AIIS acknowledges the support of the following through awards of competitive grants:
US-Based Granting Agencies
- Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Department of State and former United States Information Agency
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Science Foundation
- Department of Education
- The Smithsonian Institution
- Ford Foundation
Government of India (GOI) Granting Agencies
- Ministry of Education (Department of Higher Education), GOI
- Ministry of Culture, GOI
- Ministry of External Affairs
- Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Government of West Bengal
- State Government of Gujarat
- State Government of Haryana
- Archaeological Survey of India
- National Mission for Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA)
- Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
- SIDAC (Kala Bhoomi), Government of Odisha
- Gruh Finance Limited (CSR Funding)
- US Ambassador Fund for Cultural Preservation, U.S embassy, New Delhi
- Ford Foundation
- British Museum
Supporting AIIS will helps us to advance understanding of the culture, society, languages, economy, and politics of India. The following individuals have donated to the AIIS general fund from 1998 to the present.
Manan Ahmed
Ashok Aklujkar
Nigel Allan
Matthew Allen
Kelly Alley
Amy Allocco
Joseph Alter
Ellen Alter
Nancy Anderson
Daniel Arnold
Michael Arquin
Catherine Asher
Frederick Asher
Vivek Asija
Cecil Ault
Paul Axelrod
Alan Babb
Carol Babiracki
Prabir Bagchi
Thomas Ball
Swapna Banerjee
Richard Barnett
Amrita Basu
Bernard Bate
Ralph Bauer
Howard Baumgartel
Marguerite Baumgartel
Milo Beach
Robin Beach
Susan Bean
Jayson Beaster-Jones
Catherine Becker
Victor Begg
Gil Ben-Herut
Kim Berry
Ned Bertz
Kenneth Binmore
Edward H.R. Blitzer
Eileen Blumenthal
Richard Borgman
Elizabeth Brady
Thomas Brady
Josephine Brill
John Broomfield
Laura Brown
Rebecca Wilson Brunswig
Jayme Burchett
Geoffrey Burkhart
Allison Busch
Timothy Cahill
David Calleo
Carla
Amy Catlin
Vikram Chandhok
John Chapman
Uma Chatterjee
Indrani Chatterjee
Kumkum Chatterjee
Kalyan Chatterjee
Swati Chattopadhyay
Cyd Cipolla
Peter Claus
Gregory Clines
Lawrence Cohen
Frank Conlon
John Cort
Ryan Crais
Austin Creel
Patricia Cross
David Curley
Daniel Cutler
Kavita Daiya
Hannah Dallmann
Gurcharan Das
Avital Datskovsky
Anne David
Richard Holt Davis
Donald Davis
Alice Davison
Anthony D’Costa
Vidya Dehejia
Neil DelMonico
Veronica Dempsey
Uday Desai
Dorothy Devoe
Sara Dickey
Wendy Doniger
Wagoner Douglas
Olivia Dowling
Henry Drewal
Saaket Dubey
Mary Maples Dunn
Lelah Dushkin
John Echeverri-Gent
Diana Eck
Daniel Ehnbom
Joseph Elder
Ainslie Embree
Joan Erdman
Charlotte Eubanks
Thomas Farrell
Mariette Fay
Anne Feldhaus
Nora Fisher
Michael Fisher
Barbara Fisher
John Fisher
Nancy Fleming
Joyce Flueckiger
Geraldine Forbes
Andrew Fort
Samuel Frantz
Sandria Freitag
Robert Friedman
John Fritz
Elizabeth Fukushima
George Gadbois
Tejaswini Ganti
Patricia Gay
Ilana Gershon
Vinay Gidwani
David Giles
Harjant Gill
David Gilmartin
Diana Gisolf
Thomas Godar
Ann Gold
Daniel Gold
Robert Goldman
Sally Goldman
David Good
Nick Gottschall
Phyllis Granoff
Judith Gray
Paul Greenough
Rolf Groesbeck
Sally Grossman
Sumit Guha
Upali Arjun Guneratne
Chantal Gunn
Walter Hakala
Christie Hakim
Kathryn Hansen
Karen Hardee
Robert Hardgrave
Anne Hardgrove
Mary Harper
