Curriculum Vitae
PRAVINA SHUKLA
Department of
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
504 North Fess Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana
47408
(812) 856-1715
pravina@indiana.edu
1.5.2008
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Folklore and Mythology (Art History Minor)
Dissertation title: "The
Bejeweled Body: Beauty and Ornamentation in Banaras, India."
University of California, Los
Angeles
1998
M.A., Folklore and Mythology
University of California, Los
Angeles
1994
B.A., Anthropology (Ethnic Studies Minor)
University of California, Berkeley
1992
EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITIES
Department of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Adjunct Faculty
Department of
Anthropology
India Studies
Program
Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Curator
Mathers Museum of
World Cultures
2006 – Present
Department of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2000 – 2006
Teaching Assistant
Folklore and Mythology Program
University of California, Los
Angeles
October 1996 - August 1997
MUSEUMS
Researcher and Exhibition Content Coordinator
Department of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, N.Y.
Collections Manager and Registrar
Lloyd E. CotsenÕs private
collection of art (formerly known as the Neutrogena Collection), Los Angeles,
CA
November 1996 - December 1997
Research Associate
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou exhibition
U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Los Angeles, CA
August 1994 - December 1995
Collections Management Staff
U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Los Angeles, CA
June 1993 - August 1994
Research Assistant
Language of Objects exhibition
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los
Angeles, CA
January 1993 - June 1993
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award
2007
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award
2002
The Silk Road Project Inc. Research Grant
2001
Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship
2001
UCLA Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship
1997-98
UCLA Arnold Rubin Memorial Award
1997
Los Angeles Bead Society Research Grant
1995
UCLA Ralph C. Altman Memorial Award
1995
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of
the Body in Modern India,
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2008.
Dress and Costume: Culture Made Material. Under review at a university press.
SPECIAL
PUBLICATIONS
Adams,
Elizabeth, Sandra Mizumoto Posey, and Pravina Shukla, eds. Man of Constant
Inspiration: Essays in Honor of Michael Owen Jones, special issue, Western Folklore, in press.
McDowell, John H. and Pravina Shukla, Dancing the Ancestors in South America, Bloomington, IN: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 2001.
ARTICLES
ÒEvaluating Saris: Social Tension and Aesthetic Complexity
in the Textile of Modern India.Ó
Western Folklore, in press.
ÒHenna Art.Ó In Liz Locke and Theresa A. Vaughan, eds, WomenÕs
Folklore and Folklife: An Encyclopedia of
Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CIO,
Inc, in press.
ÒDowry.Ó In Liz Locke and Theresa A. Vaughan, eds, WomenÕs
Folklore and Folklife: An
Encyclopedia of Beliefs,
Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-CIO, Inc, in press.
ÒAn Introduction to the Study of Dress and Bodily
Adornment.Ó Midwestern Folklore,
vol.32,
nos. 1/2, spring/fall 2006,
pp.5-12.
ÒFilhos de Gandhy (Afro-Brazilian carnival group).Ó In Anand
Prahlad, ed., Encyclopedia of African
American Folklore. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Publishing Company, 2006.
ÒThe Study of Dress and Adornment as Social Positioning.Ó Material
History Review,
61: Spring 2005: 4-16.
ÒArtists Along the Silk Road.Ó With Henry Glassie, Smithsonian
Folklife Festival
Program Book, Summer 2002, pp.57-65.
ÒNotes on Exhibition Practice and Material Folk Culture in
the Museum.Ó Folklore
Forum, 32: 1/2 (2001): 31-42.
ÒAfro-Brazilian Avatars: GandhiÕs Sons Samba in South
America.Ó Indian Folklore
Research Journal, 1: 1 (May 2001): 35-45.
ÒFolk Art in the Museum.Ó Indian Folklife, 1: 5 (April 2001): 41-42.
ÒThe MahatmaÕs Samba,Ó in
Dancing the Ancestors in South America, John H. McDowell
and Pravina Shukla, Bloomington: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 2001: 13-23.
