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

The East Asia Center (EAC) and South Asia Center (SAC) are pleased to support the Spring Quarter 2021 Global Business Forum taught by Professor Christina Fong, in partnership with the Foster School’s Global Business Center, the School of Law’s Global Business Law Institute, and The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). The Spring 2021 Global Business Forum features distinguished guests who will address the theme, “The COVID-19 Global Heath

Our graduate student assistant spoke with IAWW Scholar and South Asia FLAS Fellow Yogasai Gazula about her recent Digital Humanities Day event. Yogasai is an undergraduate in the Jackson School of International Studies with a focus on South Asia Studies. This spring, Gazula organized Digital Humanities Day with the support of the Husky Seed Fund, an award that brings to

Ahmad Abid Humayun is the Executive Director of Sanayee Development Organization, an Afghan NGO that has been working in the health, peace building, conflict transformation, and education sectors for 30 years. Today, the organization has over 3,000 staff engaged from grassroots to international levels. In the health sector specifically, they have been responsible for delivering

The last six months or so have been a productive period for scholarly publications at the UW South Asia Center. So far during the 2020-21 academic year, South Asia Center faculty and graduate students published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters on a wide range of international and South Asia-related topics. Graduate Student Publications