CSAS Newsletter 

Can you believe it’s November? We’ve had a busy semester so far and are glad to have you with us. We will be announcing our Spring Symposium Calll for Papers soon, please watch our CSAS News space for upcoming details and information. Also, Our J Watumull Scholarship for the study of India application is open, you can find links for information and instructions to apply below. 

From CSAS,
Anna Stirr, Director
Mari Martinez, Coordinator

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CSAS News

Thank you for joining CSAS this semester at our many events!

Special Thanks to:
J Watumull Scholarship Awardee Nikhil Stewart
 Director Prabhash Chandra, I’m Not The River Jhelum
Director Muhammad Ali Ijaz, Oli Kāhuli
Professor Keya Maitra, Professor of Philosophy at UNC Asheville 
Documentary Filmmaker Samina Mishra
Department of Philosophy
Department of English

The J Watumull Scholarship for the Study of India is now open!

The J. Watumull Scholarship is now open! This scholarship for the Study of India provides support for University of Hawai`i System undergraduate or graduate students with focused and well-developed proposals to study for a minimum of two months in India. The scholarship will support students in any field, including the professional schools and community college programs.

Please carefully follow the application instructions provided on our website before using the UH System Common Scholarship Application website.
For more information please visit our website. 
Deadline: February 15, 2025

Accepting Applications for Spring 2025
Rama Watumull Collaborative Lecture Series (UH Faculty ONLY)

If you are a UH Mānoa faculty member and have someone you would like to invite please see details below on how to apply we are now accepting applications for spring 2025! 
For more information please vitis our website: https://tinyurl.com/4e39v6ve

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Faculty News

Do you have South Asian Faculty News? We would love to feature you in our newsletter! 
Email csas@hawaiil.edu with your information.

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Student News

South Asia Student Association – Looking for Members

Are you interested in joining the South Asia Student Association (SASA)? SASA is looking for new members to join in events, put together events and build community! Email csas@hawaiil.edu for more information.

Students and Student Alumni – We want to know what you’re doing!

Please email us at csas@hawaiil.edu if you are a student or alumni who would like to be featured in our spotlight! We want to know what you are doing now!

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University of Hawaiʻi System Common Scholarship Application – NOW OPEN

The University of Hawaiʻi System Common Scholarship Application is now available online for the 2025-2026 academic year. This is a single application for several hundred different scholarships.  Students attending any University of Hawaiʻi campus are encouraged to apply in order to be considered for system and campus scholarships.

Information and application can be found at www.hawaii.edu/scholarships.  You will need your UH email address in order to log into the scholarship application.
Deadline: 4:00 p.m. (HST) March 3, 2025.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are applying for The J. Watumull Scholarship for the Study of India
Follow the instructions on our website before opening the common application.

Magnum Foundation – OPEN CALL  – Counter Histories Fellowship

Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with urgent questions of the present and future. For our 2025 Counter Histories Fellowship, Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals from photographers who would like to expand and complete an existing project that responds to this theme and who are excited to contribute to a creative community of fellows. 

Up to ten selected participants will receive a grant of $10,000, take part in virtual project development workshops, and connect with collaborative partners and networks. 

For more information: https://tinyurl.com/3ben242c
DEADLINE:  Friday, November 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET.

2025 Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) 

The Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) brings together diverse individuals committed to co-creating a future that is peaceful, prosperous, and just. Through place-based, experiential, and transformational learning, APLP fellows practice leadership strategies that enhance personal, team, and community effectiveness.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/22ba2he9
Deadline: November 1, 2024, @ 11:00 PM HST.

AIPS Conference/Workshop Applications Now Open!

AIPS Conference/Workshop Grants fund the organization of Pakistan-related conferences and workshops in the US as well as a conference or workshop in Pakistan.
For more information to Apply for a Conference/Workshop Grant in Pakistan
For more information to Apply for a Pakistan-related Conference/Workshop Grant in the US
Deadline: November 1, 2024.

