| 2024 | Akshara Ravishankar Parmeswaran |
Commentary and Canonization: The Bhagavad Gītā in Sanskrit and Hindi (1400-1800CE) |
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ghent University |
| 2024 | Titas De Sarkar | Dādācaritmānas: A Cultural History of the Modern Bengali Youth | Humanities Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago |
| 2023 | Dasgupta, Supurna | Intimate Revolutions: Mean and Women in 1960s Bengali Literature | Assistant Professor in postcolonial literature in the Department of English, Santa Clara University |
| 2023 | Halladay, Andrew | A Distant Throne: The British Sovereign in the Mirror of Indian Nationalism, 1919-36 | Assistant Professor of international history, Department of History, London School of Economics |
| 2023 | Taimoor Shahid Khan | Saif al-Muluk, The Quest for Love: Islam, Travels, and the Ethis of Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean World | |
| 2023 | Ayelet Kotler | Persian Literary Translation in the Early Mughal Period | Postdoctoral research fellow, ERC PURANA project, Leiden University |
| 2023 | Taimur Reza | Muslim Home-Making: Bengali Muslims' Belonging in a Transnational Horizon, c.1880-1914 | Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
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2022 |
Ariav, Talia | Intimately Cosmopolitan: Genealogical Poets and Orchestrated Selves in 17-18th century Sanskrit Literature from South India | Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University |
| 2022 | Hawley, Nell | The War That Wasn’t: The Virāṭaparvan, the Pañcarātra, and the Fantasy Life of the Mahābhārata |
Harvard University, Preceptor in Sanskrit |
| 2022 | Poddar, Sanjukta | Writing Allahabad: Texts and Identities in a Provincial City (1885-1939) | University Lecturer, Universiteit Leiden |
| 2022 | Newbold, Thomas | The Critical Age: Modern Periodization and Moral Revaluation in Colonial Bengal 1818-1912 |
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago |
| 2022 | Gurevitch, Eric Moses | Everyday Sciences in Southwest India | Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University |
| 2022 | Acosta, Eduardo Luciano | Medieval Landscapes: The Idea of Middle Ages in Bengal |
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University |
| 2022 |
Bhattacharyya, Abhishek |
Practical-Critical Selves: Leftist Organising in South Asia | Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology and the College, University of Chicago |
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2021 |
Sastry, Sharvari | Performances of Posterity: Theatre, Archives and Cultural Regulation in Modern India | Collegiate Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago |
| 2021 | Jayanth, Malarvizhi | Rice and Agrarian Slavery in Southern Colonial India, 1781-1861 | Research Fellow in Slavery and its Impacts, King's College, Cambridge |
| 2021 | Graves, Jazmin |
Songs to the African Saints of India: The Veneration of Mai Misra in the Sidi (African-Indian) Sufi Devotional Tradition of Gujarat and Mumbai |
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| 2021 | Morgan, Daniel | Spokesman of the Unseen World: Shaāh Walīi Allaāh (d. 1762), Islamic Reform and Applied Cosmological Sciences in Late-Mughal North India |
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University |
| 2020 | John, Joya | Nature Displaced: Postcolonial Hindi Literature and the Environment | Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, Krea University |
| 2020 | Reddy, Gautham | An Empire of Literary Telugu: Remaking Language and Community in Colonial South India |
South Asian Studies Librarian, Emory University |
| 2020 | Trento, Margherita | Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Tamiḻakam | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| 2019 | Panda, Ahona | Philology and the Politics of Language: The Case of Bengali, 1893-1955 | Assistant Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College |
| 2019 | Mikkelson, Jane | Worlds of the Imagination: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1720) and Early Modern Persian Lyric Style | Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, College Fellows Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia |
| 2018 | D'Avella, Victor | Creating The Perfect Language: Sanskrit Grammarians, Poetry, and The Exegetical Tradition |
Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2018 | Hanlon, Julie | Jain Monks, Merchants, and Kings in Early Historic South India |
Senior Analyst, Learning Technology, University of Chicago |
| 2018 | Uskokov, Aleksandar | Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Scripture and the Hermeneutics of Liberation in Early Advaita Vedānta | Lecturer of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Yale University |
| 2018 | Jones, Jamal | A Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CE |
Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2017 | Epperson, Erin | Kālidāsa in Tibet: Messenger Poetry in Translation | Public Educator of Violence Prevention, Assertiveness, and Mindfulness. Owner of Culture of Safety LLC |
| 2017 | Lhost, Elizabeth | Between Community and Qānūn: Documenting Islamic Legal Practice in Nineteenth-Century British India | Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College |
| 2016 | Ambrosone, Ellen | Making Modern Malayalam: Literary and Educational Practices in Nineteenth-Century Kerala | South Asian Studies Librarian, Princeton University |
| 2016 | Momin, Wafi | The Formation of the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition in South Asia |
Head, Ismaili Special Collections Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London |
| 2015 | Roychoudhuri, Ranu | The Public Lives of Photographs: Aesthetic Conventions and Sociocultural Change in Twentieth-Century India | Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati |
| 2015 | Loewy Shacham, Ilanit | Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada and the Narration of a Śrīvaiṣṇava Community | Professor, South Asian literature, Tel Aviv University |
