Each year in the spring, the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers
University holds a small grant competition for
graduate and undergraduate students who need funds
to complete research projects focusing on South Asia or the South Asian diaspora.
While students participating in the St. Stephens
Study Abroad Program may also apply, preference is
given to graduate and undergraduate students who
are conducting original research in South Asia.
Students interested in applying must fill out an
application form, along with a five-page (maximum) double-spaced description of their project, their itinerary, and their budget, electronically to aberns@rci.rutgers.edu. If it is not possible to do so electronically, students may submit a hard copy to:
Mrs. Andrea M. Esposito
Admin. Assistant, South Asian Studies Program
Department of Anthropology
Douglass Campus
Ruth Adams Building
Rutgers University
131 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Students who have questions may contact Mrs. Andrea M. Esposito at 732-932-3346 or aberns@rci.rutgers.edu or Prof. Sumit Guha at 732-932-1870 or sguha@history.rutgers.edu.
Download the 2007 application form here.
The following students were awarded 2006 SASP Research/Travel
Awards ranging from $150 to $600 each:
- Chelsea Booth, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, who will be
conducting pre-dissertation research in Darjeeling on language and migration.
- Rama Lohani Chase, graduate student in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, whose
research involves looking at the situation of changing gender dynamics due to displacement of
people (especially Nepalis) inside and outside of local spaces in times of
political and cultural crises.
She is particularly interested in exploring how material conditions of production affect
gender embodiment and gender dynamics.
- Anil G. Jacob, graduate student in the Department of Political Science, who will conduct field research on the intersection of state-firm interactions in the area of information technology and e-governance issues in New Delhi
- Ellorashree Maitra, doctoral candidate in literatures in English, who will conduct archival research in the India Office Records Collection of the British Library on the seventeenth-century travel journal kept by Sir Thomas Roe, James I's ambassador to the Mughal emperor of India, Jahangir.
- Grishma Shah, graduate student in the Department of Global Studies, who will study the socio-cultural effects of globalization among young people in Bangalore, India
- Sonja Thomas, graduate student in the Department of Women's Studies, who will present to the panel "Reading the "Exotic": South Asia and it's Others." She will also present her paper entitled "Consuming the Body in Pain: Feminist Understandings of Difference and the 2002 Gujarat Riots." at the University of Wisconsin South Asia Center annual conference in October 2007.
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Mt. Machhapuchhare, Nepal
