Lindsey Harlan (Connecticut College)

Lindsey Harlan
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
5507 Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT  06320  USA

email: lbhar@connsoll.edu

Description of work:

I teach the religions of South Asia and do research in Rajasthan.
My publications include:

* The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Veneration 
(New York: Oxford University Press, in press)

* Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in 
Contemporary Narratives
(Berkeley: University of California Press)

* a volume Paul Courtright and I edited,
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Culture, and Religion 
(New York: Oxford University Press)

Recent activities include writing a book on hero cults (tentatively
entitled Lasting Impressions) and organizing with David Shulman the
"Conference on Narrative Framing" (Jerusalem: Academy of Sciences and
Humanities).