AIIS – Junior Fellowship Mentorship Program

The American Institute of Indian Studies has initiated a mentoring opportunity for AIIS Junior Fellowship applicants who do not have advisors at their universities with South Asia expertise. 

If an applicant would like to use the mentoring opportunity for someone to read and comment on their proposal, they should send the proposal draft to the U.S. Director (aiis@uchicago.edu), with verification that applicant does not have advisor at their university with South Asia expertise. U.S. Director will pair mentors and mentees as closely as possible by field and area of interest.

Mentors have agreed to read two drafts, a preliminary one and a revised one based on mentor’s comments. The first draft submitted should not be an outline or notes. Mentees should review the helpful hints for proposals before submitting their first draft. Mentees are urged to honor this guideline and not ask for comments on further drafts.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/24err39j
Deadline: November 3, 2024

School for International Training in India for a Professional Development Program

School for International Training is excited to offer a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of global public health, gender, and community action in an Asian context through their upcoming Professional Engagement Program in India: “Public Health, Well-being, and Community Action: Beyond Western Narratives of Gender and Sexuality. ” While designed for university faculty and study abroad advisors, this professional engagement program is open to anyone with a strong interest in these subjects or the region.

Programsite visits offer immersive experience with some of India’s most impactful organizations and community groups, like the following:

• Naz Foundation, an SIT alum-founded LGBTQ+ community support organization
• Rajasthani Camp, to examine the urban healthcare delivery model
• Himachal Queer Foundation, for LGBTQ+ rights in traditional/rural societies
• Jagori Rural Charitable Trust, a support NGO for those experiencing identity-based discrimination and social exclusion
• Queer walking tour in Old Delhi

Form More Information: https://tinyurl.com/42r37ny4
Program dates: January 5 – January 12, 2025
Location: New Delhi, Palampur, McLeod Ganj, India
Cost: $3,250
Application deadline: November 3, 2024

Library of Congress 2025 Junior Fellows Program

Applications are now being accepted for the Library of Congress 2025 Junior Fellows Program (JFP). This paid, full-timesummer internship enables the next generation of diverse cultural institution professionals to experience and interpret the collections, events, and services of the world’s largest library. We invite undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent graduates from a variety of majors to apply for remote or onsite JFP internships. 

Topics for this year’s projects touch on history, journalism, music, maps, AI, and literature, as well as dive into a range of collection items from the Cold War era, rare Chinese books, cartographic items, Black press publications, Universal Music collections, and SO MUCH MORE!

Two virtual information sessions are available in the coming weeks during which attendees can learn about JFP Internship details and get tips on applying.
Registration is required
Thursday, November 7, 2024: 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm (ET)
Thursday, November 14, 2024: 6:00 pm (ET)

Deadline: November 18, 2025

2024 AIIS Fellowship Competition 

CIEE Study Abroad – Study Abroad Giveaway

Are you ready to enter the study abroad giveaway of a lifetime? Now’s your chance! CIEE Study Abroad is giving away a FREE study abroad or global internship program to one (1) lucky winner. If you’re randomly selected, you can choose ANY program for spring 2025. All program fees and departure/return flights are included (up to a $25K value). Enter by November 15, 2024* to win!

Put your name in the running today!
*Be sure to follow your institution’s deadlines and submit your CIEE Study Abroad application by CIEE’s program deadlines. Apply today!

For more information: https://tinyurl.com/3ehjvp4j
DEADLINE: November 15, 2024

2025 Critical Language Studies Scholarship Program
We are pleased to announce that the application is now open for the 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program! We welcome American undergraduate and graduate students to apply now to learn a critical language next summer on a funded language and cultural enrichment program. The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks over the summer studying one of a dozen critical languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The program provides intensive language instruction and structured cultural activities designed to promote rapid language gains.

For mor information: https://clscholarship.org/news/2024/apply-for-the-2025-cls-program
Deadline: 8:00pm EST, November 19, 2024

CIEE Study Abroad – Study Abroad Giveaway

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 
Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference – May 30 – June 1, 2025

The Asia Pacific Dance Festival (APDF) Conference is held in conjunction with one of the premiere dance festivals in the region with a focus on dance in Asia and the Pacific. APDF showcases the uniqueness and quality of dance, dancers, and choreographers throughout this part of the world with classes, performances, workshops, outreach and ceremonial activities.

