SASC Awards Grants and Fellowships to Yale students

During the quiet summer months on Yale’s campus, 26 undergraduate and graduate students were busy in locales distant from Yale, immersed in summer research and language training through grants and fellowships awarded by the South Asian Studies Council.

This year, six undergraduate students with a demonstrated commitment to South Asian studies were chosen as recipients of the Rustgi Fellowship.  The fellowship, made possible through a gift from Anil Rustgi (Yale ’80), Vinod Rustgi (Yale ’75) and his wife, Eileen Boyle Rustgi (Yale ’77), aims to support increased understanding of the region among Yale students. These six students were Ariella Kristal, Austin Lord, Dur E Aziz Amna, Seoyoon Han, Ashwini Srinivasmohan, and Shalmoli Halder.

The South Asian Studies Travel Research Grant for Undergraduate students provides summer travel grants for Yale University undergraduate to research and study South Asian history, society, languages, and culture in the United States and internationally.  This year, 4 awards to undergraduate students were made. The undergraduate awardees were Ayeza Qureshi, Sampada KC, Priyankar Chand and XuanHong Tran.

Some graduate students too received this award for pre-dissertation research in South Asia, while other graduate students were awarded the grant to support language study through the SASC Research and Language Study Grants for Graduate Students. 

Aniket Aga (Anthropology)
Rea Amit (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Ariel Bardi (Comparative Literature)
Suparna Chaudhry (Political Science)
Lynna Dhanani (Religious Studies)
Nikhar Gaikwad (Political Science)
Sahana Ghosh (Anthropology)
Aleksandra Gordeeva (Religious Studies)
Anobha Gurung (School of Forestry & Environmental Studies)
Austin Lord (School of Forestry & Environmental Studies)
Jacob Rinck (Anthropology)
Niloufer Siddiqui (Political Science)
Anurag Sinha (Political Science)
Holly Shaffer (History of Art)
Emma Stein (History of Art)
Waleed Ziad (History)