Oct 25, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Today we are highlighting COSAS Member Rochona Majumdar, Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies, on her newly published book, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the...
Jun 24, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Congratulations to COSAS Member and Associate Instructional Professor in Comparative Literature Nisha Kommattam on her chapter “Vehicles of Progress: The Kerala Rikshawala at the Intersection of Communism and Social Realism” which appears in the book Sound Alignments:...
Jun 21, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Congratulations to COSAS Member and Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities Anna Schultz on her chapter “Cosmaharaja: Popular Songs of Socialist Cosmopolitanism in Cold War India,” in the book Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia’s Cold Wars. In Sound...
Jun 14, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Congratulations to COSAS Member and Professor of Anthropology, Alan Kolata, on his recently launched website that focuses on the human response to environmental change in Cambodia. Professor Kolata and his team are researching how the Mekong River-Tonle Sap flood...
Jun 7, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Professor E. Annamalai has recently received numerous accolades and has been involved with various virtual events on the Tamil language and culture. We have spotlighted a few of his recent achievements below. -The Council of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, conferred the...
Jun 1, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
COSAS congratulates COSAS Member and Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Anjali Adukia, who recently published a working paper titled, “What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s...
May 24, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
In his review of Archana Venkatesan’s,”powerful [and] lovely” new translation, Whitney Cox, Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, discusses the long legacy of COSAS member A. K. Ramanujan on the study of classical South...
May 11, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Today we are spotlighting Constantine V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, who became COSAS Chair in 2020 and is the main organizer of the Chicago Tamil Forum which begins on May 13. The Chicago Tamil Forum is a workshop for scholars working on Tamilagam...
May 3, 2021 | Announcements, Featured Member
Congratulations to COSAS Member, Sunit Singh, on being awarded the inaugural Glenn and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching. Link to the announcement can be found here.
