2024-10-16
- The Global Academy, a unique international training program based in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) has kicked off its sixteenth year.
With the goal of increasing the international impact of the participants’ professional work, the selected faculty and staff will spend the remainder of the academic year exploring the topic of sustainable development for...
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South Asian Studies News
2024-09-25 - The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to announce a new role within the center: the Faculty Director for South Asian Studies. Starting on August 16, 2024, the Center’s first Faculty Director for South Asian Studies will be Professor Rini Mehta (Comparative & World Literature and Religion). Professor Mehta has been a leader in South Asian Studies programming at...
2024-08-07 - Antoinette Burton, who is the director of the Humanities Research Institute at Illinois, wrote a new book, “Gender History: A Very Short Introduction,” which gives an overview of gender history as a category of historical...
2024-08-01 - Congratulations to Susan Koshy for her recent receipt of a faculty fellowship with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. From OVCRI: "Faculty Fellows inform OVCRI thinking and policy-making while simultaneously learning about campus-level research administration and research-related issues. It’s a strategic professional development opportunity to nurture new campus...
2024-07-09 - 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 mission of CRE2 is to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and...
2024-02-08 - 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 (NAE). He was elected “for characterizing mechanical properties of materials at small scales, with...
2023-12-06 - 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 the deans and five additional faculty from the colleges of agriculture and veterinary medicine. The...
2023-11-15 - 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 modify the net fluxes of greenhouse gases and surface fluxes of water and energy. He contributes to...
2023-10-25 - 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, which focuses on fostering India's cultural heritage through the promotion and propagation of...-
2023-08-25 - 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 enabling faculty to amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public discourse on critical...
2023-01-13 - 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 public housing and the mutability of national belonging. Riggs’ book project, “An Archaeology of...
2021-06-24 - 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 South Asian Studies. Although outreach and public engagement are not officially part of Mara’s...