The Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia is pleased to offer a thesis prize in South Asian Studies.  The prize will be awarded annually for an outstanding honors thesis on issues related to South Asian Studies in any discipline.  The Saxena Center invites faculty OR thesis-writing students in all concentration fields to nominate honors theses for the prize.  

If you wish to nominate a thesis, please send a pdf of the thesis to the CCSA Director of Undergraduate Studies, Tiraana Bains (Tiraana_bains@brown.edu) under the subject line “Saxena Center Thesis Prize.”  The deadline is April 30, 2025 at 4pm.  Awards will be announced in advance of Commencement.  The thesis prize carries with it an award of $500.