Curriculum Vitae
Andrea Marion Pinkney
School of Religious Studies
McGill University
Contact: [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor in South Asian Religions
McGill University–School of Religious Studies
2016–present
Montréal, Canada
Assistant Professor in South Asian Religions
McGill University–Faculty of Religious Studies
2013–2016
Montréal, Canada
Assistant Professor in Religion in South Asia
National University of Singapore–South Asian Studies Programme
Hindi-Urdu Teaching Fellow
Columbia University–Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Co-Academic Director
School for International Training–North India Arts and Culture Program
Faculty Instructor in Hindi
Antioch College–Buddhist Studies in India Program
2008–2013
Singapore
2005–2006
New York, USA
Fall 2004
Jaipur, India
Fall 2003
Bodhgaya, India
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Columbia University, Department of Religion
Dissertation Title: The Sacred Share: Prasāda in South Asia
Advanced Diploma in Hindi
Banaras Hindu University
1999–2008
New York, USA
1995–1998
Varanasi, India
M.A., University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Department of Religion
Thesis Title: Image and Pilgrimage: Self-Identity in Sikhism
1994–1995, 1998
Honolulu, USA
B.A., McGill University, Faculties of Religious Studies and Arts
Joint Honours in Asian Religions and Communication and Theory
Montréal, Canada
1989–1993
LANGUAGES
Hindi–Urdu: fluent
Sanskrit: advanced translation
Japanese, French: intermediate
Curriculum Vitae: A. M. PINKNEY
PRINCIPAL PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
The Sacred Share: Prasāda and the Hindu Gods
This work offers a comprehensive portrait of prasāda in Hindu South Asia, in ethnographic,
philological, and popular perspectives (under advance contract, Harvard University Press).
‘Pocketing the Himalayas: Sacred Souvenirs of the 4-Dhām Pilgrimage’ (Chapter Seven) in
Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya, edited by Megan Adamson Sijapati and Jessica
Vantine Birkenholtz (in press, December 2015).
URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415723398/
‘Revealing the Vedas in ‘Hinduism’: Foundations and Issues of Interpretation in South Asian
Hindu Traditions’ (Chapter Three) in Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia, edited
by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink (September 2014), pgs. 30-46.
URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635035/
‘Looking West to India: Asian education, intra-Asian renaissance, and the Nalanda revival’,
Modern Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1 (01 July 2014), pgs. 111-149.
URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A92CvVBa
‘An Ever-Present History in the Land of the Gods: Modern Māhātmya Writing on Uttarakhand’
International Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 17, Issue 3: pgs. 229-260, 12/2013.
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11407-014-9142-1
‘Reorienting the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in Contemporary India’, coauthored with Andrea Acri. International Journal of Hindu Studies, guest edited by
Andrea Marion Pinkney and Andrea Acri, Volume 17, Issue 3: pgs. 221-228, 12/2013.
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11407-014-9143-0
‘Prasāda, the Gracious Gift, in Contemporary and Classical South Asia’, Journal of the
American Academy of Religion Volume 81, Issue 3 (September 2013), pgs. 734-756.
URL: http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/content/81/3/734.short
CO-AUTHORED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“De-Orienting Religious Studies: Four Genealogies of the Studies of Religions in Modern
Asia”, co-authored with John Whalen-Bridge and Robbie B. H. Goh, Numen, Volume
62, Issue 1 (January 2015), pgs. 1–6.
URL: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/1568527612341353
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Curriculum Vitae: A. M. PINKNEY
“Reorienting the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in Contemporary India,” coauthored with Andrea Acri. International Journal of Hindu Studies, guest edited by
Andrea Marion Pinkney and Andrea Acri, Volume 17, Issue 3: pgs. 221–228, 12/2013.
