Awardee Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Graduate Student, Princeton University) published two articles last year that explore the travel of ideas between the Middle East and South Asia with a special focus on Shi'ite thought (see member publications section). Additionally, his paper “It's not the Economy: Doctrines, Politics and the Transnational in Pakistan's Sunnī-Shīʿī Sectarianism” was selected for one of three Research Student Awards during the 23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies last July in Zurich/Switzerland. After finishing his PhD at Princeton this coming summer, Simon plans to continue working on the interconnectedness of South Asia and the Middle East as a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge (UK).