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Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Religious Studies
Ph.D. 2005 (Religious Studies), University of California at Santa Barbara; M.A. 1998 (Religious Studies), University of Colorado at Boulder; B.A. 1995 (Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, Geography), University of California at Santa Barbara.
Research Interests: South Asian religions; critical theories of religion; religion and postcoloniality; secularism; visual culture.
Affiliations: American Academy of Religion; American Anthropological Association; American Historical Association.
Fellowships/Honors: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Media, Religion, and Culture, Lilly Endowment, 2004; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Predoctoral Fellowship, 2004; University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2003; Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2003; Muktabodha Indological Institute Fellowship, 2003; UCSB Prospectus Writing Fellowship, 2002; UCSB Humanities/Social Science Research Grant, 2002; Rowny Fellowship 2000-2002.
Selected Works:
"Theologies of visibility and evidentiary authority in eastern Himachal Pradesh," Contemporary South Asia 15(1). 2006: 3-14.
"Stately (Dis)Placement: Narrative, Place, and Postcoloniality," epoché, Spring, 2006.
"Hindu Approaches to Death," in Death and Religion in Contemporary Societies, ed. Kathleen Garces-Foley, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
"The Academic Study of Religion and The Strip" Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, V. 27 N.1.
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