| 2014 | Ghosh, Abhishek | Vaiṣṇavism and the West: A Study of Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinod's Encounter and Response, 1869-1909 | Assistant Professor, Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies, Grand Valley State University |
| 2014 | Wright, Samuel | The Expansion of a Discipline: Intellectual Change in Nyaya-Sastra in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century India | Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
| 2013 | Huntington, Eric | Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture | Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University |
| 2012 | Dey, Arnab | Of Planters, Ecology and Labor: Plantation Worlds, Human History and Nonhuman Actors in Eastern India (Assam), 1840-1910 | Associate Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton |
| 2012 | Fischel, Roy | Society, Space, and the State in the Deccan Sultanates, 1565-1636 | Lecturer, SOAS University of London |
| 2012 | Satpathy, Siddharth | A Literary History of the Pastoral Subject | Assistant Professor, University of Hyderabad |
| 2011 | Dubrow, Jennifer | From Newspaper Sketch to "Novel": The Writing and Reception of Fasana-e Azad in North India, c. 1878-1880 | Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington |
| 2010 | Kroll, Ethan | A Logical Approach to Law | Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP |
| 2010 | Birkenholtz, Jessica | The Svasthani Vrata Katha: Translating Self, Place, and Identity in Hindu Nepal | Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State |
| 2010 | Leonard, Spencer | A Fit of Absence of Mind? Illiberal Imperialism and the Founding of British India, 1747-1776 |
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Tennessee |
| 2009 | O'Donnell, Erin | History, Trauma and Remembering: The Construction of a Postcolonial Bengali Cultural Identity in Ritwik Ghatak's Films | Associate Professor, Department of History, East Stroudsburg University |
| 2009 | Knutson, Jesse | The Consolidation Of Literary Registers And The World Of The Senas: Late Twelfth/ Early Thirteenth-Century Bengal. | Associate Professor, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii |
| 2008 | Ahmed, Manan | The Many Histories Of Muhammad B. Qasim: Narrating The Muslim Conquest Of Sindh |
Associate Professor, Department of History, Columbia University |
| 2008 | Fuhrmann, Arnika | Ghostly Desires: Sexual Subjectivity in Thai Cinema and Politics after 1997 |
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University |
| 2008 | Kinra, Rajeev | Secretary-Poets In Mughal India And The Ethos Of Persian: The Case Of Chandar Bhan Brahman |
Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University |
| 2008 | Tiwari, Bulbul | Maha Multipedia: A Nine-Night Performance Of The "Mahabharata" Reworked In Mixed Media | Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University |
| 2007 | Yazijian, Edward | From Performance To Literature: The “Candimangala” Of Kavikankana Mukundarama Cakravarti |
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Furman University |
| 2006 | Cox, Whitney | Making A Tantra In Medieval South India: The Maharthamañjari And The Textual Culture Of Cola Cidambaram |
Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago |
| 2006 | Sahota, Guriqbal | A Literature Of The Sublime In Late Colonial India: Romanticism And The Epic Form In Modern Hindi And Urdu | Associate Professor, Department of Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| 2005 | Chandra Shobhi, Prithvi | Pre-Modern Communities And Modern Histories: Narrating Virasaiva And Lingayat Selves | Associate Professor, Department of History, Krea University |
| 2005 | Gautam, Sanjay | Conflict Of Callings: Literature, Politics, And The Birth Of Pain In The Poetry Of Muktibodh (1917-1964) | Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 2005 | Nicholson, Andrew | Doctrine And Boundary-Formation: The Philosophy Of Vijñanabhiksu In Indian Intellectual History | Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University |
| 2004 | Bledsoe, Bronwen | Written In Stone: Inscriptions Of The Kathmandu Valley’s Three Kingdoms | Adjunct Assistant Professor and Curator of the South Asia Collection, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University |
| 2004 | Ayres, Alyssa | Speaking Like A State: Nationalism, Language, And The Case Of Pakistan | Dean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University |
| 2004 | Fair, Carol | The Historical Novels Of Bhai Vir Singh: Narratives Of Sikh Nationhood | Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
| 2004 | Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali | Unfinished Histories: Gendered Violence and National Identity in Women’s Writings | Professor, Department of English, James Madison University |
| 2004 | Vajpeyi, Ananya | Politics Of Complicity, Poetics Of Contempt: A History Of The "Sudra" In Maharashtra 1650-1950 Ce | Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| 2003 | Majumdar, Rochona | Marriage, Modernity, and Sources of the Self: Bengali Women C. 1870-1956 | Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago |
| 2003 | Busch, Allison | The Courtly Vernacular: The Transformation Of Brajbhasa Literary Culture (1590-1690) | Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University |
| 2003 | Rotman, Andrew | Monks, Merchants, And A Moral Economy: Visual Culture And The Practice Of Faith In The Divyavadana | Professor, Department of Religion, Smith College |
| 2002 | Veidlinger, Daniel | Spreading The Dhamma: The Written Word And The Transmission Of Pali Texts In Pre-Modern Northern Thailand | Professor, Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico |
| 2000 | Phukan, Shantanu | Through A Persian Prism: Hindi And Padmavat In The Mughal Imagination | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University |
| 2000 | Schneibel, Jeffrey | The Construction Of Jagannath |
University Archivist and Pastoral Resident, University of Portland |