Draft:Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is an American anthropologist.
Biography
[edit]Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger was born to Ramoth Isabel ((née Lowe) and Edward Burkhalter, who were both missionaries for the Mennonite Commission on Overseas Mission.[1] Raised in India during her youth,[2] she studied at Woodstock School (class of 1970) in Landour, a hill station in the state of Uttarakhand.[3] She obtained her BA in English at Goshen College and her PhD in South Asian Language and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;[2] her doctoral dissertation Study of a Central Indian Folklore Region: Chhattisgarh was supervised by Velcheru Narayana Rao.[4]
After an unsuccessful search for Hindi language-related jobs, she was inspired to go into anthropology after doing research for what would become her book Amma's Healing Room more than a decade later.[5] In 1992, she moved to Emory University, where she eventually became professor.[5] She retired from Emory University in August 2021 and was promoted to Professor Emerita of Religion.[6]
Her work specializes in the intersection of religious studies and gender studies.[2] She has written several gender studies books on Indian culture (particularly Hinduism and Islam), particularly Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (1996), Amma's Healing Room (2006), and When the World Becomes Female (2013).[2] She was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion,[7] as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of her 2020 book Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds.[2] Additionally, she edited the volumes Oral Epics in India (1989) and Boundaries of the Text (1991) and wrote the textbook Everyday Hinduism (2015).[2]
Her husband Michael Flueckiger has worked as a physician at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital.[1][8] Her brother-in-law Jonathan P. Larson is a memorist who wrote Making Friends Among the Taliban.[1][9]
Bibliography
[edit]- (ed.) Oral Epics in India (1989)
- (ed.) Boundaries of the Text (1991)
- Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (1996)
- In Amma's Healing Room (2006)
- When the World Becomes Female (2013)
- Everyday Hinduism (2015)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Ramoth Burkhalter's work lives on in India". Mennonite Mission Network. September 1, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f "Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger". religion.emory.edu. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- ^ "Hanifl Centre's 2022 Alumni Trek". Quadrangle. Woodstock School. 2022. p. 65.
- ^ Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (1984). Study of a Central Indian Folklore Region: Chhattisgarh (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin-Madison. pp. viii. OCLC 11464894.
- ^ a b Scarborough, Senta (May 11, 2020). "Cuttino Award recognizes Flueckiger's long legacy of mentorship". Emory News Center. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- ^ "Faculty Activities". Emory University Emeritus College Newsletter. Vol. 8, no. 1. August 25, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- ^ "Joyce Flueckiger". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
- ^ "Michael Flueckiger". Georgia Bikes. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
- ^ "Making Friends Among the Taliban". Menno Media. Retrieved December 25, 2024.