The Hart Fellowship for Tamil Studies provides support for graduate fellowships in the form of competitive grants of up to $2000 for research travel to South Asia (one will be awarded) and $500 for domestic conference travel or in-country library research (one will be awarded).
Awardees
| 2024 | Research | Balakrishnan Raghavan (PhD student, Music, UC-Santa Cruz) Queer Artivisms from the Margins: Practice, Advocacy, and Tamil Selfhoods |
| Shibi Laxman Kumaraperumal (PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto) Tamil Pandits, Print and Manuscript Culture in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
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| 2021 | Research | Henria Aton (PhD student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto) A Tamil Archival Multiverse: Power, Memory, and Loss in Contemporary Sri Lankan Archives |
| 2020 | Research | Kimberly Kolor (South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Making Histor(icit)y: Figuring Muslim traditions in eastern Sri Lanka |
| 2019 | Research | Rabindra Willford (Ph.D Candidate, Anthropology, UC San Diego) Landscapes of Intervention: Emergent Proximities among NGOs and Tribal Communities in the Nilgiris, South India |
| Conference | Kristina Hodelin-ter Wal (PhD Candidate, History, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Navigating Empire: Missionary education, migration and the mobility of Sri Lankan Tamils to Malaysia, 1800-1957 |
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| 2018 | Research | Sohini Pillai (PhD candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Epic Devotion: Regional Mahabharata Retellings in Early Modern South Asia |
| 2017 | Research | Kalyani Ramnath (Ph.D Candidate, History, Princeton University) Boats in a Storm: Law, Politics and Jurisdiction in Postwar South Asia |
| Conference | Sowparnika Balaswaminathan (Ph.D Candidate, Anthropology, UC San Diego) Vishwakarma's Children: Ethical Life and Proper Practice in an Artisan Community in South India |
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| 2016 | Research | Kaitlin Emmanuel (MA Student, South Asian Studies, Cornell University) Narratives of Modernism, Independence and Nationalism in 20th Century Sri Lanka |
| Rebecca D. Whittington (PhD candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Tug-of-ear: the play of dialect in modern Bengali and Tamil Literature |
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| Conference | Jay Ramesh (Ph.D Candidate, Religion, Columbia University) Creating a Tamil Shaiva Past: Two Moments in the History of South Indian Sthalapurāṇas. To be presented at at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. |
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| 2015 | Research | Mark E. Balmforth (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion, Columbia University) Devotion, Education, and Power in British Colonial Jaffna |
| Kristina Rogahn (Ph.D. Candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Tamil literary history from the 18th to the early 20th century. |
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| Lily Shapiro (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington) Intersection of medicine and labor in South India. |
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| 2014 | Research | Shakthi Nataraj (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley) Narratives of Sexual Identity in Tamil Nadu |
The Bodha Pravaham Fellowship for Tamil Studies provides support for undergraduate fellowships in the form of competitive grants of up to $900 for research travel to South Asia (two will be awarded).
Awardees
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2017 |
Research |
Sailakshmi Senthil Kumar (B.A. Candidate, Anthropology, Public Health, UC Berkeley) |
| Deepthisri Suresh (B.A. Candidate, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley) The Identity of Modern Day Feminism in South India |
