Christian Lee Novetzke is an associate 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. Professor Novetzke teaches and writes 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. He works in Marathi and Hindi materials, including textual, ethnographic, and visual/filmic sources. Professor Novetzke specializes in the study of Maharashtra over the second millennium CE to the present. His recent 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.

Graduate Seminars for Autumn 2012:

JSISA 508

Interdisciplinary Studies of South Asia I: The History and Practice of South Asia Studies

JSISB 501

Theories for the Study of Religion

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