New book by Katherine Bowie: Of Beggars and Buddhas

Congratulations to UW-Madison Anthropology Professor Katherine Bowie on the recent publication of her book Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand, University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. ~ An exploration of the subversive politics of …

SEASSI Summer Language Program

NEW FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION FOR FIRST YEAR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION! What do I do? CLICK HERE!   What is SEASSI? The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate …

Hmong Studies Consortium Report

The Henry Luce Foundation provided a grant of $500,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the establishment of a Hmong Studies Consortium between UW-Madison and the University of Minnesota. Numerous accomplishments were achieved by the Hmong Studies Consortium between its establishment in 2009 and the end of the grant in 2014.  These accomplishments included…