April is #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth

Arab American Heritage Month is a time to celebrate and recognize the rich histories, cultures, traditions, and contributions of the Arab American community.

Take a look at this video of Chancellor May and Dr. Dalia Ghanem sharing a message honoring the culture, traditions, and contributions of the Arab American community. 

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UC Davis Associate Professors Sven-Erik Rose and Mairaj Syed have been featured in the UC Davis College of Letters & Science Magazine for their work responding to the recent Israel-Gaza conflict.

Prantik Bharadwaj

Title of Research: The Home and The World: Comparing Cookbooks and Restaurants in their Effect on Forming Perceptions of Indian Identity in the USA

Faculty Advisor: Nicole Ranganath, Assistant Professor of Middle East/South Asia Studies

Katherine Fierro

Arabic Program: Zayn Hasan Ali and Sarah A  Alsaif

Hebrew Program: Sam Matan Saxe-Taller

Hindi/Urdu Program: Darian Arsalan Khattak and Manraj Dhillon

Persian Program: Henna Said Bayat

Punjabi Program: Anhad Singh

We are thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Amy Motlagh from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis has been awarded the UC Davis Revitalization Research Program Grant!

Congratulations to the 2024 Suad Joseph Graduate Grant Recipients:

Whitné Moussan (Department of Anthropology)

Title of Research: The Ideology of Risk and Resilience: Tracing an Absent State through Ethnopsychiatry and Difference in Lebanon

Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Fatima Mojaddedi

Xiwen Yang (Department of History)

Title of Research: Views from the Province: An Eighteenth-Century Ottoman’s Reckoning with Science

Faculty Advisor: Professor Baki Teczan

Hosted by the UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies, Professor Pratap Mehta, Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton University, delivers this year's India at the Crossroads Lecture: "Nationalism and Democracy in India" on April 4, 2024. 

A recording of the lecture can also be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZvXmBp4Low&ab_channel=UCDavisMiddleEast%2FSouthAsiaStudies

Dr. Nicole Ranganath receives a grant under the UC Davis Humanities and Social Sciences Stimulating Exceptional and Essential Discovery (S.E.E.D.) Funding Program for her project titled: “The Poetics of Partition: A Sonic History of Collective Trauma in South Asia and the Diaspora.”

S.E.E.D. aims to support research activity historically underfunded and beyond the STEM fields.

Suvam Sabat is an undergraduate student majoring in History and minoring in Technology Management.

Title of Research: A Half-Union: The Success and Failures of Federalism in India during its first Decade

Faculty Advisor: Sudipta Sen

Ashwin Ramakrishna is an undergraduate student majoring in Economics and minoring in India/South Asia Studies.

Title of Research: The Racialization of Caste in Tamil Nadu