Anne Harrington
George Hart
Brian Hatcher
Walter Hauser
John S. Hawley
Douglas Haynes
Ed Haynes
Narayan Hegde
Carol Henderson
Ron Herring
Linda Hess
Mary Beth Heston
Alfred Hiltebeitel
Hans Henrich Hock
Robert Hueckstedt
Susan Huntington
Deborah Hutton
Warren Ilchman
William Inden
Daniel Ingalls
Kari Irwin
Sue Jacobs
Prem Jain
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Shapiro Jane
Edward Jay
Stephen Jenkins
Nemec John
Carol Johnson
Donald Johnson
Sanjay Joshi
Sheila Kaczynski
Padma Kaimal
Sunila Kale
Margaret Kane
Chander Kant
Julie Kaplan
Katherine Kasdorf
Michael Katten
Mark Katz
Marc Katz
Mary Katzenstein
Gwendolyn Kelly
John Kelly
Whitney Kelting
Eliza Kent
Meena Khandelwal
Peter Kimmelman
Rebecca Klenk
Daniel Klingensmith
Kevin Kochanek
Christopher Kochanek
Stanley Kochanek
Anthony Kochanek
Peter B. Kovler
Mary Ann Krolik
Michael Krolik
Radha Kumar
Sarah Lamb
Richard Lambert
Elizabeth Lance
Gerald Larson
Katharine Le Mee
Risha Lee
Douglas Leedy
David Lelyveld
Karen Leonard
Janice Leoshko
Alexine Lesko
Robert Lester
Babette Lightner
Steven Lindquist
Robert Linrothe
James Lochtefeld
David Lorenzen
John Lukacs
Philip Lutgendorf
Owen Lynch
Puja Maewal
Cynthia Mahabir
Yogendra Malik
Rebecca Manring
Surjit Mansingh
Peter Manuel
Emily Margaretten
David Marsh
Colin Masica
David Maxey
Laura McCoy
Rachel McDermott
Philip McEldowney
Mary McGee
Dennis McGilvray
John McLane
John McLeod
Mansvi Menon
Barbara Metcalf
Thomas Metcalf
Aruna Michie
Debra Miles
Terin Miller
Murray Milner
Gail Minault
Allyn Miner
Christopher Minkowski
Farina Mir
Aniruddha Mitra
Durba Mitra
Anne Monius
Sarah Morelli
Anne Murphy
Neeti Nair
Sriraman Narasimhan
Kirin Narayan
Vasu Narayanan
Vaishali Navkal
Pranita Nayar
Lawrence Needham
Elin Nelson
John Nemec
Daniel Neuman
Ralph Nicholas
Mimi Nichter
Deepti Nijhawan
Vishwajit Nimgaonkar
Christopher Noble
Christian Novetzke
James Nye
Kathleen O’Connell
Patrick Olivelle
Kathleen O’Reilly
Jesse Orr
Ellen Oxfeld
Cynthia Packert
Jesse Paer
Shailaja Paik
Anuradha Pandey
Kailash Pandey
Melinda Papowitz
Donna Park
Elise Parker
Hiren Patel
Iva Patel
Paul Patel
Laurie Patton
Bettina Paulk
Elyse Peters-Arnold
Indira Peterson
Laurel Peterson
Carla Petievich
Aryakorn Phaphouvaninh
Amanda Pollak
Sheldon Pollock
Barry Popkin
Karl Potter
Pamela Gwynne Price
Frances Pritchett
Thomas Pritzker
Teresa Raczek
Mary Rader
Joan Raducha
Natasha Raheja
Mridu Rai
Kalpana Raina
Dhooleka Raj
Priti Ramamurthy
Vijaya Ramesh
Barbara Ramusack
Haripriya Rangan
Arvind Rangaswamy
Anupama Rao
Lariviere Richard
Paula Richman
William Richter
Robert S. Rifkind
Eleonore Rimbault
Valerie Ritter
Alice Rivlin
Ho Robert
Ludo Rocher
Rosane Rocher
Douglas Rogers
Elizabeth Rohlman
William Roj
Alan Roland
Eva Natanya Rolf
Anne Rose
George Rosen
Gary Rossi
Susan Rothenberg
Jim Roumell
Aniruddha Roy
Angela Rudert
Kristen Rudisill
Lloyd Rudolph
Susanne Rudolph
D. Fairchild Ruggles
Gerard Rushton
Margery Sabin
Jennifer Saines
Hiromi Sakata
Richard Salomon
Larry Samuelson
Rubi Sanchez Lozoya
Usha Sanyal
Natalie Sarrazin
Bertram Schaffner
Sarah Schear
Richard Schechner
Kyle Schirmann
Mathew Schmalz
Peter Schneeberger
Laura Schnicke
Amy Schoenecker
Anna Schultz
Joseph Schwartzberg
Anna Seastrand
Anezka Sebek
Anthony Seeger
Clint Seely
Martha Selby
Warren Senders
Svati Shah
Jane Shapiro
Zoe Sherinian
Sara Simons
Thomas Simons, Jr.