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11407-014-9143-0
“Shirdi in Transition: Guru-Devotion, Urbanisation, and Regional Pluralism in India,” second
co-author with Kiran A. Shinde, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 36,
Issue 4 (June 2013), pgs. 554–570.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/xpRFjrgq6RU8iz2hVP3W/full#.Ujx_vGTF2b8
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“The Girmitiyas’ Journey in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies,” second co-author with Rajesh
Rai, in History, Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction, edited by Chitra
Sankaran. Albany: State University of New York Press (April 2012), 65–78.
URL: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5323-history-narrative-and-testimony.aspx
OTHER SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Prasad,” Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. (Leiden: Brill),
October 2013. Volume V, pgs. 103–111.
URL: http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-encyclopedia-of-hinduism
The Sacred Share: Prasada in South Asia. ProQuest-UMI Publishing. Ph.D. Dissertation,
Columbia University, 2008, 414 pps.
URL: https://www.academia.edu/1876986/The_Sacred_Share_Prasada_in_South_Asia_
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“Almsgiving/Dāna,” “Dīvālī,” “Kāma,” “Kāmasūtra,” “Pāṇini,” “Prasāda,” “Rati,”
“Śivarātri,” and “Yamunā,” in The Encyclopedia of Hinduism, edited by Denise Cush,
Catherine A. Robinson, and Michael York (London: Routledge), December 2006.
Spark Chart: World Religion, co-authored with Isaac Souweine and Matt Blanchard. New York:
Spark Publishing, Barnes & Noble, 2005.
RECENT PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Invited presentation: “21st-Century Tang: Locating a Buddhist Ecumene at Singapore's Buddha
Tooth Relic Temple and Museum,” John E. Sawyer Capstone Seminar on “Religious
Materiality in the Indian Ocean World, 1300-1800,” Indian Ocean World Centre,
University of Toronto, April 2016.
URL: http://iow.religion.utoronto.ca/seminar-dates-times-and-locations/
“Trigonometry, Cartography, and Pilgrimage: Imperial Infrastructure and the Post-Colonial
Transformation of Uttarakhand’s 4-Dhām Network (1800-2000),” presented at the
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, USA, October 2015.
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Invited presentation: “Driving to the Gods: Roads, Infrastructure and Accessibility in
Uttarakhand Pilgrims’ Literature (Māhātmyas),” South Asia Conference of the Pacific
Northwest (SACPAN), University of Washington–University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada, March 2015.
URL: http://www.asia.ubc.ca/2015/02/13/sacpan-2015-march-6-7-2015/
“How a Pilgrimage Changes a Region: Reading Māhātmya Writing on Uttarakhand,” presented
at the Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, USA, October 2013.
“A Chinatown in Need of Heritage? Religious Tourism at Singapore's Buddha Tooth Relic
Temple,” paper presenter, Conference on Tourism and the Shifting Values of Heritage,
organized by the University of Birmingham, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2013.
“A Very Present History in the Land of the Gods: Modern Māhātmya Writing on Uttarakhand,”
presented at Replaying the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in India and
Bali, Asia Research Institute–National University of Singapore, Singapore, January
2013.
“How New is the New Nalanda? The Brokering of a ‘Modern’ and ‘Asian’ University,”
presented at Comparative Studies on Asia: Colonialism and Modernity, Southeast Asian
Studies Department, National University of Singapore–Kanagawa University,
Singapore, November 2011.
“Pocketing the Himalayas: Prasāda as Sacred Souvenir at the 4-Dhām Pilgrimage,” presented
at the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion–
International Association for the Historical Study of Religion Annual Conference,
Thimphu, Bhutan, July 2011.
“Fare for all: Prasāda as Sacred Hindu Food,” presented at the Association of Asian Studies
Annual Meeting, Honolulu, USA, 2011.
“Himalayan Magnetism at the 4-Dhām Pilgrimage,” presented at the Workshop on Religious
Travels in India, National University of Singapore–Faculty of Arts & Social Science,
Singapore, February 2011.
ONLINE
Publications: https://mcgill.academia.edu/AndreaMarionPinkney
Homepage: http://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/people/teaching-staff/professors/andrea-marion-pinkney
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