Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, with Ulrike Stark, has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts.
the George V. Brobinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, coauthored Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black, 2011) with Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Ulrike Stark, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a 2011 literature translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received an outstanding achievement award in Tamil studies from the Tamil Literary Garden for his book Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India (State University of New York Press, 2010).
the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chair) and the College, published Civilisation et femmes célibataires dans le bouddhisme en Asie du Sud et du Sudest (Les conférences de l’école pratique des hautes études no. 5, 2011).
the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, English, and the College and coeditor of Critical Inquiry , received an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.