Research

The University of Houston-Clear Lake was my full-time professional home from 2001-2010, both demanding and supporting much of the research I produced in that period. Now, I continue to teach UHCL students online, in addition to serving as the University of Houston System’s in-country liaison here in India. [What do I teach? Contemporary Cultural Anthropology; Gender, Culture, Power, Women of Color, Political Economy, Cultures of Asia, Food and Culture...]

My research falls roughly into two categories:

On ethnicity, social movements, and public hinduness:

The book that was finally born | ”The Ethnicity of Caste” [Anthropological Quarterly, 2005 and reprinted in Greenough and Natrajan, ed. Against Stigma, 2009] | Public Representation of a Religion Called Hinduism [which, after two years of conferences and collaborations, has produced an edited volume entitled Public Hinduisms, ed. John Zavos, Pralay Kanungo, Deepa S. Reddy, Maya Warrier, and Raymond B. Williams, forthcoming with Sage Publishers]  | “Temple Publics” [co-authored with John Zavos; introduction to a special issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies]  | and three essays on “Hindutva”: “Formative Assertions,” “Capturing Hindutva,” and “Hinduva as Praxis” [published in Religion Compass, 2011]

On genetic research, blood, and biopolitics:

The ELSI-HapMap Project | ”Good Gifts for the Common good” [PDF][PubMed] | “Caught in Collaboration” [PDF][PubMed]

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