A delegation from Sri Lanka’s largest university, the University of Peradeniya, visited the University of Illinois in mid-November as guests of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) and the College of Veterinary Medicine.   The Peradeniya delegation included...

Antoinette Burton, who is the director of the Humanities Research Institute at Illinois, wrote a new book, “Gender History: A Very...

Humanities Research Institute Director Antoinette Burton has been chosen to take part in the 2023–24 cohort of the University of Illinois System Public Voices Fellowship. This fellowship, led by The OpEd Project, is a distinctive opportunity that forms part of a national initiative aimed at...

As the Associate Professor and South Asian Studies Librarian, Mara has a wide range of responsibilities, including collection development, research, instruction, reference support, and committee work both within and outside the library. Her areas of expertise are Hinduism, Indic Languages, and...

Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, is part of a team that has been awarded a $15,000 seed grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in Saint Louis. The...

Mithilesh Mishra, director of the Hindi and South Asian languages program in the Department of Linguistics, was honored for his contribution and commitment to Hindi. He received the Service to Hindi Award from the International Hindi Association...

Jain studies the interaction between land and climate, which is impacted by human activities such as deforestation and agriculture intensification. His team has developed a global model-data integration framework that uses satellite and ground-based observations to study how those interactions...

Taher Saif, the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (...

Riggs’ research will result in an urban history of post-Partition Delhi told through maps, individual accounts and images of home spaces. This portrait of Delhi’s built landscape history challenges assumptions about the perpetual aid-dependency of refugee communities, the potential effectiveness of...