Sungok Hong
(Languages and Cultures of Asia) was awarded a University Dissertator
Fellowship for Semester I, 2004 - 2005.
Amanda Fielder
(Languages and Cultures of Asia) was awarded a Fulbright for India
for 2005-06.
Reece Jones was
awarded the Political Geography Specialty Group PhD Paper Award
at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in
Denver for his paper titled Sacred Cows and Thumping Drums: Claiming
Territory as 'Zones of Tradition' in British India.
Randall Law (Anthropology)
received a University Dissertator Fellowship for 2004-2005 from
the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin. He also received
a Vilas Travel Grant, in May 2004.
2004-2005 FLAS
Jessica Athens, Urban and Regional Planning, M.S. Program,
Advisor: Jack Huddleston. This is Jessica’s second year
of Hindi study. Her focus is international development planning
in India, and she is particularly
interested in economic development through improved social programs.
Her research has focused on how health care provision can contribute
to poverty alleviation efforts.
Michael Coggins, Languages
and Cultures of Asia, MA program, Advisor: Professor Joseph Elder,
is currently in 6th semester Hindi. He is finishing his MA thesis
on comparative discourse analysis of a Hindi and English news
text, focusing on language ideology and nationalism. He plans
to pursue a PhD in anthropological linguistics at another institution
after completing his MA.
Krista Coulson,
Anthropology, Ph.D. Advisor: Kirin Narayan. Krista is in her fourth
year of Hindi study and will continue her Marathi study with the
AIIS summer language program. In her first year of a PhD in Cultural
Anthropology, her research interests focus on expressive traditions
and protest movements in Maharashtra.
Sangeeta Desai,
Languages and Cultures of Asia, PhD Program, Co-Advisors: Professors
Charles Hallisey and Velcheru Narayana Rao. Sangeeta is studying
third year Telugu in preparation for dissertation research on
the Bhagavatamu. This text is a 14th century Telugu retelling
of the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana, and Sangeeta is interested in
finding out what active reading practices of the regional Telugu
retelling might suggest about the pan-Indic Sanskritic version.
Edward Ray Falls,
Languages and Cultures of Asia, MA Program, Advisor: John Dunne,
is currently writing his MA on mereological analysis in the history
of Buddhist philosophy. His major language is Tibetan, and he
is currently taking sixth semester Tibetan. Next Fall, he will
be entering the Ph D program in the Department of Religion at
Emory University.
Reece Jones,
Geography, PhD Program, Advisor: Lawrence Dahl, is preparing himself
for an academic career on the political geography of South Asia
focusing on borders and poltiical boundaries in Bengali-speaking
regions. He has studied Bengali in summers in SASLI and is now
studying Hindi during the academic year to increase his ability
to do multi-locale research.
Christian Haskett,
Languages and Cultures of Asia, PhD Program, Advisor: Professor
John Dunne. Christian is studying Advanced Tibetan and his research
interests include the history of Buddhism and philosophy in the
Himalayan region, and the translation of Buddhist texts from Tibetan
and Sanskrit.
Christopher Limburg,
Geography, MS program, Advisor: Professor Robert Sack. Christopher
is studying Advanced Tibetan and is involved in research on Buddhist
notions of place and its making by examining spiritual landscape
in Himalayan pilgrimage.
Elizabeth Monson,
Languages and Cultures of Asia, PhD Program, Advisor: John Dunne.
Liz is concentrating on the use of South ASian Buddhist literature
as a vehicle for investigating issues of ethics and morality.
Hamsa Michael Stainton,
Languages and Cultures of Asia, MA program, Advisor, Professor
Gudrun Buhnemann. Hamsa is studying Hindi and Sanskrit and is
focusing on the Hindu religious traditions of Northern India
