Students will work with Professor Walter Hakala to research ancient technologies of water retrieval, storage, and distribution across present-day India along with current efforts to revitalize neglected structures.

Get paid to help Korea-and US-based scholars study of the grammars of Hindi and Urdu! 

This project invites students with a working familiarity of either the Arabic or Devanagari scripts to help collect records of Hindi-Urdu (H-U) inscriptions through collating references and requesting articles and other notices describing them.

Seeking students to examine the ways in which religious texts and scholars circulated across Asia, assembling materials to be employed in a future graduate seminar on the history of translation in Asian religious traditions. 

In an age of Google Translate, Viki, fan fiction, and YouTube, explore how translators adapted their craft to make sense of new media.

Apply your knowledge of languages to document translations and adaptations of The Arabian Nights in libraries and popular culture! 

What can writing in public spaces tell us about changes in literacy, tourism, ethnic identity, and how history is remembered?

In what ways did the European colonization of the New World affect the cuisines, health, and material conditions of Asian societies?