Call for Applications: Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia Graduate Prize Teaching Fellowship
Introduction to South Asia | Spring 2025

Description: The Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia invites applications from advanced doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences at Brown University to teach an introductory-level undergraduate seminar on the study of South Asia. The course will emphasize South Asian themes.

All proposed courses should address themes of shared interest across South Asia and build on the rich interdisciplinary literature of the region. Applicants are encouraged to identify their own approach to course design and content, although sample syllabi are provided. South Asia faculty at Brown will be available to mentor the teaching fellow on final course content. The course will be taught in the department of the selected fellow and may be cross-listed with Watson. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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.

The Saxena Center invites submissions of a completed paper written in any class or independent study on a topic relevant to South Asian Studies for consideration for the prize.  Up to four prize papers will be selected. The length of the paper is open as is the disciplinary and/or theoretically orientation.  Submissions are welcome from faculty and from self-nominations.

If you wish to submit a paper for consideration, please send a pdf of the paper to the CCSA Director of Undergraduate Studies, Tiraana Bains (Tiraana_bains@brown.edu) under the subject line “Saxena Center Paper Panel Submission.”  The deadline is April 30, 2025 at 4pm.

Please direct any questions regarding either prize submission to Tiraana Bains (Tiraana_bains@brown.edu).