The Festival Conference provides opportunities for scholars, dancers, performing artists, choreographers, performance-based activists, critics, writers, arts administrators and organizers, students, faculty, and individuals involved in dance in diverse ways to share traditional and practice-based research and dance concerns with an international audience.
For more information: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/outreach/asiapacificdance/conference2025/
Deadline: December 1, 2024, 5:00 PM HST

East-West Center-Graduate Degree Fellowship

The East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship provides master’s and doctoral funding for graduate students from Asia, the Pacific, and the United States to participate in educational, cultural, residential community building, and leadership development programs at the East-West Center while pursuing graduate study at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM).
For more information: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/education/ewc-graduate-degree-fellowship
To apply: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/apply/east-west-center-graduate-degree-fellowship-apply-now
Deadline: December 1, 2024

CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship

The Multi-Country Research Fellowship is now accepting applications! This fellowship enables US scholars to carry out transnational research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs), as well as other countries. 
The Multi-Country Research Fellowship has been running since 1993 and supports advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates, who are ‘all but dissertation,’ and scholars who have earned their PhD or terminal degree. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the US, at least one of which must host a participating ORC. ​Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or as teams and independent scholars are also eligble to apply. Each award is $12,600. 
​Each year the highest ranking Multi-Country Fellowship applicant will receive an additional $1,000 toward travel expenses through the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. The award is named after CAORC’s founding director, Dr. Mary Ellen Lane. 

Deadline: December 5, 2024
Apply here.
Questions: fellowships@caorc.org

The 2025 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA)

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) application for FY2025 is now available. This is an opportunity for doctoral students to conduct their dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. Please visit and thoroughly review all information on the Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program webpage and the Federal Register Notice. Both will discuss eligibility, application, and process details. Please note, if selected, you must have reached doctoral candidacy (i.e., approved Form II by Graduate Student Services) by the start of the fellowship in order to accept the award.  

Important Information (Please Read):
The UH Mānoa application deadline is December 16, 2024, 11:59 PM Hawaii Time. All application materials including all reference letters, language evaluations, and affiliate letter, must be uploaded to the Fulbright-Hays DDRA application system (G6) by the UH Mānoa deadline in order to be considered. The published deadline on the Fulbright-Hays Program page is for the institution, not the student applicant. Late submissions will not be considered. If you plan to apply, students must immediately contact Kristen Connors in Graduate Division (connorsk@hawaii.edu) to verify your eligibility and to begin coordinating application materials.

Deadline:December 16, 2024, 11:59 PM Hawaii Time.

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program provides U.S. educators in the arts, social sciences and humanities with opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. In summer 2025, seminars will be offered in:

• Uruguay and Peru,
• India, and 
• Greece and Türkiye

Each thematic seminar features educational lectures and interactive cultural activities specifically designed for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educators, including visits to local schools and organizations and meetings with education administrators, government officials, policymakers, teachers, and students. Participants draw on their experiences during the program to create new or enhance existing cross-cultural curricula for use in their U.S. classrooms and school systems. Sixteen educators participate in each seminar. The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program covers airfare, room and board, and program costs. Participants are responsible for covering the seminar cost-share of $750.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/276hbnhc
Deadline: January 7, 2025

2025 Boren Awards for International Language Study

Boren Scholars and Fellows study a wide range of critical languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili. Boren Awards are available to students of all proficiency levels who are committed to enhancing their skills.

Boren Scholars and Fellows from diverse fields of study immerse themselves in the cultures in world regions underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Boren Awards alumni are committed to public service, working in positions critical to U.S. national security throughout the Federal Government, including the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, and USAID.

