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Graduate Students Receive Fellowships and Awards
Congratulations to our Masters and Ph.D. students on their awards
Ph.D. Students Awarded Fellowships by the Office of Graduate Studies
Congratulations to Urmila Patil, Shaohua Guo, David Brick, and Maeri Megumi, all of whom will receive fellowships from Graduate Studies for the 2008-2009 academic year.
These Graduate Studies fellowships are among the most prestigious awards made by the University to current graduate students.
Graduation 2008
The Department of Asian Studies congratulates its undergraduate and graduate students who graduated this academic year!
View photos from the graduation luncheon
Doctoral Candidates Receive Grants to Conduct Research in India
Peter Knapczyk and Nathan Tabor received multiple grants to conduct research in India during the 2008-2009 academic year.
News Archives
Mahajan Named to Dean's Distinguished Graduates List
Recent Graduate to join MA Program in Fall 2004.
Graduate Student Conference Held October 1-2, 2004
The Asian Studies Graduate Conference at the University of Texas at Austin gathered students working on original research projects across disciplines and across traditional academic divisions of Asia to present their work.
The conference provided graduate students with a dynamic forum in which to present their work and benefit from a scholarly exchange of ideas. The keynote speaker was Veena Das, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at John Hopkins University.
Graduate Students Receive Continuing Fellowships
The Department of Asian Studies is proud to announce that two doctoral candidates in Asian Cultures and Languages, Laura Brueck and Mark McClish, have both been awarded University Continuing Fellowships for 2004-2005.
This continues what is turning into a stellar record for the Department's graduate program: in the past four years six students have received these prestigious fellowships, including one, Chinese literature doctoral candidate Ma Yue, who received a University fellowship two years in a row--the first time in the program's history that has occurred. What is especially impressive considering the small size of the department's graduate population (generally around 40-50 students) is that since 2000 (with the exception of 2003-04), two of the three students nominated each year have received University fellowships. Department Chair Patrick Olivelle is not surprised at this external validation of what he considers "an extraordinary group of graduate students."
Graduate Student Featured in India Times
Karline McLain's Dissertation on Amar Chitra Katha Comics Draws Attention Overseas
Karline McLain, currently finishing her dissertation in Asian Cultures and Languages and a third-year recipient of the prestigious Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, has been featured in a recent edition of the India Times.
Department Holds 2005 Spring Festival
Annual Reception Honors Outstanding Students
The 2005 Asian Studies Spring Festival was held April 8, 2005. Asian Studies faculty, staff, and students were on hand to recognize outstanding students--both majors and non-majors--currently enrolled in ANS courses.
Graduate Students Celebrate Graduation
Congratulations to all of our students on your accomplishments!
Graduate Students Receive Fellowships
Many of our Masters and Ph.D. students were awarded fellowships this spring.
Among the recipients were:
Graduate Student Orientation on August 29
The Department of Asian Studies welcomes new graduate students at orientation
The annual Graduate Student Orientation is a chance for new students to meet continuing students, staff, and faculty, and to learn more about the Department and UT.
Welcome New Graduate Students!
We are looking forward to you joining us in August!
Ph.D. Students Perform Research Abroad
Ph.D. students receive fellowships to perform research for their dissertations.
Kukhee Choo, ACL - Japan, received a two-year Japanese Government Monbusho Scholarship to perform research at the University of Tokyo. Mark McClish and Neil Dalal, both Ph.D. students in ACL - South Asia, received Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships to research in India.
Dr. Karline McLain nominated for national award
The Office of Graduate Studies has nominated Dr. Karline McLain's dissertation entitled "Whose Immortal Picture Stories?: Amar Chitra Katha and the Construction of Indian Identities," for the CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Graduate Students Celebrate Graduation
Three graduate students in the Department of Asian Studies received their degrees this semester.
Department Holds 2006 Spring Festival
Annual Reception Honors Outstanding Students
The 2006 Asian Studies Spring Festival was held April 5, 2006. Asian Studies faculty, staff, and students were on hand to recognize outstanding students--both majors and non-majors--currently enrolled in ANS courses.
Laura Brueck Wins Awards and Becomes a Visiting Assistant Professor
Laura Brueck, a Ph.D. candidate in the South Asia program, has won the George H. Mitchell Award for Excellence in Graduate Research and the American Association of University Women's Dissertation Fellowship for her research on Dalit literature. These prestigious honors are in addition to the University Continuing Fellowship she has also won.
Graduate Research Trip to Pune, India, Will Focus on Archival and Manuscript Research
Professor Patrick Olivelle will introduce eight graduate students to the production of manuscripts
Graduate Students Receive Fellowships and Awards
Many of our Masters and Ph.D. students were awarded fellowships this spring
Ishan Chakrabarti and Kate Page-Lippsmeyer Accepted into Select Admissions Program
Students begin graduate coursework while still undergraduates.
Asian Studies celebrates the graduations of eleven of its Masters students this year
This is one of the largest graduating classes in the history of the Asian Studies graduate program.
Asian Studies Graduate Conference
The Asian Studies Graduate Conference at the University of Texas at Austin provides a dynamic forum for graduate students working on original research projects across disciplines and across traditional academic divisions of Asia to present their work and benefit from a scholarly exchange of ideas.
Asian Studies Newsletter for Fall 2006
The Asian Studies newsletter highlights some of the past year's events, changes, and student accomplishments.
What has the past year held for Asian Studies? A graduate student trip to India, undergraduate study abroad trips, new instructors and new courses, graduations, publications, alumni news, and more!
Logo Contest!! $200 prize!!
The Department of Asian Studies seeks a creative logo for our newsletter.
Please send us your own drawing or photograph of an image that embraces both East and South Asia. The selected logo will become the property of the Department of Asian Studies, and will appear on our newsletter, as well as other announcements. Please send all submissions (more than one permitted) to LShipley@mail.utexas.edu by December 20. The winner will be announced by February 1, 2007 and will receive $200.
Study Abroad Scholarship Applications due March 2
Funding available to study in China, India, Japan, or Korea.
Asian Studies Spring Festival 2007!
The 2007 Asian Studies Spring Festival was held April 11, 2007. Asian Studies faculty, staff, and students were on hand to recognize outstanding students--both majors and non-majors--currently enrolled in ANS courses.
Ph.D. Students Awarded Fellowships by the Office of Graduate Studies
Congratulations to Neil Dalal, Matthew Sayers, David Brick, and Ian Woolford, all of whom will receive fellowships from Graduate Studies for the 2007-2008 academic year.
These Graduate Studies fellowships are among the most prestigious awards made by the University to current graduate students.
Graduate Students Receive Fellowships and Awards
Congratulations to our Masters and Ph.D. students on their awards
Ph.D. student receives Fulbright-Hays to research in India
Elliott McCarter, Ph.D. student in Asian Cultures and Languages, receives a Fulbright- Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Fellowship to perform dissertation research in India during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Ishan Chakrabarti wins Rapoport-King Scholarship for thesis research
Ishan Chakrabarti has won the 2007 Rapoport-King Scholarship for his Asian Cultures and Languages Bachelors thesis on biographical writings from India in the 1600's.
February Graduate Student Spotlight: Gardner Harris, Ph.D. candidate
March: Graduate Student Spotlight: Matt Sayers, Ph.D. candidate
April Graduate Student Spotlight: Shaohua Guo, Ph.D. student