Christian Lee Novetzke

I am a professor in the South Asia Program, the Comparative Religion Program, and the International Studies Program at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. I am also the Director for the Center for Global Studies and the Associate Director of the Jackson School. I teach and write about religion, history, and culture in South Asia, as well as theoretical issues in the study of religion in general and its intersection with historiography. I work with Marathi and Hindi materials, including textual, ethnographic, and visual/filmic sources. I specialize in the study of Maharashtra from the second millennium CE to the present, ranging from the medieval period, through the colonial and modern periods, to the postcolonial era. My first book, Religion and Public Memory (Columbia University Press 2008) won the American Academy of Religion's award "The Best First Book in the History of Religions" in 2009. The book has been published in India under the title History, Bhakti, and Public Memory by Permanent Black. My second book, co-authored with Andrew Rotman and William Elison, is on the Bollywood classic Amar Akbar Anthony and was published by Harvard University Press in 2016, in the US, Europe, and India. My third book is called The Quotidian Revolution and examines the politics of vernacularization in 13th Century Maharashtra and the creation of the public sphere in India. This book was published by Columbia University Press in 2016 in the US and Europe, and by Permanent Black in India.