For more information: https://www.borenawards.org/

DEADLINE: Boren Fellowships for graduate students: January 22, 2025
DEADLINE: Boren Scholarships for undergraduate students: January 29, 2025

AIIS summer 2025 and Academic year 2025-2026 Language Programs – 
There are three different programs available

The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2025 and academic year 2025-2026 language programs. For summer Hindi we require the equivalent of one year of prior Hindi study. For summer Urdu, we require the equivalent of one year of either Hindi or Urdu. We can offer courses at all levels, including beginning, in other Indian languages for the summer. Summer students should apply for FLAS or other funding if available at their institutions to cover the costs of the program. AIIS will award language fellowships, on a competitive basis, to academic year and fall semester students, which would cover all expenses for the program. Those eligible for these fellowships are U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will have had the equivalent of at least two years of prior language study by September 2025. Application Deadline: January 31, 2025. 
For more information and to apply visit:  https://www.indiastudies.org/language-programs/
For more information: Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS

Watch this space for upcoming events!

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University of Washington – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

The University of Washington in Seattle invites applications for a 100% full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the history of art in South Asia and its diasporas from the 19th century to the present.
For more information: https://apply.interfolio.com/152109
Deadline: November 1, 2024

University of California – Los Angeles – Assistant Professor Position, Postcolonial Literature

The Department of English at UCLA is pleased to invite applications for a tenure-track position in postcolonial literature at the rank of beginning Assistant Professor.
For more information: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09851
Deadline: November 1, 2024

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) – US Director position 

AIIS invites applications for the US Director position to begin 1 April 2025. The U.S. Director is the chief executive officer of the Institute in the United States and oversees all its operations in close collaboration with the Director General based in India, and the elected President and other officers.

Full application information and instructions: 
www.indiastudies.org/open-search-for-us-director/
DEADLINE: November 1, 2024

Position Announcement for Tamil Studies in Transregional Perspective

The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track/early tenure position at the Assistant or early Associate Professor level in Tamil humanities. 
For more information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28146/. 
Deadline: November 1, 2024

Hamilton College – Asian Islam Tenure Track Position

The Asian Studies program of Hamilton College invites applications for a tenure track position in any discipline on Islam in Asia, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Iran/Persia, to begin July 1, 2025.  
For more information: https://apply.interfolio.com/153022
Deadline: November 10, 2024

Cornell University – 2025-27 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Asian Studies invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning August 1, 2025. The fellowship carries a stipend of $62,000/year.
For more information: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowships
Deadline: November 15, 2025

Pennsylvania State University – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Architectural History

The Department of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Architectural History (1800 to the present), with a preferred research focus on Africa, the Americas, the Islamic World, and/or the Middle East/West Asia.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/86e7fbjy
Deadline: November 15, 2024

UW Department of Asian Languages and Literature – Assistant Professor in Telugu Literature

The UW Department of Asian Languages and Literature is hiring an inaugural endowed Assistant Professor in Telugu Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies. This is only the second professorship in Telugu in the US (after Emory).
For more information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67764
Deadline: November 15, 2024

Southern Methodist University – Religious Studies Lecturer in South or Southeast Asian Islam

The Department of Religious Studies in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University invites applications for a non-tenure track, renewable position in South Asian or Southeast Asian Islam at the rank of Lecturer. 
For more information: https://apply.interfolio.com/150783
Deadline: November 15, 2024

University of Toronto Mississauga – Postdoctoral Fellow in South Asian Studies

The Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in South Asian Studies. The appointment will begin on February 1, 2025. The post ends on June 1, 2026 with the possibility of extension after successful review.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/y8saepbp
Deadline: November 18, 2024

University of Hawaii at Manoa – Tenure Track Assistant Professor

University of Hawaii at Manoa has an open tenure-track position at the assistant professor level, and they are seeking candidates who have “demonstrated expertise in contemporary Japan, Korea or South Asia and their relations with other Asian countries in the fields of traditional and/or non-traditional security.” The position is open to applicants with Ph.D. degrees in any field from the social sciences, humanities, or other relevant areas.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/2y8na3t3
Deadline: November 18, 2024