Priyam Singh
Mrinalini Sinha
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Stephen Slawek
Frederick Smith
Rosalind Solomon
Walter Spink
Howard Spodek
Christopher Squier
Elsa Sreenivasan
Shikaripur Sridhar
Aleli Starosta
Stanford Steever
Emma Stein
Valerie Stoker
Rachel Sturman
Bala Subramaniam
Penelope Suleiman
Cynthia Talbot
Allen Thrasher
Robert Thurman
Thomas Timberg
William Tobey
Thomas Trautmann
Brigitte Treumann
Audrey Truschke
Gary Tubb
Herman Tull
Douglas Twells
Anand Twells
Shivani Twells
Helen Ullrich
Jyotsna Vaid
Peter Valdina
Cecilia Van Hollen
Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Sylvia Vatuk
Archana Venkatesan
Steven Vose
Bonnie Wade
Susan Wadley
Phillip Wagoner
William Waldron
Jonathan Walters
LuAnn Wandsnider
Calvert Watkins
Jonathan Weatherwax
Karl Weingartner
Brian Weinstein
Diane Weisz
Mary Susan Werntz
Charles White
P. Kamala Willey
Eddie Williams
Joanna Williams
Janice Willis
Amy Wrench
Susan Wright
Donna Wulff
Anand Yang
Glenn Yocum
Eleanor Zelliot
Melissa Zinn
Joselyn Zivin
Because of the generosity of special friends, AIIS is able to offer a number of named fellowships per year. These are:
Asher Family Fellowship
Utsavi Singh (2022-23)
Charlotte Gorant (2021-22)
Meghaa Ballakrishnen (2020-22)
Sharvari Sastry (2019-21)
Shivani Sud (2018-19)
Deepthi Murali (2017-18)
Arathi Menon (2016-17)
Natalia Di Pietrantonio (2015-16)
Holly Shaffer (2013-14)
Daniel H..H. Ingalls Memorial Fellowship
Jamie O’Connell (2022-23)
Shaashi Ahlawat (2021-22)
Kripanand Komanapalli (2020-22)
Jeremy Simmons (2018-19)
Hillary Langberg (2017-18)
Janet Um (2016-17)
Julie Hanlon (2015-16)
Jay Ramesh (2014-15)
Caleb Simmons (2013-14)
Joe Elder College Year in India Junior Fellowship
Jocelyn Bell (2022-23)
Nimisha Thakur (2021-22)
Leela Khanna (2020-22)
Kriti Budhiraja (2019-2021)
Patricia McDonough,(2018-19)
Shreyas Sreenath (2017-18)
Aniruddhan Vasudevan (2016-17)
Cheryl Deutsch (2015-16)
Joseph W. Elder fellowship in the Social Sciences
Shahana Munazir (2022-23)
Katyayni Seth (2021-22)
Sugandh Gupta (2020-22)
Indivar Jonnalagadda (2019-21)
Ishani Dasgupta (2018-19)
Vaishnavi Tripuraneni (2017-18)
Kumkum Chatterjee Memorial Fellowship in Indian History
Suvendu Ghatak (2022-23)
Aniket De (2021-22)
Sohini Chattopadhyay (2020-22)
Samyak Ghosh (2019-21)
Shaivya Mishra (2018-19)
Amanda Lanzillo (2017-18)
Ludo and Rosane Rocher Research Fellowship in Sanskrit Studies
Matthew Leveille (2022-23)
Radha Blinderman (2021-22)
Keith Cantu (2019-21)
Jed Forman (2018-19)
