Ved Patel

Visiting Assistant Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. Emory University
  • M.St. University of Oxford
  • M.A. University of Florida
  • B.A. University of California Irvine

Areas of Expertise

  • South Asian Religions
  • Religious Ethics
  • Lived Religion
  • Religion and Philanthropy

Background

My research takes an ethno-historical approach to studying religious ethical praxis, religious narrative, and category formation during colonial and postcolonial India, and my teaching specializations are in moral formation, theories of non-violence, and applied ethics in South Asian religious traditions.

At 51¹ÙÍø, I will teach courses on South Asian religions, lived Hinduism, religion and philanthropy, Indic conceptions of divinity, and Gandhian philosophy. I am currently working on multiple peer-reviewed publications for an edited volume by SUNY Press, the Journal of Cultural Anthropology, and the International Journal of Hindu Studies. I also serve as an editor for Eastern Religions in the journal Open Theology.