Professor Kirin Narayan
Congratulations to Professor Kirin Narayan of the Department of Anthropology, who was appointed to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Standing Committee responsible for the final selection of Guggenheim fellows each year.
Narayan was also appointed to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Educational Advisory Board.
Narayan has engaged in long-term fieldwork on oral traditions in South Asia, and has researched the South Asian diaspora, and the role of narratives in the transmission of identity.
She is also working on making explicit the craft of ethnographic writing in dialogue with other narrative genres.