ÒBeautiful Brides in India.Ó Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, 26 (Fall/Winter
2000): 28-33.
ÒA Body of Art.Ó With Enid Schildkrout, Rotunda, 24: 9 (November 1999): 2-3.
ÒThe Human Canvas.Ó Natural History Magazine, 109: 8 (November 1999): 80-81.
"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.
"Save Me, Salvador." Brazzil Magazine, 8:128 (1996): 39-40.
"Olodum: Bahia's Heartbeat." Brazzil Magazine, 8:127 (1996): 43-45.
REVIEWS
Book Review of Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls
from West Bengal, by Frank Korom
Museum Anthropology Review, in
press.
Review article of Known by the Work of His Hands, by Claire Messimer, Graven
Images: New
England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815, Allan Ludwig, and The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of
KnoxvilleÕs Graveyards, by Jack Neely and
Aaron Jay. Journal of American Folklore, 118: 470 (Fall 2005): 499-501.
Book review of The Hindu Diaspora, by Steven Vertovec. Indian Folklife, 2: 1
(July 2002): 21.
Exhibition review of Pomo Indian Basket Weavers: Their Baskets and the Art Market,
National Museum of the American
Indian. Museum Anthropology, 24:1
(2000): 80-84.
Exhibition review of The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe:
Ninety-Nine and a Half WonÕt Do,
Museum of American Folk Art. Journal
of American Folklore, 113: 447 (Winter
2000): 90-92.
Review article of The Museum in America: Innovators and
Pioneers, by Edward P.
Alexander, Introduction to
Museum Work, by G. Ellis Burcaw, and Registration
Methods for the Small Museum by Daniel B.
Reibel. Journal of American Folklore,
113: 448 (Spring 2000): 223-226.
Book review of Lives of Indian Images, by Richard H. Davis, Museum Anthropology, 23:1 (1999): 57-59.
EXHIBITIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Guest Curator
The MahatmaÕs Samba
Mathers Museum of World Cultures,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
February 2001 – May 2002
Guest Curator
Dancing with Gandhi in
Afro-Brazil
Porter Butts Gallery, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
January - February 2000
Co-Curator
Body Art: Marks of Identity
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, NY
Guest Curator
Scenes of Bahian Carnaval
U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Los Angeles, CA
August - December 1997
Guest Curator
Textiles at the Fowler: Past and
Future
U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Los Angeles, CA
March - June 1993
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOS IN MUSEUMS
Single Artist
Showing of Photographs
The MahatmaÕs Samba at Mathers Museum of World Cultures, I.U.
(2001-2002)
Dancing with Gandhi in
Afro-Brazil at Porter Butts Gallery, U. of
W., Madison (2000)
Scenes of Bahian Carnaval at UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (1997)
Photos in Museum
Exhibitions
Body Art: Marks of Identity at American Museum of Natural History, 1999-2000
What is Culture? at Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 2005.
Museum of the African Diaspora,
Oakland, CA, 2005.
PHOTOS PUBLISHED
Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, in press.
The Herald Times,
March 2001
Body Art: Marks of Identity TeacherÕs Guide, December 1999
India Abroad,
December 1999
The New York Times,
Weekend Fine Arts/Leisure, November 1999
Arts and Antiques,
November 1999
Spotlight, November
1999
National Geographic Traveller, November 1999
LA Weekly, April 1997
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
INVITED LECTURES
ÒAesthetic Complexity and
Social Tension in the Art of Dress in Modern India.Ó Center for Asian Studies,
Department of Anthropology, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2007.
ÒCostumes: An Overview of
Style and Function.Ó Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN,
September 2007.
ÒAesthetic Complexity and
Social Tension in the Art of the Body in Modern India.Ó The
Curriculum
in Folklore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2006.
ÒArt and Dress in Modern India.Ó The Program for
Ethnographic Research and Community
Studies, Elon University, Burlington, North Carolina, March 2006.
