Veena Das
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University Photo Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Veena Das is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Johns Hopkins in 2000, Prof. Das taught at Delhi University for 30 years.
Prof. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and sciences, British Academy and Academy of Scientists from Developing Counties. Among her many awards are the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, the Anders Retzius Award of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography in 1995, and the Ghurye Award in 1977. Das was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize by the University of Geneva (2014), Sudhindra Chakrobarty Award, University of Calcutta (2020), and GBD Eminent Scholar Recognition by the International Studies Association (2021).
Veena Das’s published works include Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007), Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015), Textures of the Ordinary, Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein (2020), Slum Acts (2022) and three co-edited volumes, The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy (2014), Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium (2015) and Politics of the Urban Poor (Special Issue, co-edited, 2015)