India | Simpson Center for the Humanities

Projects

Three women sit or stand near a building's doorway with colorful laundry hanging around them.

Poetics of Subaltern Life-Worlds: New Research, New Imaginaries of Informal Economies in Contemporary India

Economics, India, Public Scholarship

Excerpt from the Jain manuscript "Unhappy Yaśodhara does his duty"

Memory Construction and Emotion in India, Past and Present

Asian Languages & Literature, India, Religion, South Asia

Photo of Wu Mali art installation called Secret Garden in which a flower garden rises from a path formed by two tall rock walls.

New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia, and the World

Art, China, East Asia, Feminisms, India

Articles

Sonal Khullar's Book Probes Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India

UW Faculty, Art History, India

Painting of 18th century singer and poet Bani-thani

Heidi Pauwels awarded NEH fellowship

Awards, Asian Languages & Literature, India

Katz Lectures

Black and white image of Romila Thapar looking into the camera.

Interpretations of Early Indian History

India

People

Jessica Bachman sits in front of a curtained window while wearing a black shirt.

Jessica Bachman (she/her/hers)

Jessica Bachman was a 2020 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with

20th Century, History, India, South Asia, Soviet Union

Radhika Govindrajan (she/her/hers)

I am a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, South Asian Studies, and political anthropology.

Animal Studies, Anthropology, Environment, India, Postcolonialism, South Asia

Akanksha Misra (she/her/hers)

Akanksha Misra received her Ph.D. in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies from the University of Washington in 2020. Her doctoral dissertation research explored the creation of gendered and sexual citizenship through bodies of teachers and children in schools in India and Turkey.

Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, India, Middle East

Sudhir Mahadevan (he/him/his)

Sudhir Mahadevan is an Associate Professor in Comparative History of Ideas (with a joint appointment in Cinema and Media Studies). He is the author of A Very Old Machine: the Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY Press, 2015).

Cinema, India, Visual Culture