Photo taken by Byron Gray (India 2020) depicting an eastern cattle egret perched on a log in front of coloful fishing boats on water.

Photo Credit: Byron Gray (Cattle egret in fishing village of Gorai - Mumbai, India 2020)

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Anubha Anushree and Mejgan Massoumi, both Ph.D. candidates in History at Stanford University, sat down with Stanford Global Studies Communications to talk about how they have decided to study modern India and Afghanistan for their dissertation…
Dr. Maira Hayat (Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology & Woods Institute) has written for Society for Cultural Anthropology about the 2018 general elections in Pakistan. She concludes that "[T]he promise of New Pakistan has exerted a strong pull…
We chatted with Nandita Das, an Indian actor and director who has appeared in more than 40 feature films, about the making of her newest film, Manto, and how Saadat Hasan Manto's writings may shed light to our times. Please enjoy a snippet…
We are delighted to host artist Gauri Gill under the auspicies of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF).  Gauri Gill’s (MFA ’02) work sits at the intersection of photography, anthropology and performance…
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