PhD Candidate
Fields of Study
- Anthropology of Religion
- Religion, Culture & Politics
- South Asian Religions
Areas of Interest
- Contemporary Hindu thought and practice
- Caste
- Work and Labour
- Gender
- Modern and Contemporary South Asia
Biography
Ridhima Sharma is a PhD candidate in the Department for the Study of Religion at University of Toronto. Her dissertation is an anthropological study of the Hindu landscape in contemporary North India and its intersections—conceptual, material, and discursive— with work, service, and entrepreneurship. Her research is supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Connaught Fellowship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Mary H. Beatty Scholarship, Department for the Study of Religion Award, Social Justice Fellowship, among others.