Tulasi Srinivas

Tulasi Srinivas is a specialist on South Asia, specifically India.Her research concerns the cultural politics of religion and the processes of globalization. Srinivas’s work engages cross-disciplinary and comparative analysis of ideology, experience and subjectivity, and her research sits at the intersection of urban anthropology, cultural anthropology, consumption studies and religious studies. Initially trained as an architect, Srinivas brings an interest in space and cities to her analysis of culture and religion. Between 1998 and 1999 she was the site director for India of a ten nation study on cultural globalization undertaken by the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University, and the Harvard Academy of International and Area studies, funded by the Pew foundation and the Smith Richardson foundation. She has held several prestigious fellowships including the Earhart women fellowship at Boston University (1997), a teaching fellowship at Boston University (2001), a senior post doctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University (2002) and, most recently, as a fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University (2006-2007). Prior to coming to Emerson she has taught at Wheaton College, Boston University and Tufts University. She has published in Space and Culture, The International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Food, Culture and Society, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and The Journal of Social and Economic Development.