FELLOWSHIP AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS |
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FELLOWSHIP AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS |
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1995-6 American Institute of Indian Studies Short Term Grant, India. Four months research on the Karna Gollas, a Pastoral community of Andhra Pradesh, India.
1994-5 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Mini Grant, CSUEB.
1992-3 Fulbright (CIE) Faculty Research Abroad Award Grant. The Gollas, a Pastoral Communities of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka States, India
1990 Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, CSUEB.
1988-9 Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award. Department of Kannada, Mangalore University and Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, Telugu University, India.
1988-9 Research Design Consultant, Organizer and American Coordinator, International Workshop Series on the Folklore and Ethnography of India. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, India, and awarded to Telugu University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and the Regional Centre for Folk Performing Arts, Udupi, Karnataka.
1986 American Institute of Indian Studies, Faculty Research Fellowship (Short Term). Translating Performance: Exploring Various Means of Translation Tulu PaDdanas (Epics and Ballads) Based on a Systematic Study of Performance Contexts.
l978 Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Fellow. A Survey of Departments of Folklore in Southern India.
l975-l976 American Institute of Indian Studies, Faculty Research Fellowship. Spirit Possession and Meiumship form the Perspective of Tulu Oral Traditions.
l967-l968 American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Research Fellowship. Matrilineal Kinship of the Bant-Nadava Caste Complex, South Kanara, Karnataka, India.
Recent Professional Activities
Peter J. Claus (Ph.D. l970, Anthropology, Duke University)
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
1996-pres. Vice-President, American Institute of Indian Studies
1995- pres. Member, Advisor Committee, Encyclopedia of the Folklore of Karnataka
1995- pres. Member, Advisor Committee, Encyclopedia of Tamil Folklore
1994- pres. Member, Executive Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies Board of Trustees
1993- pres. Member, Executive Committee, American Resource Centre for Ethnomusicology