South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dipesh Chakrabarty

the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published Itihasher janajibon o anyanyo probondho (The Public Life of History and Other Essays) (Ananda Publishers, 2011) and Provincializing Europe (Polish and Turkish translations; 2011). He was the Lansdowne Lecturer at Victoria University, Canada and recieved the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India.

Sascha Ebeling

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited and translated A Second Sunrise and Other Poems by R. Cheran in collaboration with Lakshmi Holmström (Navayana, 2012).

Rochona Majumdar

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, was honored for her work Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal, which was shortlisted as one of the five best books published in the social sciences in 2009–2010 by the International Convention of Asia Scholars.

Jason Grunebaum

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published a translation of Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi (UWA Publishing, 2012).

Wendy Doniger

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in Divinity, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Social Thought, and the College, edited The Magic Doe: Shaikh Qutban Suhravadī’s Mirigāvatī  (Oxford University Press, 2011; translated by Aditya Behl) and recieved the University's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

Wendy Doniger

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School, the Committee on Social Thought, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published The Hindus: An Alternative History (New York: Penguin Press, 2009), which was a National Book Critics Circle 2009 Finalist, Nonfiction.

Steven Collins

Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chair) and the College, published Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, and Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published An Anti-Colonial History of the Postcolonial Turn (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2009) and was awarded a Doctor of Literature (honoris causa) by the University of London.

Yigal Bronner

Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

Ulrike Stark

Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, with Jason Grunebaum, has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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