Research

• Afro-Asian Archives: Preserving and Digitizing South Asian-language Sources for Indian Ocean African History
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The project’s goals are twofold: firstly, in collaboration with the Zanzibar National Archives, to catalogue, preserve, and digitize this collection; secondly, to promote knowledge about and access to these and other neglected South-Asian language sources for African history through an online database and informational website.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hollian Wint
  (Updated: May 26 2022)

• The Impossibility of Indian Classical Dance
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Dr. Banerji examines the aesthetic and political formation of the “Indian Classical Dance” (ICD) category and situates its discursive development and contested career over the past century.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Anurima Banerji
  (Updated: Aug 10 2022)

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ananya Roy
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Video, Self-Representation, and Community Mobilization in Rural India
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  Study how the use of a set of cameras to create and share experiences, concerns, stories, and assets can help mobilize a mostly non-literate community that is politically and economically disenfranchised. Explore the issue of how policymakers and local communities may wish to communicate, but often understand the world differently.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ramesh Srinivasan
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• South Asian Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The South Asian Lab highlights the archaeology of South Asia– the area encompassed by the modern-day countries of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Monica L. Smith
  (Updated: May 02 2023)

• Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of materials from a variety of musical and oral traditions such as ballads, oral epics, and storytelling by hereditary musician castes created by some of India's most marginalized communities in the desert region of Western Rajasthan.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Regional Film History in Post-Independence India: Celluloid Film from the Shabistan Film Archive
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of a collection of celluloid film reels dating from the 20th century. It includes narrative cinema from regional film industries, documentary reels and home movies, along with less well represented matters such as film trailers, commercials and advertisements.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Notes, Letters, Diaries, Posters and Pamphlets: Narrating Ideas of Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of an inventory of written materials related to indigeneity in Jharkhand, India, since 1900. The materials, written in English, Hindi, Bengali, and in tribal languages such as Kurukh, Nagri and Mundari, include works documenting politics and culture across Jharkhand.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Visual Histories of Northeast India
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the surveying, inventory, copyright and permission determination of two visual materials collections from the region of northeast India. Northeast India remains home to many indigenous communities and has been targeted by India's current political environment.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 23 2023)

• The Kashmir Valley Archive
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the presrevation of the Kashmir Valley Archive. It is a visual history project examining the photographic history of the Kashmir Valley. The project consists of a diverse collection of rare photographs and videos of the region.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Rare Negatives and Slides at the Center for Art and Archaeology of the American Institute of Indian Studies
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of a select group of black & white film negatives and color slides from AIIS archives. The negatives were created by field experts and professional photographers during research surveys between 1966 and 1990.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 27 2023)

• Archives of Minority Pasts: Mapping Religion and Politics in Modern Bengal
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of books and periodicals associated with Bengali Muslim intellectuals from the collection of Emdadul Haq Noor, a noted publisher and editor. The collection documents cultural and religious writing from political minorities of British Bengal and post-colonial West Bengal (India).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Visual History of the Tamil Film Industry through a Photographic Collection of R.N. Nagaraja Rao
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the surveying and documentation of Mr. R.N. Nagaraja Rao’s collection, preparing the material for future digitization. He was a well-known still-photographer of the film industry in South India, particularly engaged in Tamil cinema and photographed hundreds of films during his career.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Archiving Tamil Fish Workers in Print
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the collection and documentation of magazines and booklets published since the 1960s representing the history of fishing communities in Tamil Nadu. The collection serves to trace the history, community life, occupational experiences and traditional knowledge from fisher perspectives.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Ethnomusicology Archive: Photographic Collection
  UCLA Library
  This Ethnomusicology Archive Photographic Collection represents a selection of images from the UCLA Ethnomusicology's Archive's large photo collection.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lisa McAulay
  (Updated: Jan 22 2024)

• Hamilton Studios, Bombay: the first twenty years after partition
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of approximately 20,000 assets from the Hamilton Studios in Bombay, which houses photographic prints, notes, letters, and invoices that tell the story of the Indians who were affected by the Partition of India in 1947 and the following years.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Sep 16 2024)

• Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the Aravind Eye Care System
  School of Medicine
  Since 2013, third-year residents with the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology have had the opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking eye care program at the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, India. During the four-week elective, residents learn firsthand how the organization's innovative structure provides high-quality eye care in the country.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Stacy Pineles
  (Updated: Sep 24 2024)

Education/Training

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) - GE India
  School of Medicine
  This is a collaborative effort between ACOG and GE to train residents and new providers in the basics of obstetric and gynecology ultrasound.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Aparna Sridhar

• UCLA-NUS Executive MBA
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  This truly international program was designed by two top schools — UCLA Anderson and NUS Business School — to turn promising managers into global business leaders. Your learning experience will traverse the most important markets: the United States, Singapore, China and India. You will earn two world-class MBA degrees.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  UCLA Anderson School of Management

• Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the Aravind Eye Care System
  School of Medicine
  Since 2013, third-year residents with the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology have had the opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking eye care program at the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, India. During the four-week elective, residents learn firsthand how the organization's innovative structure provides high-quality eye care in the country.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Stacy Pineles

• UCLA PGPX – Post Graduate Program In Management for Executives
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  The UCLA Post Graduate Program in Management for Executives (UCLA PGPX) is an extensive general management program (offered by UCLA Anderson School of Management) focused on applied learning of advanced management concepts for senior executives and business owners.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sanjay Sood

• Music of India Ensemble
  UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  The Indian Music Ensembles focus on the performance of Indian classical music on the sitar and tabla. These are group classes where students begin learning the basic techniques of sitar while learning aspects of ragas, or music pieces. Ragas are melodies that unfold and develop, imparting a particular mood.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Rahul Neuman

Service

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Ananya Roy

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

• Video, Self-Representation, and Community Mobilization in Rural India
  Research
  Study how the use of a set of cameras to create and share experiences, concerns, stories, and assets can help mobilize a mostly non-literate community that is politically and economically disenfranchised. Explore the issue of how policymakers and local communities may wish to communicate, but often understand the world differently.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ramesh Srinivasan
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Humanities

• The Impossibility of Indian Classical Dance
  Research|
  Dr. Banerji examines the aesthetic and political formation of the “Indian Classical Dance” (ICD) category and situates its discursive development and contested career over the past century.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Anurima Banerji
  (Updated: Aug 10 2022)

John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management

• UCLA-NUS Executive MBA
  Education
  This truly international program was designed by two top schools — UCLA Anderson and NUS Business School — to turn promising managers into global business leaders. Your learning experience will traverse the most important markets: the United States, Singapore, China and India. You will earn two world-class MBA degrees.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			UCLA Anderson School of Management
  (Updated: Jan 05 2024)

• UCLA PGPX – Post Graduate Program In Management for Executives
  Education
  The UCLA Post Graduate Program in Management for Executives (UCLA PGPX) is an extensive general management program (offered by UCLA Anderson School of Management) focused on applied learning of advanced management concepts for senior executives and business owners.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sanjay Sood
  (Updated: Dec 09 2024)

School of Medicine

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) - GE India
  Education|
  This is a collaborative effort between ACOG and GE to train residents and new providers in the basics of obstetric and gynecology ultrasound.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Aparna Sridhar
  (Updated: May 19 2023)

• Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the Aravind Eye Care System
  Research| Education|
  Since 2013, third-year residents with the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology have had the opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking eye care program at the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, India. During the four-week elective, residents learn firsthand how the organization's innovative structure provides high-quality eye care in the country.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Stacy Pineles
  (Updated: Sep 24 2024)

Luskin School of Public Affairs

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Research, Service
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ananya Roy
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