ÒCreativity in Everyday Dress in Modern India.Ó Center for
Arkansas and Regional Studies,
Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of Arkansas, April 2005.
ÒThe Art of Bodily Adornment in Modern India.Ó The Mary and
George Bloch Chair for
Comparative Research / The Yolanda
and David Katz Faculty of the Arts Lecture, Tel Aviv University, Israel, March
2005.
ÒArt and Culture.Ó DirectorÕs Dialogue, The Craft and Folk
Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA,
November 2003.
Presenter of Indian Textile Arts, at The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust,
36th Annual Smithsonian
Folklife Festival, Washington, D.C., June/July 2002.
ÒHistory, Culture, and Religion of Brazil.Ó Kelly
International Perspectives (KIP), The
Kelly School of Business, Indiana
University, January 2002.
ÒProblems in Developing Exhibitions for the National
Museum.Ó Bangladesh
National Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
July 2001.
ÒGender Issues in Contemporary Folklore Scholarship.Ó
Islamic University,
Kushtia, Bangladesh, July 2001.
ÒArtistic Creations on the Body.Ó Material Culture, Chicago,
IL, March, 2001.
ÒA Body of Art: Self-Adornment in Banaras, India.Ó India
Studies Program and the Indiana
Network for the Development of India Awareness, Indiana University, March 2001.
ÒCarnival in Brazil: An Introduction.Ó Carnival
Explorations Mathers
Museum of World Cultures, February
2001.
ÒThe MahatmaÕs Samba.Ó CuratorÕs Walkthrough, Carnival
Celebrations Family
Day, Mathers Museum of
World Cultures, February 2001.
Ford Foundation and National Folklore Support CentreÕs Workshop
on Documenting Creative
Processes of Folklore, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, 2/5/2001-2/19/2001:
ÒFolklore: Careers
and Concerns,Ó February 6, 2001
ÒCreation: Making
and Remaking the World,Ó February 9, 2001
ÒDiaspora: Creativity
in Cultural Dispersion,Ó February 10, 2001
ÒDocumentation:
Work and Ethics in Ethnography,Ó February 14, 2001
ÒThe Presentation
of Results: Scholarly Situation and Cultural Comparison,Ó
February 17, 2001
ÒExhibition Practice and Material Folk Culture.Ó National
Endowment for the Humanities
ChairmanÕs Forum on Folklore and
the Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 2000.
ÒEphemeral Body Arts.Ó Adult Multicultural Lecture Series,
American Museum of
Natural History, in conjunction
with the exhibition ÒBody Arts: Marks of Identity,Ó November 1999.
"Beads, Drums and the Body in the Carnaval of Bahia,
Brazil." Bower's Museum of Cultural
Art, Santa Ana, CA, October 1997.
"Ornaments of Power." Los Angeles Bead Society
Lecture Series, Los Angeles, CA, June 1997.
"The Bridal Body: The Role of Jewelry in India."
Bower's Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana,
CA, June 1997.
"The Art of Adornment: Women Folk Artists in
India." UCLA Fowler Museum of
Cultural History, April 1997.
"Beads of Identity: Body Adornment in Salvador da
Bahia, Brazil." Los Angeles Bead
Society Lecture Series, Los
Angeles, CA, December 1996.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
ÒSacred Pattern, WomenÕs Art, and Visual Communication in
Modern India.Ó Materializing
India: Globalization, Gender, and
Media, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN, February 2005.
ÒA Folkloristic Angle on the City of Light.Ó Hoosier
Folklore Conference, Terre Haute, IN,
November 2004.
ÒBody Art in Modern India.Ó Conference on Technology and the
Body, Canada Science and
Technology Museum, Ottawa, Canada, November 2004.
ÒSeeing as Action: Sacred and Secular Gaze in Contemporary
India.Ó American Folklore Society
Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2004.
