Anne Feldhaus

Anne Feldhaus (Phelḍahāusa, Âna; born 1949) is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University and became President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2018. Her field of specialty is Maharashtra, India, combining philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of Maharashtra, the Marathi-language region of western India.
Academic career.
After graduating from Manhattanville College in 1971, she earned her Doctor's degree in Religious Thought at University of Pennsylvania in 1976. She joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1981, and became full professor in 1988. Among her awards and honors are Fulbright-Hays Research Award (1993–1994)(1987–1989); Social Science Research Council Research Award (1995); John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2002–2003); National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research (2007–2008).