Participant
Teena Purohit completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Religion at Columbia University in 2007. She currently teaches in the Religious Studies Program at UCI. Her research focuses on the history of Islam in South Asia, bhakti poetry of the medieval and early modern periods, and the formation of religious identities in the colonial period. She is currently working on her book manuscript titled Constituting Muslim Identity: Ismaili Sectarianism in Colonial India.
contact: tup1@columbia.edu