Kirin Narayan Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987 Professor of Anthropology Contact information: Office: 5240 W. H. Sewell Social Science Building Phone: 608-262-2866 E-mail: knarayan@wisc.edu

Research:
Professor Narayan will be on leave in 2006-2007, writing a book on women's sung mythology in the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra, Northwest India, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to long-term fieldwork on oral traditions in South Asia, she is also researching 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.

Teaching:
Professor Narayan teaches courses that include Anthropology of South Asia, Anthropology of Life Stories, Anthropological Approaches to Folklore, South Asian Diaspora, South Asian Americans: An Ethnographic Approach, Ethnographic Writing