VEENA DAS, Ph.D.

Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She has researched extensively on collective violence, everyday life and social suffering. Currently she is engaged in a longitudinal study on poverty and urban health in India. Her recent books include Critical Events: An anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, 1995 and three volumes on the themes of social suffering, violence and subjectivity and remaking everyday life after traumatic violence of which she is a co-editor. She taught in the University of Delhi for thirty-three years. She is on the executive board of the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Development and Democracy in Delhi and the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. She is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago.