Ravi Gupta
November 15, Lecture
Ravi M. Gupta holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies and serves as Professor and Department Head of the Department of History at Utah State University. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Boise State University (1999) and his MSt in the Study of Religion (2000) and DPhil in Hinduism (2004) from the University of Oxford. He is the author or editor of four books, including an abridged translation of the Bhagavata Purana (with Kenneth Valpey), published in 2017 by Columbia University Press. