One of the largest concentrations of faculty working on Southern Asia at any major research university, COSAS members are University of Chicago faculty members engaged in significant research, publication and teaching related to the study of South and Southeast Asia.

Mohit Manohar, COSAS member and Assistant Professor of South Asian Art, was recently awarded the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture from the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) for his insightful study, “The Case of the Buried Temple at Solapur: Construction Sacrifice, Saintly Samādhi, and the ‘Temple-Mosque’ Debate in India.”