Pravina Shukla

Pravina Shukla Associate Professor of Folklore;
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office: 506 N. Fess 300
Phone: (812) 856-1715
E-mail: pravina indiana.edu

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WFHB Interchange Interview - On Body Art

Folk art and material culture; body art; dress and costume; museum studies; food art and culture; India; Brazil; United States

Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2010)
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)
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 College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) Travel and Research Grant (2009)
Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Travel Grant (2008)
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2007)
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2002)
The Silk Road Project Research Grant (2001)
Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship (2001)
UCLA Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship (1997)
UCLA Arnold Rubin Memorial Award (1997)
UCLA Ralph C. Altman Memorial Award (1995)

The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives. Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla, Eds. Indiana University Press, 2011.
The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).
(with Elizabeth Adams, Sandra Mizumoto Posey) “Man of Constant Inspiration: Essays in Honor of Michael Owen Jones,” Special Issue, Western Folklore, 67(2/3) (2008).
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.