Christian Lee Novetzke

Christian Novetzke (PhD, Religion, Columbia) is College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor of South Asia Studies, Comparative Religion, and International Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India (Columbia, 2008) and The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India (Columbia, 2016); coauthor (with Andrew...See more

Christian Novetzke (PhD, Religion, Columbia) is College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor of South Asia Studies, Comparative Religion, and International Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India (Columbia, 2008) and The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India (Columbia, 2016); coauthor (with Andrew Rotman and William Elison) of Amar Akbar Anthony: Brotherhood, Bollywood, and the Nation (Harvard, 2016) and (with Sunila Kale) The Political Idea of Yoga (Columbia, forthcoming); and coeditor (with John Stratton Hawley and Swapna Sharma) of Bhakti and Power (Washington, 2018). His research interests span South Asian religion, history, and culture from the medieval period to the present. See less