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South Asian Studies: Past HUA Class of 1879 Inquiry Seminar Winners

Previous Winners

This is a list of winners who have won the HUA Inquiry Seminar Class of 1879 Award and did their project on a topic related to South Asia. Please reach out the the Humanities and Arts Department for more information about these projects. 

2017

  • Samantha Lindberg, “Patterns of Social Immobility, Discrimination, and Transnationalism of the Bene Israel”, 2017
  • Rachel Naoum, “The Persecution of the Rohingya”, 2017

2019

  • Madeline Blake, “Closing the Gender Gap in India by Innovating in the Sanitation Crisis”, 2019
  • Nikita Jagdish, “India & Pakistan’s Interconnected Nationalisms”, 2019

2020

  • Minh Anh Kieu, “Insiders, Outsiders, and In-Between: Asian Nonimmigrant Experience in the American Context of Intersectional Racism”, 2020

2021

  • Nupur Shukla, “Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Indian Migrants in the US”, 2021

2022

  • Ishani Bedre, “Exploring My Identity as an Indian American in Morocco”, 2022