Oct 2, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Michele Friedner, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Comparative Human Development and COSAS Member has been awarded the prestigious 4S Rachel Carson Award for her book Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant...
Oct 2, 2023 | Announcements
Kartik Maini, a PhD student in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been awarded the European Association for South Asian studies (EASAS) Student Research Award for their paper entitled “Advaita in the First Person: Saṃnyāsīs, Scribes, and...
Sep 25, 2023 | Announcements, Faculty Highlights, Featured Content
Q: Congratulations on your new book Urdu Crime Fiction, 1890—1950: An Informal History. Can you provide a brief summary of the work? It is a chatty, ‘informal’ account of Urdu mysteries and thrillers written or published between 1890 and 1950. Crime fiction originated...
May 22, 2023 | Announcements
Pranathi Diwakar, Department of Sociology and Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, has been selected for the 2023 Saller Prize by a faculty review committee. Diwakar’s dissertation, Resounding Caste: Practices of Distinction, Urban Segregation, and Musical Politics...
May 15, 2023 | Announcements, Faculty Highlights, Featured Content
Q: Congratulations on being awarded the AIIS Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities for your work If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi. Can you provide a brief summary of the book and its desired contribution to the field? If...
May 12, 2023 | Associates
Apr 25, 2023 | Announcements, Faculty Highlights, Featured Content
Q: Congratulations on the launch of the SALT Project. Can you provide a brief summary of the project and its goals? Thank you! The project’s origin lies in many missing books. In particular, only 64 books translated from all South Asian languages have made it to US...
Apr 10, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
COSAS member Sunit Singh has officially been promoted to Associate Instructional Professor. He is an affiliate faculty in the Department of History and Co-Director of the SOSC Core Writing Initiative. Professor Singh acquired his BA, MA and PhD from the University of...
Apr 3, 2023 | Announcements
Andrew Halladay successfully defended his dissertation “A Distant Throne: The British Sovereign in the Mirror of Indian Nationalism, 1919–36” on January 13, 2023 for a doctoral dual degree in History and SALC. Abstract: Despite the substantial attention...
Mar 27, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Dr. Mohit Manohar, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in South Asian Art in the Department of Art History and COSAS member has received the UC Berkeley South Asia Art and Architecture Dissertation Prize for his Ph.D. dissertation, “The City of Gods and Fortune:...
