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Neubauer Collegium Announces Newest Projects

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has selected 12 new collaborative research projects that unite leading scholars from the University of Chicago and beyond to explore novel approaches to complex human questions.

Karlos Arregi and Alan Yu Named LSA Fellows, Class of 2016

Faculty members honored by the Linguistic Society of America for their "distinguished contributions to the discipline."

South Asia Exhibit Addresses Representation, Identity

East Indian Railway. Postcard from Digital South Asia Library, The University of Chicago Library.

How did European explorers, missionaries, colonial officials, and scholars view South Asia? What did South Asian self-representations look like? Ulrike Stark, Anna Seastrand, and Ian Desai curated Envisioning South Asia: Texts, Scholarship, Legacies with these questions of representation and identity in mind.

Ramakrishnan Professorship to Support Study of Sanskrit

South Asian Languages and Civilizations scholar Gary Tubb is the inaugural appointee of the newly announced Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professorship in Sanskrit Studies

As the University of Chicago prepares to celebrate two major anniversaries in South Asian studies, a new gift will help to ensure UChicago’s continued leadership in the study of the Indian subcontinent. The Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professorship in Sanskrit Studies, established by a $3.5 million gift from Guru and Anupama Ramakrishnan, supports a faculty member whose work focuses on the ancient classical language. Gary Tubb, professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, will be the first scholar to hold the new position.

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