Grantee Database

Association for Asian Studies

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2021
• Art History
• Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Pakistan to United States

for "Visualizing and Envisioning Asia: Films, Documentaries and Advocacy in Southeast Asia and South Asia,” a program of film screenings and virtual roundtables that will bring together film and documentary directors, producers, and actors from Asia’s lesser-known regions.

• 2020
• Art History
• Thailand to United States

Organization/Project Grant to bring artists and museum curators from Asia to participate in a roundtable discussion on "Decolonizing Southeast Asian Art and Art History" at the Association’s annual conference.

• 2018
• Arts Criticism
• Cambodia, East Timor to United States

a Project Grant to bring four artists from Asia to the U.S. to participate in a roundtable discussion on arts under military occupation during the 2019 AAS Annual Conference

Shubho Saha

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 2016
• Visual Art
• Bangladesh to United States

for three months of research on printmaking best practices and studio management in the United States.

Sourav Chakma

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 2014
• Music
• Bangladesh to United States

to support a journey by a Bangladeshi musician to the United States for research on Native American music traditions, preservation of musical forms, and the evolution of traditional musical practices.

Ashit Mitra

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 2012
• Visual Art
• Bangladesh to United States

For a six-month grant to undertake a residency at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City, beginning in spring 2012.

Firoz Mahmud

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 2010
• Visual Art
• Bangladesh to United States

For a six-month grant to carry out dissertation research, observe contemporary art activities, meet artists and curators, and participate in an artist residency program in New York and California.

Kalidas Karmakar

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 2006
• Visual Art
• Bangladesh to United States

three-month fellowship to observe art activities and create new work as a resident artist at the Point B Studios in Brooklyn, New York in fall 2006

Mamunur Rashid

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 1995
• Theater
• Bangladesh to United States

To travel from New York to San Francisco in order to meet with members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and to discuss with them plans for the development of a new collaborative theater project involving the Mime Troupe and your theater company in Bangladesh.

Enamul Haque

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 1992
• Art History
• Bangladesh to United States

To support continued research on sculpture of Bengal and Bihar in the United States

• 1986
• Theater
• Bangladesh to United States

To conduct research on sculpture from Bengal in public and private collections in the United States

• 1972
• Museum Studies
• Bangladesh to India

to participate in the Seminar on Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Properties, New Delhi, February 1972, and to survey the effects of the war in Bangladesh on works of art and museums.

Perween Hasan

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 1983
• Art History
• Bangladesh to United States

Participate in the American Committee on South Asian Art's Symposium on South Asian Art held in Denver, Colorado in spring 1983, and to complete a program leading to the Ph.D. degree in art history at Harvard University in spring 1984

• 1983
• Art History
• Bangladesh to United States

Participate in the American Committee on South Asian Art's Symposium on South Asian Art held in Denver, Colorado in spring 1983, and to complete a program leading to the Ph.D. degree in art history at Harvard University in spring 1984

• 1977
• Art History
• Bangladesh to United States

to continue to study in a program leading to the Ph.D. degree in art history at Harvard University.

Quazi Moshoorul Huda

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 1983
• Theater
• Bangladesh to United States

Study American mime techniques as a special student at Pomona College in fall 1983.

Mukhlesur Rahman

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 1977
• Museum Studies
• Bangladesh to United States

to survey collections of South Asian art in the United States and Canada and to attend the annual meeting of the College Art Association held in Los Angeles in January 1977.

Ajmal Ahmad

Country / Region:
• Bangladesh

• 1976
• Architecture
• Bangladesh to United States

to complete a progran of study leading to the Master of City Planning degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University