While anthropologist Lalaie Ameeriar spends the academic year at a legendary scholarly citadel in Princeton, N.J., her colleague Sameer Pandya is preparing to depart for an actual citadel ­­— a centuries-old castle in Umbria in Italy.

The connecting thread: Both teach in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and both write about aspects of the South Asian diaspora in the West, work that has now won them prestigious fellowships in far-flung places.

Read more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017404/exploring-diaspora.