Feb 26, 2024 | Announcements, Featured Member
Matthew T. Kapstein, Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has published three books: The Life and Work of Auleshi: Sherpa Buddhist Art and Adept, Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Volume I, and Tibetan...
Feb 5, 2024 | Announcements, Faculty Highlights, Featured Content
Q: Congratulations on the launch of your new book Our Urban Future: An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities. Can you provide a brief summary of the work? Thank you! The book evolved from a “Big Problems” course I’ve been teaching with my...
Jan 29, 2024 | Announcements, Featured Member
Paul Staniland, COSAS member and Professor of Political Science, recently published two articles on South Asia. In the first of the two, Staniland works with Dr. Avinash Paliwal and uses interviews and historical sources to examine patterns of Indian support and...
Jan 15, 2024 | Announcements, Featured Member
Rochona Majumdar, COSAS member and Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies, was awarded the Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Award for best writing on Cinema for her book Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures (2021) in November...
Jan 8, 2024 | Announcements, Faculty Highlights, Featured Content
Q: Congratulations on the publication of four new books in the last few years. Can you briefly summarize each? Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2021. New Delhi: ...
Dec 4, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Elena Bashir, Senior Lecturer and COSAS Emerita in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations had her Khowar-English Lexicon published in the online, open-access journal Himalayan Linguistics. “This is a roman-based Khowar-English...
Nov 20, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Anjali Adukia, COSAS member and Assistant Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy and the College, has been awarded an Early Career Award from the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE). The award recognizes excellence in research,...
Nov 13, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Trevor Price, COSAS member and Professor of Ecology and Evolution has been awarded a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship for Academic and Professional Excellence to continue his studies on the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of India. The Fulbright-Kalam...
Nov 6, 2023 | Announcements, Featured Member
Maanasa Raghavan, COSAS member and Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Human Genetics published a new article in the October 5 issue of Science. The peer reviewed journal, “has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with...
