Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology
Baruch College / City University of New York
I am a cultural anthropologist whose ethnographically-based research focuses on the lived realities behind the increasingly politicized terrain of religious identity in contemporary India and the effects of economic liberalization on caste identity and everyday religious practices and lives.
Oxford University Press, 2027
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University of California Press, 2011
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Modern Sufis and the State
The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Edited by Kathryn Ewing and Rosemary Corbett
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Religious Journeys in India
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers
Edited by Andrea Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge
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The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia
Edited by Bryan Turner and Oscar Salemink
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Lines in Water
Religious Boundaries in South Asia
Edited by Eliza Kent and Tazim Kassam
View VolumeJanuary: "As We Love and Fear A Father: Shani, Devotional Religion, and Neoliberalism in Urban North India" published by Oxford University Press
September 19: Talk at Yale University as part of Rethinking Vernacular Hinduisms of South Asia and Beyond
October 28: Talk at University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of their 54th Annual Conference on South Asia
August: Elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
Department of Anthropology
Baruch College / City University of New York
carla dot bellamy at baruch dot cuny dot edu