Funding

The Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships

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The Institute for South Asia Studies invites graduate and undergraduate students at UC Berkeley to apply for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, which provide funding to students to encourage the study of critical and less commonly taught foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies or international aspects of professional studies.

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S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize on Pakistan

S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize on Pakistan

We invite submission of dissertations on Pakistan (or the region that is now Pakistan) in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Visual & Fine Arts, Law, and Public Health. Only dissertations submitted in English and at an accredited North American or Europe-based university will be accepted. The prize comes with a $2,500 award. For information about the current prize winner click...

South Asia Art Initiative Awards

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South Asia Artist Prize

The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites submissions of doctoral dissertations for the annual UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize. The prize will be awarded to an outstanding doctoral dissertation on the art, architecture, or visual cultures of South Asia and its diasporas from any discipline in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. The dissertation may focus on any time period from the...

Bruce R. Pray Junior Faculty & Lecturer Workshop Grant

Bruce R Pray Grants logoThanks to the generosity of Professor Emeritus Bruce R. Pray (Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies), the Institute for South Asia Studies is thrilled to offer the Bruce R. Pray Junior Faculty and Lecturer Workshop Grant. Its goal is to support UC Berkeley-based South Asia-focused tenure-track assistant professors and early...

Bruce R. Pray Undergraduate Research Grant

Bruce R Pray Grants logoThanks to the generosity of Professor Emeritus Bruce R. Pray (Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies), the Institute for South Asia Studies is able to offer the Bruce R. Pray Undergraduate Research Grant. Administered by the Blum Center for Developing Economies, this grant is open to Global Poverty and...

Mir Research Fellowship in Urdu Studies

The Mir Research Fellowship in Urdu Studies, housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley, is an award to support University of California graduate students whose scholarship focuses on a topic related to Urdu.

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The award provides for one or more graduate research awards (max: $3k) on a topic related to the study of Urdu. Eligible recipients must be enrolled at a campus in the University of California system. Funds may be used towards flights and/or living and research expenses in Europe and/or South Asia....

The South Asia Forum

The South Asia Forum offers spaces for UC Berkeley students to engage in interdisciplinary conversations on South Asia. Through reading groups, student-led research workshops, and the Young Scholars Research Symposium, these spaces will foster the growth of a new generation of South Asia scholars. The aim of this program is to provide a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to engage in scholarly dialogue and to foster the free exchange of ideas on shared research interests.

Please click on the links below for further information and application procedures for these three...

The Bhattacharya Graduate Fellowships on Contemporary India

The Bhattacharya Graduate Fellowships will award UC Berkeley graduate students competitive grants for topics related to contemporary India of up to

$1000 for research travel to India (a total of two will be awarded) and $500 for domestic conference travel for presentations (a total of four will be awarded).

The application process will begin on February 1, 2024 with the deadline for submission of application materials for travel to take place during the summer of 2024 (i.e., May through August 2024) or the 2024-25 academic year (i.e. August 2024...

The Premchand Research Award in Hindi Studies

Premchand stampThe Premchand Research Award in Hindi Studies, housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley, is an award to support undergraduate or graduate research in Hindi literature. This award is funded by an anonymous donor and named in honor of Munshi Premchand (d. 1936), a towering...

Bruce R. Pray Graduate Student Relocation Grant

Bruce R Pray Grants logoThanks to the generosity of Professor Emeritus Bruce R. Pray (Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies), the Institute for South Asia Studies is able to offer the Bruce R. Pray Graduate Student Relocation Fellowship.

Three to four grants (each worth $3000) to assist incoming South Asia-...