Pravina Shukla: Faculty: About: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Indiana University Bloomington

Pravina Shukla

Provost Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Chair, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director, Folklore Institute

Dr. Shukla received The President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Spring of 2018. This video was shown at the awards ceremony.

Elected Fellow of the American Folklore Society (2020)
Faculty Mentor Award, Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student Government (2020)
President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2018)
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2016)
A.K. Coomaraswamy Book Prize by the South Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies, for The Grace of Four Moons. Awarded to “the author of the best English-language work in South Asian studies” (2010)
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2010)
Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America, for The Grace of Four Moons, awarded for “excellence in scholarship in the study of costume” (2009)
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2007)
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2002)

Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian

Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil

Performing Identities through Dress

Folkloristic Perspectives

Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

“The Future of Dress Scholarship: Sartorial Autobiographies and the Social History of Clothes.” Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2015: 53-68.
Shukla, Pravina, Ed. “Dress, Costume, and Bodily Adornment as Material Culture,” Special Issue, Midwestern Folklore, 32(1/2) (spring/fall 2006).
“Evaluating Saris: Social Tension and Aesthetic Complexity in the Textile of Modern India.” Western Folklore, 67(2/3) (spring/summer 2008): 162-177.
“An Introduction to the Study of Dress and Bodily Adornment.” Midwestern Folklore, 32 (1/2) (spring/fall 2006): 5-12.
“The Study of Dress and Adornment as Social Positioning.” Material History Review, 61: (Spring 2005): 4-16.
“Afro-Brazilian Avatars: Gandhi’s Sons Samba in South America.” Indian Folklore Research Journal, 1(1) (2001): 35-45.
“Beads of Identity in Salvador da Bahia.” In Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe, Henry J. Drewal and John Mason, eds., Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998, pp. 187-197.