South Asia

Projects

Suitcases stacked against a cream colored wall

Space, Movement, and Translation

16th Century, Digital Humanities, Immigration, Middle East, South Asia
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
Logo of the South Asian Conference of the Pacific Northwest.

The Intellectual Chimera of South Asia

Humanities, Sociology, South Asia
Black and white photo of a Javanese outrigger canoe

Politics of Story Telling in Island Imperial Formations

Asian American, History, 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
Protest by detained African asylum seekers in Holot detention facility in Israel, 2014.

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
Black and white page graphic of motion picture camera with name of film festival

From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Collector's Assemblage of Indian Cinema

Cinema, South Asia, Visual Culture

Articles

Four South Asian men in the 1930s wearing fezzes and sherwanis

William Bamber Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

South Asia, Cultural Studies, Awards
Sonal Khullar

Khullar Wins Asian Studies Award for Book on Indian Art and Identity

UW Faculty, Feminisms, South Asia
Christian and his co-authors dress in the same disguises the film characters wear at the end of the film for a book celebration at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2015.

Novetzke Co-Authors Book on Classic Bollywood Film, Dresses the Part

UW Faculty, South Asia, Cinema
Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566)

Now Open to the Public and Online: "Is there a Persianate Modernity?" Symposium

Middle East, South Asia, Asian Languages & Literature, Persianate
Christian Novetzke in glasses, a grey suit, and a print colored shirt. He is standing next to a line of books on shelves.

Novetzke Receives National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship

Awards, South Asia, Poetry, Religion, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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
Portrait of Radhika Govindrajan

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
Jenna Grant stands outside in front of a brick wall wearing a patterned shirt.

Jenna Grant (she/her/hers)

Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology and medical humanities; feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies (STS); visual anthropology; and Southeast Asia Studies.

Feminisms, Health Humanities, Medical Sciences, Sociology, South Asia, Visual Culture
Jordanna Bailkin wears a striped shirt in front of a white wall.

Jordanna Bailkin (she/her/hers)

Jordana Bailkin is a scholar of modern Britain and empire who has been dedicated to exploring the global dimensions of British studies and participating in scholarly and public conversations about Britain’s shifting status in the world.

Africa Studies, Colonialism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race, South Asia
Christian Novetzke wears a black shirt and glasses.

Christian Novetzke (he/him/his)

Christian Lee Novetzke is Professor in the South Asia Program, the Comparative Religion Program, and the International Studies Program at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. He is also Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas department.

Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Composition Studies, Religion, South Asia
Cricket Keating sits behind a desk wearing a red and grey sweater.

Christine (Cricket) Keating (she/her/hers)

Cricket Keating is an Associate Professor in the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Department. Her research is in the areas of political theory, decolonial politics, popular education and critical pedagogy, queer politics, transnational feminist theory, and technofeminism.

Colonialism, Feminisms, Latin America, Pedagogy, Political Science, Queer Studies, South Asia
A portrait of Jorge Bayona wearing a collared shirt.

Jorge Bayona (he/him/his)

Jorge Bayona was a 2019 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with 

History, South Asia
A portrait of Anna Nguyen wearing glasses.

Anna Nguyen (she/her/hers)

Anna Nguyen is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow.

Asian American, History, South Asia
Profile of Vicente Rafael wearing glasses and a black sweater.

Vicente L. Rafael (he/him/his)

Vicente L. Rafael was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Anthropology, Colonialism, South Asia
Photograph of Reuven Pinnata from the chest up, wearing a black shirt and a red Nintendo jacket, against a green blur of foliage.

Reuven Pinnata (he/him/his)

Reuven Pinnata was born and raised in Surabaya, Indonesia and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, South Asia