South Asia Studies
| Anannya Bohidar | “The Everyday Female Body in Popular Print Culture in Late Colonial Soth India (1890s-1940s)” |
2024 |
| Ayesha Sheth | “A Political History of Music: Sultanate India between 1428 and 1605” |
2024 |
| Elliot Montpellier | “Mediatizing Islam: The Digital Turn and the Promotion of Piety in a Pakistani Culture Industry,” defended May 5, 2023, with “Distinction” | 2023 |
| Indivar Jonnalagadda | “Permanent Slums: The Limits of Property and Citizenship for the Urban Poor in Hyderabad, India,” defended April 28, 2023, with “Distinction,” (Current Position: Assistant Professor of International Studies, Department of Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH) | 2023 |
| Gianni Sievers | "Auditory Culture in Transition: Muslims, Music, and Nationalism in Colonial North India, c. 1857-1947," defended May 15, 2023, with "Distinction" (Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Utrecht University) | 2023 |
| Timothy Lorndale | “Epic Translation: Ranna’s Sahasabhimavijaya and the Afterlife of the Mahabharata in Medieval Karnata” (Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto) |
2022 |
| Baishakh Chakrabarti | "Bringing Down the House: Gambling, Speculation and the Making of the Small Investor in Colonial India, 1867-1943," (Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre de Sciences Humaines-CSH) |
2022 |
| Pooja Nayak | “Rust and Ferns: Work, Value and the Politics of Everyday Security in Kudremukh, South India,” (Current Position: Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany) | 2022 |
| Joshua Pien | “Tracing Dehlavi: The Origins of the Hindi-Urdu Lingua Franca,” with “Distinction,” | 2022 |
| Brian Cannon | “Claiming Caste: Land, Water, and Hierarchy in North India, 1660-1950,” (Current Position: Center for Excellence in Writing, University of Pennsylvania) | 2022 |
| Ishani Dasgupta | Emergence of a Deterritorialized Nation: How Tibetan Political Practices Confront the Precarity of Statelessness (Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University) | 2022 |
| Divya Kumar- Dumas |
The Experience of Early Designed Landscape in South Asia: Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, & Mamallapuram, India |
2021 |
| Samana Gururaja | Marriage, Kinship, and Political Hierarchy in the Evolution of the Hoysala Family | 2021 |
| Philip Friedrich | Merchants, Ministers, and Monks: Making Buddhist Power and Place in Medieval Sri Lanka | 2020 |
| Jawan Rasikh | Early Islamic Ghur, 10th-12th Centuries C.E.: Rereading The Tabaqat-I Nasiri |
2019 |
| Samira Junaid | In Praise of Shahul Hamid, Historicizing an Islamic Tamil Hagiographical Tradition, 1650–1950 (Current Position: School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India) |
2019 |
| Sudev Sheth | Business Households, Financial Capital, and Public Authority in India, 1650-1818 (Current position: Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania) |
2018 |
| Michael Collins | Recalling Democracy: Electoral Politics, Minority Representation, and Dalit Assertion in Modern India | 2017 |
| Darakhshan Khan | Fashioning the Pious Self: Middle Class Religiosity in Colonial India (Current Position: School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UK) |
2016 |
| Samuel Ostroff | The Beds of Empire: Power and Profit at the Pearl Fisheries of South India and Sri Lanka, c.1770-1840 | 2016 |
| Sarah Pierce Taylor | Aesthetics of Sovereignty: The Poetic and Material Worlds of Medieval Jainism (Current Position: Divinity School, University of Chicago) |
2016 |
| Purvi Parikh | Does Character Count: Moral Self-Fashioning in the Swadhyaya and Chinmaya Mission Movements (Current Position: Religion Studies, Muhlenberg College) | 2014 |
| Kathryn Hardy | Becoming Bhojpuri: Producing Cinema and Producing Language in Post-Liberalization India (Current Position: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University) | 2014 |
| David Buchta | Pedagogical Poetry: Didactics and Devotion in Rapa Gosvamins Stavamala (Current Position: Department of Classics, Brown University) |
2014 |
| Steven Vose | The Making of a Medieval Jain Monk: Language, Power, And Authority in the Works of Jinaprabhasuri (ca. 1261-1333) (Current Position: Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Denver) |
2013 |
| Ananya Dasgupta | Labors of Representation: Cultivating Land, Self, and Community Among Muslims in Late Colonial Bengal (Current Position: Department of History, Case Western Reserve University) | 2013 |
| Simone McCarter | Tantric Selves: Body, Mind, and Society in the Religious Cultures of Medieval Kashmir (Current Position: Assistant Director of Tutoring, Vanderbilt University) | 2012 |
| Ayesha Irani | Sacred biography, translation, and conversion: The "Nabivamsa" of Saiyad Sultan and the making of |
2011 |
| Bengali Islam, 1600—present (Current Position: Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston) |
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| Melanie Dean | From Darshan to Drishti: 'Evil Eye' and the Politics of Visibility in Contemporary South India (Current Position: Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University) |
2011 |
| Aaron Mulvany | Flood of Memories: Narratives of Flood and Loss in Tamil South India (Current Position: School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan) |
2011 |
| Christopher Perkins | Partitioning History: The Creation of an Islami Pablik in Colonial India, c. 1880-1920 (Current Position: Curator for South Asian and Islamic Studies, Stanford University) | 2010 |
| Walter Hakala | Diction and dictionaries: Language, literature, and learning in Persianate South Asia (Current Position: Department of English, Buffalo University (SUNY)) | 2010 |
| Theodore Benke | The Śūdrācāraśiromaṇi of Kṛṣṇa Śeṣa: A 16th Century Manual of Dharma for Śūdras |
2010 |
| Vasu Renganathan | The language of Tirumular's "Tirumantiram", a medieval Saiva Tamil religious text (Current Position: Tamil Instructor, University of Pennsylvania) | 2010 |
| James Caron | Cultural histories of Pashtun nationalism, public participation, and social inequality in monarchic Afghanistan, 1905-1960 (Current Position: Department of History, SOAS, University of London) |
2009 |
| Michael Linderman | Charity's venue: Representing Indian kingship in the monumental pilgrim rest houses of the Maratha Rajas of Tanjavur, 1761-1832 |
2009 |
| John Nemec | Saiva arguments against the grammarians: Somananda's Sivadr (Current Position: Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Virginia (https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/john-nemec)) | 2005 |
| David Gold | “Tīrthacintāmani” of Vācaspatimiśra: A critical edition and translation of the Sāmānya, Prayāga, and Purusottama sections | 2002 |