Professor Vijaya Nagarajan teaches courses on Hinduism,
Religion and Environment, Spiritual Autobiography, and Community
Internships. Her scholarship has centered on the multivalent
meanings in the kolam, a women's ritual art in
southern India. She is currently working on her book, Feeding a
Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Art in southern India---The
Kolam (Oxford University Press). Her other research projects
include: On the Languages of the Commons; Tree Temples, Mangroves
and Temple Forests; and Twins and Hinduism in the California
Diaspora. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion
and in the environmental movement in India and the United
States.
