Fw: H-ASIA: APPT ANN Anand Vivek Taneja, S & SE Asian Islam, Vanderbilt Univ.

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: APPT ANN Anand Vivek Taneja, S & SE Asian Islam, Vanderbilt
Univ.


> H-ASIA
> December 8, 2012
>
> Appointment announcement: Anand Vivek Taneja joining Department of
> Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University in South and Southeast Asian
> Islam position
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> Ed. note: Congratulations to Anand Vivek Taneja. I would encourage all
> H-ASIA members of departments making appointments in relevant Asia
> fields--particularly if the position was reported on H-ASIA--as a very
> useful and timely news item for the benefit of colleagues in the field.
> Sometimes I have encouraged members who had accepted appointments to
> report it and share the news with H-ASIA, but there is an (in my view)
> unfortunate sense of shyness on this matter. FFC
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> From: "Stewart, Tony K" <tony.k.stewart@Vanderbilt.Edu>
>
> Position in South and/or Southeast Asian Islam, Department of Religious
> Studies, Vanderbilt University filled.
>
> I am happy to announce that Mr. Anand Vivek Taneja has accepted an
> appointment as Assistant Professor of the Islamic Traditions of South Asia
> in the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University.
> Mr. Taneja is finishing his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University.
> His dissertation is titled "The Sacred as History: Presencing the Past in
> the Medieval Ruins of Delhi."
> He earned his MA degree in Film and Mass Communication from Jamia Millia
> Islamia in New Delhi (2004) and his BA from Ramjas College, Delhi
> University (2001).
>
> Currently Mr. Taneja is a preceptor for Columbia College's Center for the
> Core Curriculum, where he will continue through spring 2013. He will join
> Vanderbilt University's Department of Religious Studies in August 2013.
>
> Tony Stewart
> Department of Religious Studies
> Vanderbilt University
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