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On sabbatical leave for the fall 2018 semester, Leonard van der Kuijp had a very busy three months in August, September, and October:…

Recognized by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the following members of the Department of South Asian Studies have received Spring 2018 Certificates of Excellence in Teaching and Certificates of Distinction in Teaching. Partnering with GSAS and the Office of Undergraduate Education, the Bok Center’s certificates commend individual Lecturers, Preceptors, Teaching Fellows, Teaching Assistants, and Course…

Allison Aitken, PhD candidate in South Asian Studies, received a 2018 Dissertation Fellowship from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies. During her time as a 2018 Dissertation Fellow of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, she will undertake research, both at…

Allison Aitken, PhD candidate in South Asian Studies, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to engage in research in India in 2019. As a Fulbright-Nehru PhD Student Researcher in India, she will undertake research in support of her dissertation, “Not One, Not Many, and No Final Ground: Śāntarakṣita’s Mereological Anti-realism as Metaphysical Infinitism,” which takes up…

Congratulations to the following members of the Department of South Asian Studies for their achievement: CERTIFICATES OF TEACHING EXCELLENCEfor Lecturers and Preceptors    Richard Delacy, HIND-URD 101A and HIND-URD 102A   Hajnalka Kovacs, HIND-URD 101A   Anand Venkatkrishnan, SANSKRIT 101A and SANSKRIT 102AR CERTIFICATES OF DISTINCTION IN TEACHINGfor Teaching Fellows, Teaching Assistants and Course Assistants    Lee…

The Department of South Asian Studies is extremely pleased to announce the efforts to establish an endowed chair of Sangam Tamil in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This effort, sanctioned by the University, is an undertaking by the worldwide Tamil community that has been spearheaded by Dr. Janakiraman and Dr. Sambandam, see http://harvardtamilchair.org/ Over the…

The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia Watch the book trailer …

Ben Williams, PhD candidate, writes, “Through the auspices of the IIE Fulbright grant, I intend to conduct my doctoral research in Pondicherry, India on the intersection of literary theory and theology in the corpus of Abhinavagupta, an eleventh-century polymath and Shaiva religious virtuoso. Clarifying the interpretive strategies of Abhinavagupta’s texts in these two disciplines will…