Personal Details
Name: Mehta, Ved (Parkash)
Date of birth: March 21, 1934
Nationality: Naturalized citizen of USA
Marital status: Married,
two children
Address: 139 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10021
Education
Arkansas School for the Blind (1949-52)
Pomona College (1952-56)
Balliol College, Oxford (1956-59)
Harvard University (1959-61)
Degrees
B.A. Pomona, 1956;
B.A. (The Honours School of Modern History), Oxford, 1959;
M.A. Harvard, 1961.
Honorary Degrees
Honorary D. Litt.: Pomona, 1972; Bard, 1982; Williams, 1986;
Bowdoin, 1995.
Honorary D. Univ., Stirling (Scotland), 1988.
Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 1999.
Appointments
Staff writer, The New Yorker, 1961-94.
Visiting Scholar, Case Western Reserve, 1974.
Writer and narrator of television documentary film, "Chachaji,
My Poor Relation," PBS, 1978; BBC, 1980 (film received DuPont
Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, 1977-78).
Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College, 1985, 1986.
Noble Foundation Visiting Professor of Art and Cultural History,
Sarah Lawrence College, 1988.
Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities, 1988-92.
Visiting Fellow (Literature), Balliol College, Oxford, 1988-89.
Visiting Professor of English, New York University, 1989-90.
Rosenkranz Chair in Writing, 1990-93, Lecturer in History, 1990,
1991, 1992, and Lecturer in English, 1991-93, Yale University;
Associate Fellow, 1988-, Residential Fellow, 1990-93, Berkeley
College (a constituent of Yale College).
Arnold Bernhard Visiting Professor of English and History, Williams
College, 1994.
Randolph Visiting Distinguished Professor of English and History,
Vassar College, 1994-96.
Senior Fellow, Freedom Forum, Media Studies Center and Visiting
Scholar, Columbia University, 1996-97.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
1997-98.
Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa, 1955.
Hazen Fellow, 1956-59.
Harvard Prize Fellow, 1959-60, Residential Fellow, Eliot House,
1959-61.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1971-72, 1977-78.
Ford Foundation Travel and Study Grantee, 1971-76; Public Policy
Grantee, 1979-82.
MacArthur Prize Fellow, 1982-87.
Association of Indians in America Award, 1978.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 1979-.
Member, Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary, 1982.
Signet medal (Harvard), 1983.
Distinguished Service Award, Asian/Pacific American Library Association,
1986.
New York City Mayor’s Liberty Medal, 1986.
Centenary Barrows Award, Pomona College, 1987.
New York Public Library Literary Lion Medal, 1990, and Literary
Lion Centennial Medal, 1996.
New York State Asian-American Heritage Month Award, 1991.
South Asian Literary Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004.
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