[INDOLOGY] UC Davis Jain Prizes Announcement

[Archana Venkatesan]

Dear Colleagues,

It is a pleasure to announce the winners of the inaugural UC Davis
dissertation and graduate essay prizes in Jain Studies. The dissertation
prize comes with a $1500.00 cash prize and a citation. The winner of the
graduate essay prize receives a cash prize of $750.00 and a citation.
Congratulations to both the winners.

Best,
Lynna Dhanani
Archana Venkatesan

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*The Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies
Best Dissertation Prize *

Winner: *Eric Gurevitch*, University of Chicago for his dissertation,
"Everyday Sciences in Southwest India"

*The** Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Best Graduate
Essay Prize *

Winner: *Eric Villalobos*, for his essay, "The Benefits of Bending the
Rules: the Social Functions of *Yati*s in Mūrtipūjaka Śvetāmbara Jainism (c.
18th century-Present)"
Eric has just completed his MA from SOAS and will embark on his PhD at
Emory.

-- 
*"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an
incarnation."*  Jorge Luis Borges

Archana Venkatesan <https://archana.faculty.ucdavis.edu/> (
archana.faculty.ucdavis.edu)
Interim Director of the Davis Humanities Institute
<https://dhi.ucdavis.edu/>
Project Director: The Kampan Translation Project
<https://kampanproject.ucdavis.edu/>
*Professor, Religious Studies and Comparative Literature*
Phone: 530-754-2821 (Office)
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