- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
- M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1992
Pravina Shukla
Provost Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
- pravina@indiana.edu
- (812) 856-1715
- 800 E. 3rd St., 255
- Office Hours
Education
Dr. Shukla received The President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Spring of 2018. This video was shown at the awards ceremony.
Research interests
- folk art and material culture
- body art
- dress and costume
- museum studies
- food art and culture
- India
- Brazil
- United States
Courses recently taught
- Folk Art
- World Arts & Cultures
- Folklore in the United States
- Fieldwork in Folklore
- Body Art: Dress & Adornment
- Museums & Material Culture
- Food: Art & Culture
Awards & Distinctions
- 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)
Other publication highlights
- “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.
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