2020 Mellon Community College Collaborative Fellowship for Reaching New Publics

Collaborative project with Katia Chaterji.

Advisor: Anand Yang (History)
Mentors: Jim Jewell (English, North Seattle College) and Cristóbal Borges (History, North Seattle College)

2016 Mellon Collaborative Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities

Beyond the Cold War: The Afterlife of Indo-Soviet Literary Exchange

The 1950s and 1960s are widely recognized as decades of escalating political tensions and restricted cultural exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States. But this was also a time of extraordinary cultural exchange between the USSR and countries of Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia. This exhibition, oral history project, and symposium explore the history of Indo-Soviet literary exchange between the mid 1920s and late 1980s. Enabling members of King County’s diverse South Asian and ex-Soviet diasporic communities to share their stories with a wider community of residents and students, this project contributes to the decentering of Cold War cultural history away from the West and toward the global south.