April 19, 2016
PhD Candidate Ankur Desai Awarded 2016-2017 Presidential Fellowship
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PhD Candidate Ankur Desai has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship for the 2016-17 academic year in order to complete work on his dissertation entitled "Re-Crafting the Sacred: Negotiating Tradition in Contemporary Swaminarayan Temple Architecture," which is being written under the direction of Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Susan Huntington.