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Growth and Change — A Department Time-Line

1958 Indian Studies was established by a modest Rockefeller grant received by Murray Fowler, offering advanced degrees in Indian Studies and instituting the second departmental program to concentrate on South Asia in the U.S.
1960 South Asian Studies began offering B.A. and M.A. degrees, followed by the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, the first doctorate degree of Buddhist Studies offered in North America.
1966 Ph.D. degree in South Asian Languages & Literature added.
1976 Turkish Language and Literature introduced to the Department by Professor Sarah Atis.
1977 Indonesian Language and Literature transferred to the Department, previously taught out of the Department of East Asia.
1981 Thai Literature & Linguistics introduced to the Department by Professor Robert Bickner.
1998 Turkic Central Asian Languages & Literatures — Uzbek, Tatar, and Kazak — introduced to the Department by Professor Uli Schamiloglu, previously taught out of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
1999 Languages and Cultures of Asia (LCA) restructured to promote scholarship across boundaries and disciplines as represented in the Department for undergraduates and graduates — “From Turkey to the Philippines and Everything in Between.”
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Last updated November 5, 2004
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