Jason Schwartz (2016-17)
Catherine Dalton (2015-16)
Eva Natanya Rolf (2014-15)
Metcalf Fellowship in Indian History
Anuj Kaushal (2022-23)
Anurag Advani (2021-22)
Sourav Ghosh (2020-22)
Daniel Morgan (2018-19)
Brian Cannon (2017-18)
Utathya Chattopadhyaya (2016-17)
Naveena Naqvi (2015-16)
Samira Junaid (2014-15)
Hasan Siddiqui (2013-140
Rachel F. and Scott McDermott Fellowship
Ronit Ghosh (2022-23)
Janaki Phillips (2020-22)
Mikaela Chase (2019-21)
Jazmin Graves (2018-19)
Margharita Trento (2017-18)
Aleksandra Gordeeva (2016-17)
Amrapali Maitra (2015-16)
Emma Natalya Stein (2014-15)
Simran Jeet Singh (2013-14)
Taraknath Das Memorial Fellowship
Shiva Sai Ram Urella (2022-23)
Siddharth Menon (2021-22)
Thomas R. Trautmann Fellowship
Rosalind Rothwell (2022-23)
Joslyn DeVinney (2021-22)
Brittany Puller (2020-22)
Brent Otto (2019-21)
Roy Bar-Sadeh (2018-19)
Archana Venkatesh (2017-18)
Samana Gururaja (2016-17)
Rahul Sarwate (2015-16)
Elizabeth Thelen (2014-15)
Titas Chakraborty (2013-14)
Thomas W. Simons Fellowship
Anamitraa Chakraborty (2022-23)
Arnav Bhattacharyya (2021-22)
Pritika Agarwal (2020-22)
Darshana Mini (2019-2021)
Manpreet Kaur (2018-19)
Vijayeta Singh (2017-18)
Pranav Prakash (2016-17)
Diya Paul (2015-16)
Lalit Batra (2014-15)
Rajendra Vora Fellowship for the Study of Society and Culture in Maharashtra
Jenisha Borah (2021-22)
Aditi Aggarwal (2020-22)
Gautam Ghosh (2018-19)
Mallory Hennigar (2017-18)
Rupali Warke (2016-17)
Vina Sanyal Research Award
Shashwat Dhar (2022-23)
Dipanjan Mazumder (2021-22)
Aditi Aggarwal (2020-22)
Laura Murray (2019-21)
Curt Gambetta (2018-19)
Anindita Chatterjee (2017-18)
Priscilla M. Boughton-Stanley A. Kochanek fellows supported annually by the late Stanley Kochanek between 2002-2009:
Sunila Kale (2002-03)
Gayatri Menon (2003-04)
Arpita Chakrabarti (2004-05)
Neera Singh (2005-06)
Prerna Singh (2006-07)
Shanna Dietz (2007-08)
Akshay Mangla (2008-09)
AIIS gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following colleagues who contributed to our 60th Anniversary Campaign. These contributions enabled AIIS to award additional junior fellowships to non-U.S. citizens for 2022-23; funding for this group is otherwise limited:
Manan Ahmed
Indrani Chatterjee
John Cort
Donald R. Davis
Tejaswini Ganti
Vinay Gidwani
Harjant Gill
Ann Gold
Sumit Guha
Robert Hardgrave
Philip Lutgendorf
Rebecca Manring
Gail Minault
Durba Mitra
John Nemec
Patrick Olivelle
Teresa Raczek
Mary Rader
Priti Ramamurthy
Anupama Rao
Anthony Seeger
Svati Shah
Cynthia Talbot
Audrey Truschke