2015 South Asia MA alumna Jessica Bachman is studying Bengali in Calcutta this summer, and recently provided photographs for The Guardian on new public art highlighting the crisis “the missing girls in India” who are forced in prostitution. Each year in India tens of thousands of girls go missing in a country where an estimated 1.2

Awards and honors: FLAS (Advanced Hindi 2013-2014, Intermediate Urdu 2014-2015) Interests: Popular politics and democracy, politics of development and poverty, social movements, and globalization in India. MA paper titles: (1) World Bank Versus Vote Bank: Governance, Development, and the Bahujan State in Mayawati’s Uttar Pradesh. (2) Capturing Power, Capturing Development: The Dalit Pursuit of Empowerment

Please join the UW South Asia Center in congratulating Hannah Haegeland who has won a prestigious Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship. Fall 2015 Scoville Fellows were chosen from among 164 candidates who attended 113 universities in 33 states. As part of her fellowship, she will be working at the Stimson Center in Washington D.C. Hannah is currently completing her MA in

While you may hear broad, sweeping statements about India, anyone who has spent time in the world’s second most populated country knows that it is a place of dizzying variation and diversity, be it linguistic, religious, political, or otherwise. And so it is no surprise that second-year South Asian Studies MAIS student Quinn Clark found

  It isn’t  easy for an American to travel to and spend time in Pakistan these days. And given Western media coverage of the region, not many people prioritize it as a destination. Despite the obstacles and the common misconceptions of the country, South Asia MAIS candidate Kelsey Utne was intent on getting there anyway. A

My time in India as a Boren Fellow enabled me to significantly improve my Urdu and Hindi language skills. The AIIS’s Urdu program has incredible instruction. Working as a research and writing fellow for [community organization] no man’s land in Delhi gave me the opportunity to meet a number of scholars, artists, and activists involved

Welcome to funding application season! The South Asia Center’s Funding page is your one-stop shop for academic year and summer funding resources. UW undergraduates and graduate students focusing on South Asia have opportunities for study abroad, summer language programs, and fellowships to fund study here at UW. We’ve recently updated information to reflect opportunities for summer 2015

Creative letters written by UW undergraduates who studied last summer in Bangalore, India, are gathered in a new book organized by Anu Taranath, senior lecturer in the English and Comparative History of Ideas departments. The book, “T.I.P.S. to Study Abroad: Simple Letters for Complex Engagement,” includes about 60 such letters, all written by the 2013

Kevin Johnson, MA South Asian Studies (Jackson School), MPA Public Administration (Evans School). Future plans: Summer internship in Federal Way with World Vision’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programs. I’ll mostly be doing donor communications, fundraising and grant-writing. Awards and honors: Academic Year FLAS 2013-2014; Summer FLAS 2012; Marc Lindenberg award (Evans School); Excellence in Public Service award

I did my Undergraduate from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. After graduation I worked in the Education sector in Pakistan and coordinated a survey on education called Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2011). Before getting interested in Area studies, I had no idea about the University of Washington and the