Nick Tackes
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Assistant Professor of Asian Religions *** Coates Hall (225) 578-**** |
Professor Tackes is an ethnographer of South Asian religions with a focus on Hindu traditions, material culture, and health-seeking behavior. His research explores how large-scale religious institutions refashion traditions to provide solutions for modern societal problems. Based upon fieldwork with two such institutions, his current book project offers a comparative analysis of Hindu apocalypticism in North India.
B.A. in Religion, Carthage College (2013)
M.A. in Religion, Columbia University (2016)
Ph.D. in Religion, Columbia University (2022)
REL 2027: Asian Religions
REL 3010: Gurus, Godmen, and Godwomen
Recipient of the Teddy Amoloza Conference Travel Award (2023)
Recipient of the Hamilton College Special Collections Faculty Fellowship (2023)
Recipient of the Hindu Temple of Antelope Valley Jagadish Fellowship (2022)
Recipient of the Columbia University IRCPL Dissertation Fellowship (2021)
Recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (2018)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
"The View from Mathura: Nationalist Projections in Local Perspective," Contemporary South Asia 32(1): 84–100
"COVID-19 First Responders: The Gayatri Pariwar and the Immune Ritual Body," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89(3): 1006–38
Book Reviews
Review of Harris Solomon, Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India (Duke University Press, 2016), in Global Public Health 11.2 (2018): 318–19