Faculty
Smita Lahiri
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- PhD, Cornell
- telephone: (617) 496-9647
- office: William James Hall 360
On leave 2007–2008
Smita Lahiri received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2002 in Sociocultural Anthropology with a concentration in Southeast Asian studies.
Her present research focuses on the relationship between colonialism, Christianity, historical memory, and nation-building in the Philippines. She is planning a new project on the politics of language in post-liberalization India, focusing upon the ideologies associated with English and Hindi, their relative prestige in various domains, and their combined use in everyday social practice.