Purnima Bose, associate professor of English. Her book, Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India (Duke University Press), was published in September.

Henry Glassie, professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, did fieldwork among the stone statue makers of Banaras last summer. The Vernacular Architecture Forum, the leading professional American society for the study of traditional architecture, has just named their lifetime achievement award the “Henry Glassie Award for Outstanding Achievement.”

Sumit Ganguly, Rabindranath Tagore Professor and Director, India Studies, attended the American Institute of India Studies Executive Committee meeting, held in March at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in San Diego. He presented a paper titled “The Evolution of an Epistemological Community: The Evidence from India” at the International Studies Association annual meeting in Montreal. In April, he delivered an address, “Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947,” at the Center for International Studies, University of Missouri at St. Louis, and presented an address titled “Enduring Conflicts: India and Pakistan” at the Institute for the Study of War and Diplomacy at the University of Indianapolis. He was interviewed on issues relating to India and Pakistan on the BBC/PRI program The World, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, WBUR Boston’s On Point, and the BBC World Service news. He published two books: Fighting Words: Language Policies and Conflict in Asia (MIT Press), edited with Michael Brown of Georgetown University; and The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect (Frank Cass). Articles published this year include “The Crisis of Indian Democracy” in the October issue of the Journal of Democracy, “India’s Foreign Policy Grows Up” in the winter 2003-2004 edition of World Policy Journal, and “Pakistan, the Other Rogue Nation” in the April issue of Current History. Dr. Ganguly is now a bi-weekly columnist for The Hindu, one of India’s most prominent newspapers.

David Haberman, chair of the Religious Studies, attended the International Conference on World Peace held at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, where he delivered a plenary address on “Gandhi and Deep Ecology” and a paper titled “River Goddess and Strategies for Environmental Action.” He was a featured speaker for the annual Earth Month celebrations at California State University, Chico, delivering a slide presentation titled “Yamuna: River of Love in an Age of Pollution.” This spring he published a revised second edition of Ten Theories of Human Nature (Oxford University Press) with co-author Leslie Stevenson of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Rebecca Manring, assistant professor of India Studies, received a RUGS Faculty Research Fellowship which allowed her to finish her book, Reconstructing Tradition: Advaita Acarya and the Gaudiya Vaisnava Movement on the Cusp of the 20th Century, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. The Association for Asian Studies has accepted her Sukumar Sen (Barddhaman Sahitya Sabha) Manuscript Collection Catalogue for electronic publication. On pre-tenure teaching leave during the spring semester, she spent January in Kolkata, working with sahajiya manuscripts in the Bengali Department of Calcutta University. She participated in the workshop for Less Commonly Taught Languages (specifically, Indian languages) held at the University of California, Berkeley, the South Asia Microforms Project meeting at the AAS in San Diego, and in early April participated in the pedagogy workshop held by the Wabash Centre as a pre-conference event for the regional American Association of Religion meeting in Chicago.

Jan Nattier, associate professor of Religious Studies, is currently at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University in Tokyo on an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship studying early Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist texts.

Radhika Parameswaran, assistant professor of Journalism, published two book chapters, “Resuscitating Feminist Audience Studies: The Politics of Representation and Resistance” and “Reading Nancy Drew in Urban India: Nostalgia, Gender, and Postcolonialism” in the early fall. Her paper “Global Queens, National Celebrities: Tales of Feminine Triumph in Post-Liberalization India” won a first place faculty paper award at the annual convention of the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, and has been accepted for publication in Critical Studies in Media Communication. She delivered two invited talks, at Rutgers University and the University of Illinois, and received a grant-in-aid from the Office of the Vice President for Research for her current work on the politics of gender and skin color in India.

Pravina Shukla, assistant professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, did fieldwork in Banaras for her upcoming book on clothing and body adornment in modern India, which should go to press this summer.

Andrea Singer, India studies librarian, recently published “Providing Access to Sources for India Studies at Indiana University Libraries: Piecing a Quilt.” She attended the 32nd Annual Conference on South Asia at Madison and the 56th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, where she was elected to the five-member Executive Committee of the South Asia Microforms Project.

Rakesh H. Solomon, associate professor of Theatre and Drama, made a plenary presentation, “From Orientalist to Postcolonialist Constructions of Indian Theatre: A Historiographic Critique,” at the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research in Durham, NC, in November. His article, “When Did Brahma Create Theatre? And Other Questions of Indian Theatre Historiography,” will appear in Re/writing National Theatre Histories, Studies in Theatre History and Culture, edited by Thomas Postlewait (University of Iowa Press).