Anne Feldhaus

Anne Feldhaus (Phelḍahāusa, Âna; born 1949) is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University and became President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2018. Her field of specialty is Maharashtra, India, combining philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of Maharashtra, the Marathi-language region of western India.[1][2]

Academic career

After graduating from Manhattanville College in 1971, she earned her Doctor's degree in Religious Thought at University of Pennsylvania in 1976. She joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1981, and became full professor in 1988. Among her awards and honors are Fulbright-Hays Research Award (1993–1994)[3](1987–1989); Social Science Research Council Research Award (1995); John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2002–2003);[4] National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research (2007–2008).[1]

Selected publications
  • Feldhaus, Anne (n.d.), On My Way of Living in India, University of Pennsylvania Department of History of Art
  • Feldhaus, Anne (1976). The Mahanubhava Sutrapatha (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
  • —— (1985). The Deeds of God in Rddhipur. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • ——; Tulapule, Sã Go (1992). In the Absence of God : The Early Years of an Indian Sect : A Translation of Smrtisthal, with an Introduction. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824813352.
  • —— (1995). Water and Womanhood : Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • —— (1996). Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-585-04283-1.
  • —— (2014). Say to the Sun, "Don't Rise," and to the Moon, "Don't Set"; : Two Oral Narratives from the Countryside of Maharashtra. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • —— (2006). Connected Places : Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-8134-9.
  • ——; Vora, Rajendra (2006). Region, Culture, and Politics in India. Delhi; New Delhi: Manohar ; Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books. ISBN 978-81-7304-664-3.
  • ——; Bhagavan, Manu Belur (2010). Speaking Truth to Power : Religion, Caste and the Subaltern Question in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-806349-0.

References
  1. Curriculum Vitae
  2. Anne Feldhaus
  3. Fulbright Scholar Program 1993–94 Directory of American Fulbright Scholars
  4. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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