Anne Feldhaus (Phelḍahāusa, Âna; born 1949) is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus Professor, at Arizona State University. Her field of specialty is Maharashtra, India, combining philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of Maharashtra, the Marathi-language region of western India.[ Anne Feldhaus]
Honors and awards
Among her awards and honors are
Fulbright-Hays Research Award (1993–1994)
[ Fulbright Scholar Program 1993–94 Directory of American Fulbright Scholars](1987–1989); Social Science Research Council Research Award (1995); John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2002–2003);
[ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation] National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research (2007–2008).
[ Curriculum Vitae]
She was president of the Association for Asian Studies 2018- 2019.[American Academy of Arts & Sciences New Members Elected in 2022]
Academic career
She first went to India as an undergraduate in 1970, lived with a Brahman family, and later recalled that her "knowledge of Indian culture was confined to translations of the Bhagavad Gita (which I found immoral) and some Upanishads (which I found incomprehensible)." She also recalled, however, that her "Roman Catholic childhood and Sacred Heart education had prepared me quite well to appreciate an all-encompassing ritualization of life."
After graduating from Manhattanville College in 1971, she earned her Doctor's degree in Religious Thought at University of Pennsylvania in 1976. She joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1981, and became full professor there in 1988.
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