Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Wins Heyman Prize

The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly publications or research by a ladder faculty member in the humanities who is untenured at the time that the work is completed or published.   

Mukhopadhyay was awarded the Heyman prize in recognition of her insightful book, Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. Mukhopadhyay is a scholar of the literary history of South Asia. In Required Reading, Mukhopadhyay combs through the archives of colonial South Asia to examine commonplace writing such as manuals, magazines, and almanacs to challenge our ideas of what “reading” is.  

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