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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)
 
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