Programs in South Asian Studies
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John Hopkins
Walter Andersen, Administrative Director The South Asia Studies Program provides a foundation for understanding, through a historical perspective, the political, socioeconomic and international dynamics of this crucial region. An array of interdisciplinary courses addresses South Asia’s growing economic and strategic importance as well as its political history, its complex social structures and the challenges of development. Stretching from Afghanistan in the west to Bangladesh in the east, South Asia is the most populous and diverse region of the globe. The central dilemmas of modern politics, economic development and social change are all dramatized across this landscape.
Welcome to the Home Page of the Program of Asian and Middle East Studies (AMES) at Northwestern University! AMES is an undergraduate program that provides opportunities for undergraduates to learn in depth about some part of the vast area covered by Asia and the Middle East. Some majors go on to law, management or medical schools with the intention of practicing their professions abroad where they can make use of their specialized area knowledge.
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Brown
The diversity and shared histories of South Asia's cultures, religions, languages and nations are an important area of engagement for us in the world today. While India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and neighboring nation-states can be identified on the map as making up a recognizable geographic region, the equally vital diasporic communities from South Asia and their globally dispersed networks extend our understanding of an old and yet changing South Asia. The South Asian Studies Concentration, and the Brown in India Program are only two of the formal ways in which students can focus on and learn about South Asia. Faculty with teaching and research interests in South Asia and South Asian languages, an array of student organizations reflecting the diversity of South Asia itself, the Haffenreffer Anthropology Museum, RISD, and the RISD Museum, come together to provide scholarly and cultural resources for the study of South Asia at Brown.
Chicago
The University of Chicago provides students with a rich array of options for South and Southeast Asian doctoral studies. The University has a long-established Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and ranks among the world’s leading centers for the study of South Asian language and area studies. In recent years, an increasingly larger number of faculty members have focused on the study Southeast Asia in their research and teaching. In 2007, in response to interest in study of the region, the Committee on Southern Asia Studies instituted a Southeast Asian Studies Group to support research and teaching in this area.
Dartmouth
Study leading to a degree in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) is interdisciplinary and is normally focused on one of the following areas: East Asia , the Middle East , and South/Southeast Asia . Each area is overseen by a faculty committee, and students majoring in AMES work in cooperation with their committee of specialization in the development of their course plan, off-campus studies, and independent work. Majors work with advisors (selected from the above list of program participants) to design a program of study to ensure coherence of language study, disciplinary training, and off-campus experience. Students should choose advisors in their respective areas of concentration.
The South Asia Institute (SAI) coordinates activities at Columbia University that relate to study of the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as related areas such as Afghanistan, Burma, and Tibet. The Institute organizes conferences, seminars, film screenings, lecture series and brown bag talks that bring together faculty and students with diverse interests and backgrounds. SAI partners with departments, centers, and institutes at Columbia, and works with South Asia groups on campus and off, in order to reach new audiences and facilitate an exchange of knowledge. The Institute's outreach activities provide a broad range of resources for K-12 teachers interested in South Asia. SAI administers a Master of Arts Program in South Asia Studies that draws upon affiliated Institute faculty who teach courses on South Asia in fourteen departments and six schools.
Columbia
Biography Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel, Director General of GATT (1991-93), Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, and External Adviser to the WTO.
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Upenn
Welcome to the Department of South Asia Studies! The study of South Asia at Penn has a tradition stretching back over a hundred years. The department has trained generations of leaders in the field and remains one of the most distinguished places to study South Asia in the United States.
The Center for South Asia facilitates teaching and learning about the South Asian subcontinent, which encompasses the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. Specialists in Anthropology, Drama, Economics, Education, History, Literature, Music, Political Science, and Religious Studies among others comprise the faculty of CSA. The Center works with departments and other university units, as well as with student and community groups, toward the goals of increasing faculty strength, supporting research, expanding course offerings, building the library collection, and presenting programs and events. Read more...
Stanford
Yale
South Asian Studies Program Travel Grant for Graduate Students The South Asian Studies Program Travel Grant provides travel support for Yale University Graduate Students to attend and/or participate in South Asian Studies workshops, conferences and meetings on topics in South Asian history, politics, economics, languages and culture in the United States and internationally throughout the academic year as well as during the summer. The competition is open to graduate students in all disciplines.
Berkeley
We offer training in 14 languages, and undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the histories, religions, cultures and textual traditions of a third of the world’s population. Our faculty specializes in all periods from the classical to the modern, in the fields of literature, history, and religious studies, and conducts research in India, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.On July 1, 2011 the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University will become the Department of South Asian Studies. This new department builds on the strengths of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies to create a broad and multidisciplinary platform for the study of South Asia in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Please check back in the coming months for more about our new department.
Harvard
Established in 2007, the Program in South Asian Studies offers students in any department of Princeton University the methodological and theoretical tools to study the political, economic, social, and religious institutions of India and Pakistan. The program is committed to promoting a comprehensive understanding of the pre-modern and modern histories of these two states as well as of their contemporary institutions and relations with neighboring South Asian nations (in particular Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) and the rest of the world. The program approaches the complexity of the South Asian past and present from a wide range of different disciplinary perspectives, hoping to foster lively intellectual exchanges on issues related to the plural configurations of “modernity” in the global context.