Sandra Robinson
Frieda Wildy Riggs Chair in Religious Studies
BA, Wellesley College. PhD, University of Chicago. Special interest in South Asian cultures, religions, and literatures. Two Fulbright Awards for field research in India. Articles, papers, and poems appear in international venues; ethnographic photographs exhibited. Chair of the South Asia Council and member of the Board of Directors, Association for Asian Studies; administrative board of Harvard-Radcliffe College; senior fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University; delegate to Copenhagen UN summit on global poverty; group leader for the Experiment in International Living; national selection boards for institutional Fulbright grants. SLC, 1990–
Undergraduate discipline: Asian Studies
Courses taught in Asian Studies
2012-2013
- Body and Self in Asian Cultures
- India and Orientalism
- Pilgrimage and Tourism: South Asian Practices
- Sacrifice