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the South Asia Initiative Congratulates Its 2008 Grantees
67 Undergraduate and Graduate students were awarded grants for research and service internships. Undergraduate research grants to India were funded from a generous donation given by the Tata Group.
For a full list of grantees and their topics, click here.
For more photos from the grant reception, click here.
New SAI Programs:
Graduate Student Associate Program:
The South Asia Initiative announces its Graduate Student Associates Program for the academic year 2008-2009. Harvard graduate students are invited to apply for these positions designed to support original and independent research on South Asia towards a Ph.D. or equivalent advanced professional degree. Up to eight such positions are offered for 2008-2009. SAI invites proposals in any discipline or field of South Asian studies and encourages work on all countries and regions of the subcontinent as well as the study of South Asia in larger connective contexts. GSAs are expected to participate in weekly meetings to discuss graduate students’ dissertations in progress and to attend other SAI seminars, workshops and conferences. Each GSA will receive a carrel on the 4th floor of CGIS South Building, a computer, funds for SAI letterhead and business cards, and a research stipend of up to $3,000. Doctoral degree candidates from all Harvard academic departments and professional schools are eligible to apply. Applicants from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences should have completed their General Examinations and commenced research on their dissertation. Applicants from professional schools should be conducting a major research project related to South Asia. Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a 1000-word description of the thesis or research project, current transcript of grades, and two letters of recommendation from faculty members familiar with the student’s work by May 27, 2008, to Ian Jackson, South Asia Initiative, CGIS S427, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (sainit@fas.harvard.edu).
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
The South Asia Initiative at Harvard University announces a new postdoctoral fellowship program to begin in 2008-09. In the program's inaugural year, SAI invites applications for appointment to two such fellowships from candidates who have received the Ph.D. between May 2003 and June 2008. SAI invites proposals in any discipline or field of South Asian studies and encourages work on all countries and regions of the subcontinent as well as the study of South Asia in larger connective contexts. Fellows are expected to teach one course and to participate in SAI seminars, workshops and conferences. Each fellow will receive a stipend of $50,000 and health insurance. Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a 2000-word description of a research project, one chapter or article length writing sample (no longer than 40 double-spaced pages), a draft course syllabus, and three letters of recommendation to Professor Sugata Bose, Director, South Asia Initiative, CGIS S427, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (sainit@fas.harvard.edu). Electronic submissions of applications will be accepted. Review of applications will begin on May 30, 2008, and will continue until the positions are filled. These fellowships are open to citizens of all countries. Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Sugata Bose, Director of the South Asia Initiative
and Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
Resources For Students traveling to India
Undergraduate Students: For a resource sheet, click here. Our Mumbai Program Officer, Radharani Ray, can be reached by e-mail at rray@fas.harvard.edu.
Graduate Students: Going to be in South Asia this summer or beyond? Fill out our online form! For those of you who will be in South Asia over the summer and beyond, if you are interested in being connected with other Harvard grad students who will also be there, we have put together a simple poll from which we will create an email listserve and compile a spreadsheet of contact information that we will distribute to the others. This will hopefully aid in folks staying in touch over the summer and having a broader network across the country. We will also be sharing this list with the Harvard South Asia Initiative so they can start compiling a list of Harvard affiliates in the region. Please fill it out at: http://poll.icommons.harvard.edu/poll/taker/pollTaker.jsp?poll=1-7682-56744
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Harvard South Asia Links:
Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS)
The "Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools" (LEAPS) project provides the detailed information needed to understand the changing educational landscape in South Asia. Over the past couple of decades, there have been dramatic changes in the educational landscape of Pakistan with exponential increases in affordable "mom-and-pop" private schools; increasingly so in rural areas. These changes broadly hold true across the rest of South Asia as well, and represent an opportunity and a challenge for educational policy, from evaluating policy reform to understanding how the private sector can help educate the poor. Over the past five years, the LEAPS project has gathered detailed data each year on the educational universe in over a hundred randomly selected rural villages in Pakistani Punjab. As of 2007, LEAPS includes four rounds of detailed school, household, and teacher surveys for 800 schools, 2,000 households and over 5,000 teachers and tests of over 12,000 children.
Asim Khwaja, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is one of the main principals in this research project, which is a joint collaboration between researchers at Harvard, Pomona College and the World Bank. Read more...
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Read President Drew Faust's Announcement on South Asia at Harvard Here:
All images copyright 2008 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
