Education

• Duke University (2020-Current)

  Doctor of Philosophy in Religion (Religion, Aesthetics, and Society track)

• University of Virginia (2019-2020)

  Master of Arts in Anthropology

• University of Virginia (2015-2019)

  Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in History and Philosophy

Honors and Awards

• James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship (2023-2024)

• Gurney Harriss Kearns Summer Research Fellowship (2023)

• Duke India Initiative (DII) Graduate Student Travel Grant (2023)

• Graduate Student Fellow for the Humanities Unbounded (2021-2022; Re-Awarded 2022-2023)
  (“Asia” in the Making of American Religiosity Lab, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded)

• Graduate Student Fellow for the Humanities Unbounded (2020-2021)
  (Ethnography Workshop, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded)

• Harrison Undergraduate Research Award (2018)

• “Summer of Theory” Fellowship to Bielefeld University (2018)

Professional Experience

• American Academy of Religion (AAR) Steering Committee (2023)
  Committee Member for the North American Hinduism Unit

• Duke University Department of Religious Studies (2021-Current)
  Teaching Assistant

• Duke University Humanities Unbounded Labs (2021-2022)
  Graduate Assistant for the “Asia” in the Making of American Religiosity Lab

• The Fralin Museum of Art (2018-2020)
  Museum Assistant and Docent

Publications

1. Maini, Shreya. Book Review, “The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar, by Daniel Heifetz.” Religion (2023)

2. Maini, Shreya. Book Review, “Time’s Monsters: How History Makes History, by Priya Satia.” Journal of Dharma Studies 5, 197–199 (2022)

Languages

• Hindi: Advanced (speaking) Intermediate (script)

• French: Advanced (6 years coursework)

• Sanskrit: Intermediate (1.5 years coursework)

• Telugu: Beginner

Conference Presentations

• “Beyond the Binary of Fate Versus Probability: Theorizing Religious Coincidence through Ethnography.” New Forays in Theory in Method in the Anthropology of Religion. American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2022.