center faculty member Alka Kurian’s recent #MeToo article has been quoted and republished by media outlets around the world, including the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wire, and outlets in the UK, Sri Lanka, and Africa. India Today also quoted the article.

Professor of Political Science Aseem Prakash has published three articles in recent weeks. In The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage in February, Why is India ‘missing’ 63 million women — even though development is roaring? In The Regulatory Review Should India’s Supreme Court Enforce Regulations? And in The Huffington Post The Climate Change Hypocrisy Of Jet-Setting Academics.  

Hannah Haegeland (South Asian Studies MA 2015) recently co-authored an article published in The Hindu. Titled A political choice, the article examines crisis situations arising between India and Pakistan, and addresses why some violent events trigger crises when others do not. The article is derived from a recently released volume by the Stimson Center titled

Professor of International Studies Christian Novetzke‘s 2016 book The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India was recently reviewed by William E.B. Sherman for the LA Review of Books. You can find the review here!

March 2nd & 3rd marked the 51st year of The South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN). Held on the beautiful campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, SACPAN reiterated the values of its founders by creating a light and lively space for regional students and scholars to share their work, refine

The grant competition for 2018 is currently open. Below is some information regarding this grant, please check back in for more updates.  As part of the Global Competencies in 21st Century Asian Studies initiative, the University of Washington’s Center for Global Studies, South Asia Center, East Asia Center, and Southeast Asia Center offer grants for Community College

From March 22nd to March 25th the Association for Asian Studies annual conference will take place in Washington, DC at the Marriot Wardman Hotel. Five representatives of the UW South Asia Center will deliver presentations and serve as discussants on panels.   Panel 17 is dedicated to associate professor of art history Sonal Khullar‘s Cohn

Randall Kyes, Adjunct Research Professor, Global Health Research Professor, Psychology Adjunct Research Professor, Anthropology, and students representing several institutions from NE India embarked on the 8th annual field course (and outreach program) at the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary (protected forest) near Mariani/Jorhat, Assam, India.  Professor Kyes has sent us some photos from the field. Follow his field

Published November, 2017, UW Asian Languages and Literature Professor Heidi Pauwels has released her new book, Mobilizing Krishna’s World The Writings of Prince Savant Singh of Kishangarh. Savant Singh (1694-1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de