Mar 20, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and COSAS member William Mazzarella will be a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge during the first half of 2024. While there, he will be working on his book project Mad Men of...
Mar 13, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions and COSAS member, has continued her work following her 2018 retirement. Dr. Doniger celebrated the graduation of her 85th and last PhD student, Nell Hawley, in October...
Feb 6, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
COSAS member and Senior Instructional Professor of the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) Sabina Shaikh released her latest publication this past December. Shaikh co-authored the piece entitled “Riverine food environments and food security: a...
Jan 30, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
COSAS member, Associate Professor of Political Science, and faculty chair of the Committee on International Relations (CIR) Paul Staniland released his latest publication last week entitled The Politics of Opposition in South Asia. Staniland co-edited the piece with...
Jan 17, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Constantine V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Faculty of Cinema & Media Studies and Comparative Human Development, and Chair of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies (2020–2023) has released his newest book entitled Onscreen/Offscreen....
Jan 9, 2023 | Announcements, COSAS Blog
Q: It was so exciting to follow all of your achievements this year. Can you tell me about what some of the highlights were for you? This was my first year after retirement. It is well known that professors do not retire their research at the stroke of the clock. It...
Dec 5, 2022 | Announcements, Featured Member
Ulrike Stark, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC) and COSAS member, has published a new book and two illustrated essays. In 2021, Stark was featured in Contextual Alternate (Vol. 1) for her illustrated essay...
Nov 28, 2022 | Announcements, Featured Member
Elena Bashir, Senior Lecturer and COSAS Emerita in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, has presented her work at multiple conferences over the past few months. Professor Bashir’s work focuses on the Greater Hindukush-Karakoram area of central...
Nov 14, 2022 | Announcements, Featured Member
Nisha Kommattam, Associate Instructional Professor in Comparative Literature and a COSAS member, was recently awarded a fellowship at the Erich Auerbach Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany for Autumn 2022. Kommattam is hosted by Judith...
Nov 7, 2022 | Announcements, Featured Member
Recently, Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced the launch of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. The annual prize will award a literary translator with book publication. The...