ÒSocial Positioning Through Personal Adornment in India.Ó
American Folklore Society Meeting,
Albuquerque, NM, October 2003.
ÒPublic Presentations: Photography of Celebration.Ó American
Folklore Society Meeting,
Rochester, NY, October 2002.
ÒFestival and Identity.Ó Carnival, Art and Identity
Symposium of the Department of
Folklore and Ethnomusicology,
Bloomington, IN, February 2002.
ÒUntitled Bodies of Art: Crafting the Self Through Personal
Adornment.Ó American Folklore
Society Meeting, Columbus, OH, October 2000.
ÒPutting Bodies into Body Art: Accessing Voice at the American Museum of Natural
History.Ó with Heather Nielsen, 15th
Annual New York State Folk Arts Roundtable, Syracuse, NY, May 2000.
ÒThe MahatmaÕs
Samba: Gandhi in the Afro-Carnival of Salvador, Brazil.Ó American Folklore
Society Meeting, Memphis, TN, October 1999.
"Sonic Aspects of Material Culture." with R. Mark
Livengood, California Folklore
Society Meeting, Sacramento, CA,
April 1998.
"She Walks in Beauty: The Art of Self-Adornment in
Banaras, India." California Folklore Society
Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, April 1997.
"Of Bangles and Bells: A Behavioral Approach to Jewelry
Wearing in Banaras, India." American
Folklore Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1996.
"Chew on This: Betel Stories from India." Annual
Conference on South Asia,
Madison, WI, November 1994.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
EDITORIAL
Editor, Exhibitions and Events Review
Journal of American Folklore
2002 - 2005
Advisory Board
Material History Review Journal (Canada)
2001 - present
Assistant Editor
Journal
of Asian Culture
1994
- 1996
Peer Review of Books
University
of Mississippi Press, 11/2007
Indiana
University Press, 12/2007
Peer Review of Articles
African
Arts, 12/2007
Anthropological
Quarterly, 8/2007
Journal
of Folklore Research, 10/2006
Material History Review, 8/2005
Material
History Review, 5/2002
Journal of American Folklore, 8/2001
Journal of Folklore Research, 6/2001
CONFERENCE
SESSIONS, SYMPOSIA, AND COLLOQUIA
Co-Organizer of Symposium
Materializing India:
Globalization, Gender, and Media
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
February 2005
Panel Chair
Deep Seeing
American Folklore Society Meeting,
Salt Lake City, UT
October 2004
Panel Chair
International Studies
The Status of India Studies in the
U.S. International Conference, Bloomington, IN
September 2004
Co-Chair of Symposium
Carnival, Art and Identity
Department of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
February 2002
Chair of Colloquium Series
Department of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
2000-2002
Panel Chair
WomenÕs Expressive Culture
American Folklore Society Columbus,
OH
October 2001
Panel Chair
Material Culture
American Folklore Society Memphis,
TN
October 1999
MUSEUMS,
FESTIVALS, AND ARTS COUNCILS
Advisory Panel Member
Things in Common permanent exhibition
Brooklyn ChildrenÕs Museum, NY
2003 - present
Advisory Council Member
Garton Farm Museum Committee
Bloomington Restorations, Inc
(Historic Preservation)
2005 - present
Consultant
The Silk Road Folklife Festival
Smithsonian Institution
2000 - 2002
Panelist
Folk Arts Program
New York State Council on the Arts
2000 - 2002
Advisory Committee
NYC@Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Smithsonian Institution
2000 – 2001
Auditor
Folk Arts Program
New York State Council on the Arts
2000
Consultant
Dancing in the Street: Tradition
and Invention in Contemporary Carnival exhibition
Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art
Museum
October 1999 – January 2000
Panelist
Folk and Traditional Arts Division
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department
1997
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
President
Hoosier Folklore Society
2006-present
Vice President
Hoosier Folklore Society
2003 – 2006
Judge
The
