AIIS Hindi student Emma Leiken attends the wedding of a friend in Kolkata The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), CAORC’s member center in India, supports the study of India through language training programs, fellowships, and two India-based research centers, on ethnomusicology and art & archaeology. Emma Leiken, now a few months into her job with Google’s People Operations team in San Francisco, reflected on her time as a Fulbright student researcher to India. “My

Four U.S. doctoral students attended the summer Persian language session at the Sa'di Foundation in Tehran, Iran. Along with six days of coursework per week, students were taken on field trips to cultural sites and locations in and outside Tehran. They had some, albeit limited, time to pursue their own research as well. The Sa'di Foundation is a newly established organization intended to centralize Persian language studies in Iran and disseminate knowledge abroad. Instead of