SAC Members

• Catherine Becker, University of Illinois at Chicago, Art History (Chair)
• Purnima Dhavan, University of Washington, History
• Sara Beth Shneiderman, University of British Columbia, Anthropology
• Mona Bhan, DePauw University, Anthropology
• Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Transnational Asian Studies
• Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College, Religion
• Manan Ahmed, Columbia University, History
• Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury, Amherst College, Anthropology
• Shenila Khoja-Mooliji, Bowdoin College, Women’s Studies

SAC Committee

• Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)

Book Prizes

• The Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, which honors the author of the best English-language work in South Asian studies.
• The A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, which recognizes and encourages translations from South Asian languages into English.
• The Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize for first books on South Asia.

SAC Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper

The South Asia Council awards a prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the Annual Conference.