Richard H. Davis
Professor of Religion; Director of the Religion Program

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Asian Studies, Religion, Theology

Biography:
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Assistant and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University (1987–97). Publications: Lives of Indian Images (1997; winner of 1999 A. K. Coomaraswamy Prize); Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva in Medieval India (1991). Edited volumes: Images, Miracles, and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions (1998); Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India (2006). Articles in History and Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Oriental Research, History of Religions, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Education about Asia, other journals. Fellowships include Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities. (1997– ) Professor of Religion.