Visiting Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
Smita Tewari Jassal has been teaching Social Anthropology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey since 2009. From 2016 -2019 she was Professor of Sociology at Delhi’s Ambedkar University before returning to METU, Ankara. She also taught Anthropology at several universities in USA, including Columbia and Brandeis Universities.
Her research interests include caste, gender, collective memory, marginality, oral/ vernacular traditions, shrines and religiosity.
She held research positions at
Smita Tewari Jassal is the author of:
She is currently working on two manuscripts – one on caste memory, and another on healing at saint shrines in eastern Uttar Pradesh.