On September 1, 2016, Mostafa Abedinifard of McEwan University in Canada, gave a guest lecture via skype on the topic of “Masculinities and Male Privilege in Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation” for Claudia Yaghoobi’s “Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East” … Read more

Chinese minor Julia Tenyotkin (2012) has just been awarded the National Security Education Program’s David L. Boren Fellowship, which supports language and other studies deemed critical to U.S. national security.  Click here to read the whole story.

Jordan Maly-Preuss, a Hebrew minor from the class of 2013, has won the prestigious Ertegun Graduate Scholarship, and will be going to Oxford to pursue an MA in Classics. Jordan will be studying Greek and Latin linguistics and papyrology.  Click … Read more

Senior Chinese major Matt Coss has received the Class of 1938 Joseph F. Patterson Jr. & Alice M. Patterson International Leadership Award! Established in 1977, this award is presented to the undergraduate who has made the most significant contribution to … Read more

In light of the recent passage of NC House Bill 2 (HB2), members of the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Asian Studies affirm our commitment to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment.  We are fully committed to the University’s Policy … Read more

Caroline Zullo, an Arabic minor from the class of 2015, has been selected for the elite Carnegie Junior Fellows Program. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has given this prestigious award for 25 years, and Caroline is the very first … Read more

Machik is a Washington, D.C.-based international NGO that operates on the rural Tibetan Plateau and beyond. Its work is rooted in community-based education and, in addition to running schools, extends to youth leaderships training programs, energy and environmental projects, and … Read more

Since 2006 Professor Lothspeich has been conducting research for a book on a form of Indian theatre called Ramlila which enacts the story of the Hindu god Ram. Ramlila productions occur across much of Hindi-speaking North India every fall and … Read more

Nadia Yaqub, associate professor of Arabic language and culture, has joined the editorial collective of JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the official journal of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies. Edited by Frances Hasso (Duke, Women’s Studies … Read more