Leela Prasad is an Indian historian based in the United States. A scholar of Indian history and the anthropology of ethics, she is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and is St. Purandar Das Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. She obtained her BA at Osmania University in 1986, her MAs at University of Hyderabad in 1988 and at Kansas State University in 1991, and her PhD in Folklore and Folklife at University of Pennsylvania in 1998; her doctoral dissertation was Scripture and strategy: narrative and the poetics of appropriate conduct in Śṛingeri, South India. In 1999, she started working at Duke University as Assistant Professor of Religion at the Department of Religious Studies, and he was an Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor from 2002 to 2003. She became an associate professor in 2007, and In 2020, she became a full professor. She also held an associate professorship at Duke's Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from 2013 to 2015. In 2024, she moved from Duke to the Brown University Department of Religious Studies. More information...
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