• Afro-Asian Archives: Preserving and Digitizing South Asian-language Sources for Indian Ocean African History
  Research
  The project’s goals are twofold: firstly, in collaboration with the Zanzibar National Archives, to catalogue, preserve, and digitize this collection; secondly, to promote knowledge about and access to these and other neglected South-Asian language sources for African history through an online database and informational website.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hollian Wint
  (Updated: May 26 2022)

• South Asian Lab
  Research
  The South Asian Lab highlights the archaeology of South Asia– the area encompassed by the modern-day countries of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Monica L. Smith
  (Updated: May 02 2023)

UCLA International Education Office

• New Delhi Summer
  EducationAbroadProgram
  This summer program brings Indian and international students together to explore the politics, economics, history and sociology of India. Summer in New Delhi is a photographer’s dream as the boulevards around India Gate come to life.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Robert Rodriguez
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

UCLA Library

• Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of materials from a variety of musical and oral traditions such as ballads, oral epics, and storytelling by hereditary musician castes created by some of India's most marginalized communities in the desert region of Western Rajasthan.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Regional Film History in Post-Independence India: Celluloid Film from the Shabistan Film Archive
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of a collection of celluloid film reels dating from the 20th century. It includes narrative cinema from regional film industries, documentary reels and home movies, along with less well represented matters such as film trailers, commercials and advertisements.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Notes, Letters, Diaries, Posters and Pamphlets: Narrating Ideas of Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of an inventory of written materials related to indigeneity in Jharkhand, India, since 1900. The materials, written in English, Hindi, Bengali, and in tribal languages such as Kurukh, Nagri and Mundari, include works documenting politics and culture across Jharkhand.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Visual Histories of Northeast India
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the surveying, inventory, copyright and permission determination of two visual materials collections from the region of northeast India. Northeast India remains home to many indigenous communities and has been targeted by India's current political environment.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 23 2023)

• The Kashmir Valley Archive
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the presrevation of the Kashmir Valley Archive. It is a visual history project examining the photographic history of the Kashmir Valley. The project consists of a diverse collection of rare photographs and videos of the region.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Rare Negatives and Slides at the Center for Art and Archaeology of the American Institute of Indian Studies
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of a select group of black & white film negatives and color slides from AIIS archives. The negatives were created by field experts and professional photographers during research surveys between 1966 and 1990.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 27 2023)

• Archives of Minority Pasts: Mapping Religion and Politics in Modern Bengal
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of books and periodicals associated with Bengali Muslim intellectuals from the collection of Emdadul Haq Noor, a noted publisher and editor. The collection documents cultural and religious writing from political minorities of British Bengal and post-colonial West Bengal (India).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Visual History of the Tamil Film Industry through a Photographic Collection of R.N. Nagaraja Rao
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the surveying and documentation of Mr. R.N. Nagaraja Rao’s collection, preparing the material for future digitization. He was a well-known still-photographer of the film industry in South India, particularly engaged in Tamil cinema and photographed hundreds of films during his career.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Archiving Tamil Fish Workers in Print
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the collection and documentation of magazines and booklets published since the 1960s representing the history of fishing communities in Tamil Nadu. The collection serves to trace the history, community life, occupational experiences and traditional knowledge from fisher perspectives.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Ethnomusicology Archive: Photographic Collection
  Research|
  This Ethnomusicology Archive Photographic Collection represents a selection of images from the UCLA Ethnomusicology's Archive's large photo collection.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lisa McAulay
  (Updated: Jan 22 2024)

• Hamilton Studios, Bombay: the first twenty years after partition
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of approximately 20,000 assets from the Hamilton Studios in Bombay, which houses photographic prints, notes, letters, and invoices that tell the story of the Indians who were affected by the Partition of India in 1947 and the following years.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Sep 16 2024)

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

• Music of India Ensemble
  Education
  The Indian Music Ensembles focus on the performance of Indian classical music on the sitar and tabla. These are group classes where students begin learning the basic techniques of sitar while learning aspects of ragas, or music pieces. Ragas are melodies that unfold and develop, imparting a particular mood.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rahul Neuman
  (Updated: Dec 17 2024)