Anne Feldhaus

Anne Feldhaus is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her work combines philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of Maharashtra, the Marathi-language region of western India. Her areas of special interest are folk and popular Hindu traditions, medieval bhakti, and religious geography.

Professor Feldhaus's publications include Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in Maharashtra, Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra, and several books on Old Marathi literature. With S.G. Tulpule, she co-edited A Dictionary of Old Marathi.

She has been a Guggenheim fellow, an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a senior research fellow for the American Institute of Indian Studies, and has received several fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Pennsylvania.