American Folklore Society Richard Reuss Prize for Students of Folklore and History, The Folklore Historian
2007
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Advisory Committee Member
India Studies Program, Indiana
University
2000 - present
Indiana University Fulbright Committee
2007
Curriculum Committee
India
Studies Program
2004-2005
Faculty Judge
Kulkarni Arts and Humanities Prize
on Modern India
2004
Search Committee Member, COAS
Asian
American Studies Position
2004-2005
Chair of Policy Committee
Mathers Museum of World Cultures,
Indiana University
2005 - Present
Policy Committee Member
Mathers Museum of World Cultures,
Indiana University
2001 - 2005
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Graduate Affairs Committee, Member,
2006-2007
Undergraduate Affairs Committee,
Member 2002 – 2006, 2007-2008
Public
Arts and Culture Committee, Chair 2007-2008
Public
Arts and Culture Committee, Member 2002 - present
Faculty
Affairs Committee, Member, 2007-2008
Special
Projects Committee Member 2002- 2004
Search Committee, Member 2003 -
2004
Undergraduate Curriculum Review,
Member 2002
Service Classes Task Force, Member
2001
TEACHING
INTERNATIONAL
Folklore Faculty
National Folklore Support Center
Ford Foundation International
Conference
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
February 2000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
STUDENT COMMITTEES
(Current and completed,
since 2000)
1 Undergraduate Committee
Co-Director of Individualized Major
Program
23
MA Committees
Director of 10 M.A.
theses
Committee Member of
13 M.A. theses
19
PhD Committees
Director of 3 PhD
dissertations
Committee Member of
16 Ph.D. theses
CLASSES
F131, Introduction to Folklore
in the United States
Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001,
Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall
2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
F440/540, Body Art: Dress and
Adornment
Fall
2000, Spring 2003, Fall 2005, Spring 2008
F523, Fieldwork in Folklore
Spring
2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2004
F440/730, Museums and Material
Culture
Fall
2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007
F540, Food: Art and Culture
Fall
2006
INDEPENDENT
READING AND PRACTICUM SUPERVISION
F400, Readings Course on Writings
on Folk Religions, Fall 2007
F800, Readings Course on Material
Culture in Literature, Fall 2007
F803, Practicum at Mathers Museum,
Fall 2007
F803, Practicum at Daisy Garton
Farm Museum, Fall 2007
F403, Practicum at Mathers Museum,
Fall 2006
F800, Readings Course on Dress and
Uniforms, Spring 2006
F800, Readings Course on Material
Culture/Architecture, Fall 2005
F800, Readings Course on Costumes,
Fall 2005
F800, Practicum with Traditional
Arts Indiana, Spring 2005
F400, Readings Course on Fieldwork,
Spring 2005
F400, Practicum at Indianapolis
ChildrenÕs Museum, Summer 2004
COAS I460, Readings on CandomblŽ
and Santer’a, Spring 2004
COAS I460, Readings on Museum
Theory, Spring 2004
F800, Readings in Material Culture,
Spring 2003
F800, Readings in Native American
Costume History, Spring 2001
L803, Readings in Latin American
Studies, Spring 2001
F403, Practicum in Educational and
Public Programs, Spring 2001
F400, Fieldwork on Herb Hunting,
Fall 2001
FIELDWORK
Sweden: Leksand, Dalarna
June
– July 2007
Brazil: Salvador da Bahia; Olinda, Recife, and Caruaru,
Pernambuco
January
– February 2007
India: Banaras, Rajasthan, New Delhi
June – August 2003
India: Banaras, Rajasthan, and Bangladesh: Dhaka
June – August 2001
Brazil: Salvador da Bahia
January - March, 1998
Brazil: Salvador da Bahia
January - February, 1997
Brazil: Salvador da Bahia
January - March 1996
India: Banaras
April - October 1996
LANGUAGES
Portuguese, Fluent
Hindi, Fluent
Spanish, Working Knowledge
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Museums
American Folklore Society
Costume Society of America
Hoosier Folklore Society