Publications | Shana Sippy

Selected Scholarly Work

Books

Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Cultivation of Longing, (New York University Press, forthcoming)
Strange and Storied Alliances: Hindus and Jews, India and Israel, manuscript in progress
Educating Ourselves: The College Women's Handbook, Shana Sippy and Rachel Dobkin, (New York: Workman Press, 1995).

“Ambivalent Belonging in the Fields of Home,” Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India, Fieldwork in Religion. Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (2020), 80-96.
“Visualizing Regimes in the Making and Molding of Jewish Subjectivities,” in a Symposium: Jewish Identification and Critical Theory: The Political Significance of Conception Categories, Critical Research on Religion. Vol 2, no. 2 (2014), 165-194.
“Teaching Hindu Stories as Ways of Fashioning Selves and Framing Lives,” Special Issue Teaching Tales: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling, Religious Studies News, ed. Raj Balkaran. May 2018. Featured in the Wire, July 2018.
“Will the Real Mango Please Stand Up?: Defending Dharma and Historicizing Hinduism,” Public Hinduisms, eds. J. Zavos, et. al. London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012.
“Sita in the City: The Ramayana’s Heroine in New York,” co-author with Anne Murphy, Manushi, No. 117. March-April 2000. New Delhi, India.

Sacred Minnesota—a series of four-documentary shorts created with Twin Cities Public Television with support from the Mellon Foundation, Carleton College, and the Minnesota Humanities Center–with Michael McNally
ReligionsMN.org, co-director with Michael McNally
Center for Jewish Ethics, National Endowment for the Humanities funded project on Race, Religion and American Judaism: Cross-Disciplinary Research, Public Scholarship, and Curriculum Development—“Jewish Identities and the Co-constitution of ‘Race’ and ‘Religion’,” A series of six public lectures, 2022.

"Hindu Fragility and the Politics of Mimicry in North America," Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Shana Sippy), Immanent Frame special forum on Hindutva and the global far-right, November 2, 2022.
“Auntylectuals: An Anti-Taxonomy of Aunty-Power,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti. Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy), Special Issue of Text and Performance Quarterly, 42:3, 2022.

“Feminist Critical Hindu Studies in Formation,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti. Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy), Religion Compass, e12392, March 2021.

“Episode 149—Teaching Hindu Studies,” with Sailaja Krishnamurti, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Podcast, December 7, 2021.
“Not all Hinduism is Hindutva, but Hindutva is in fact Hinduism,” with Sailaja Krishnamurti, Scroll, September 15, 2021.
“Hinduphobia is a Smokescreen,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti. Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy) w/Dheepa Sundaram, Religion News Service and Washington Post, September 10, 2021.
“More than a Reading List: Challenging Anti-Black Racism in the Field of South Asian Studies,” feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy), Down with Brown Blog, 2020.

Co-Curator, Beyond Borders: The Art of Siona Benjamin, Norton Center for the Arts—Centre College, Danville, KY, Jan-June, 2022.
Co-editor with Samantha Baskind, Beyond Borders: the Art of Siona Benjamin catalogue, 2022.
Curator, Hearing the Voices: Celebrating Diversity at Faribault High School, Faribault, MN, 2013.
Co-Curator with Anne Murphy, Sita in the City: The Ramayana’s Heroine in New York, Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University, New York, 1999.

“Purity Politics and the Problem of Jewish Solidarity,” Jews, Race, and Religion Lecture Series, Katz Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 2021.
“Seeing the Silence,” Centre College Opening Convocation Address, August 2021.