Professor
      Wendy Doniger
University of Chicago Divinity School
      Historian (religion); Educator
      Area
                                Humanities and Arts
                            Specialty
                                Religious Studies
                            Elected
                                    1989
                    Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Doniger's research and teaching focus on translating, interpreting, and comparing elements of Hinduism through modern contexts of gender, sexuality, and identity. She is past president of the American 鶹ýAV of Religion (1984) and the Association for Asian Studies (1997). She was awarded the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for excellence in multi-cultural literature, non-fiction, for Splitting the Difference (2000).
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