SAC Members

• Purnima Dhavan, University of Washington (Chair)
• Rachel McDermott, Barnard College, Columbia University
• Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
• Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University
• Sara Beth Shneiderman, University of British Columbia
• Catherine Becker, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Mona Bhan, DePauw University
• Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University
• Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College

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.