Jyoti Puri, Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies and South Asian Religions Colorado Scholar, presented on “Death in Transit: Cremation, Spectacle, and Looking Off-Center.”
Research project: Migrant Rites: Death, Gender and Religion in the South Asian Diaspora
Research project: Violent Death and Devotion—Heroic Sacrifice and Gender in India
Research project: Sovereigns of Sex—The State, Islam, Family, and Transgender Embodiment in Contemporary Turkey
Their research spans history, religions, and academic fields, and next year, five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects.
Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2019–20 academic year.
Research project: Humanizing Shariah—A Memoir of the Human Face of a Legal Practice
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author and activist, has written a book called How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick, focusing on the experiences of friends dealing with serious illness.