New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Program, 2025-26

ISAW anticipates appointing scholars in several different categories for the 2025-26 academic year. Applicants in all categories should be individuals of scholarly distinction or promise in any relevant field of ancient studies who will benefit from the stimulation of working in an environment with colleagues in other disciplines. 
For more information:
(1) Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor: https://apply.interfolio.com/149667
(2) One-Year Research Scholar: https://apply.interfolio.com/149573
(3) Externally Funded Visiting Scholar: https://apply.interfolio.com/149655
Deadline: November 20, 2024

University of California Berkeley – Lecturer Pool – South and Southeast Asian Studies

The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, invites application of a pool of qualified temporary, non-tenure track lecturers, to teach courses in South and Southeast Asian Studies, should a need arise.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/k79b5kr2
Deadline: November 30, 2024

University of Hawaii at Manoa – Tenure Track Assistant Professor

University of Hawaii at Manoa has an open tenure-track position at the assistant professor level, and they are seeking candidates who have “demonstrated expertise in contemporary Japan, Korea or South Asia and their relations with other Asian countries in the fields of traditional and/or non-traditional security.” The position is open to applicants with Ph.D. degrees in any field from the social sciences, humanities, or other relevant areas. 
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/2y8na3t3
Deadline: November 18, 2024

University of Scranton Department – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

The University of Scranton Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the History of the Global South, beginning Fall 2025.
For more information: https://universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/7710
Deadline: December 1, 2024

Middlebury College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Premodern Art History

The Department of History of Art and Architecture invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Premodern Art History to teach for one academic year beginning in the fall semester of 2025. Applicants with specialties in premodern architectural history, Asia, and the Global South are encouraged to apply.
For more information: https://apply.interfolio.com/157164
Deadline: December 1, 2024

Vanderbilt University – Senior Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu language

The Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt University seeks to make an appointment in Hindi-Urdu language instruction. The rank is Senior Lecturer, with initial appointment of three years and possibility of renewal, conditional upon performance review and institutional need.
For more information: https://apply.interfolio.com/156646
Deadline: December 6, 2024

Princeton University – Assistant Professor in South Asian Art History (tenure-track)

The Department of Art & Archaeology invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in South Asian art history before 1850.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/49bzyxaj
Deadline: January 15, 2024

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars Fellowship

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars Fellowships in Buddhist Studies places recent recipients of the PhD in professional positions at host institutions (museums, libraries, and publications) that present and interpret knowledge of Buddhist traditions. The selected Buddhism Public Scholars will use their academic knowledge and professional expertise to bolster the capacity of host institutions in the area of Buddhist art and thought in any tradition and location where Buddhism is practiced. We expect the Buddhism Public Scholars initiative to nurture mutually beneficial partnerships between scholars and hosts that will help disseminate knowledge of Buddhist traditions to broad publics.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/2me8tdet
DEADLINE: January 23, 2025

Columbia University – Open-Rank Faculty Position (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor)

The Department of Anthropology at Columbia University invites applications for an open-rank faculty position (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor) in the sociocultural anthropology of Asia, to begin as early as July 1, 2025.
For more information: https://apply.interfolio.com/155575
Deadline: March 3, 2025

University of California Santa Cruz – Asian History Lecturer Pool

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an ongoing pool of lecturers with expertise in the fields of history of East Asia, history of Southeast Asia, and history of South Asia. 
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/58m9apm2
Deadline: June 14, 2025

Yale University – Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in South Asian Politics

The Department of Political Science at Yale University is seeking to hire a faculty member with expertise in South Asian Politics at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, beginning July 1, 2025.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/3sbv3jbx

MIT – Program Manager, India/South Asia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seeking a program manager for the Center for International Studies-MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), to be responsible for the management and overall development of the India program
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/2s4z5zed

University of Washington – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Art History

The Division of Art History in the School of Art Art History Design at the University of Washington in Seattle invites applications for a 100% full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the history of art in South Asia and its diasporas from the 19th century to the present.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/4t6tazsj

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