Thursday, March 7, 2013

SHALIN JAIN AWARDED FELLOWSHIP TO PURSUE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AT CLAREMONT LINCOLN UNIVERSIY

SHALIN  JAIN  AWARDED  FELLOWSHIP TO  PURSUE ENVIRONMENTAL
RESEARCH AT CLAREMONT LINCOLN UNIVERSIY

CLAREMONT, CA—Dr. Shalin Jain, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delhi (India), has been  awarded  the prestigious Raman  Fellowship  for  Post Doctoral Research for Indian Scholars in the United States by the University Grants Commission  (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government  of India) to  spend  six months as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Jain Studies at Claremont Lincoln University in the fall of 2013. Dr. Jain specializes in  Medieval  Jain  history,  with  special focus  on ecology and the environment,  and  will  pursue research on Contemporary
Environmental Concerns and Medieval Religious Communities during his time at Claremont Lincoln. 

The Jain Studies program was launched a year and a half ago in the fall of 2011 with the opening of the new University, and has since become one of the most active graduate- level  Jain Studies  programs  in  North  America.  Dr.  Jain  will be the first  visiting Post Doctoral Fellow in Jain Studies to come to Claremont Lincoln since the inception of the program.

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