Tulasi Srinivas

Tulasi Srinivas is a specialist on South Asia, specifically India. Her research concerns the cultural politics of religion and the processes of cultural globalization through an inter-disciplinary and comparative analysis of ideology, experience and subjectivity. Initially trained as an architect, Srinivas brings an interest in public space and cities to her analysis of cultural globalization. Between 1998 and 2000 she was the site director for India for a ten nation comparative study of cultural globalization undertaken jointly by the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University and the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. She has held several prestigious fellowships at Boston University (2001), Harvard University (2003) and most recently, The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University (2006). Prior to coming to Emerson Srinivas taught at Boston University, Wheaton College and Tufts University. She has published in Space and Culture, Food, Culture and Society, The International Journal of Sociology of the Family and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is currently working on a book that explores issues of cultural globalization and religion through the example of the transnational Sathya Sai religious movement.

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