SAC Members

• Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Transnational Asian Studies (Chair)
• Mona Bhan, DePauw University, Anthropology
• Manan Ahmed, Columbia University, History
• Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury, Amherst College, Anthropology
• Shenila Khoja-Mooliji, Bowdoin College, Women’s Studies
• Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Political Science
• Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts Boston, Literature/Translation Studies/Art
• Jinah Kim, Harvard University, Art History

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.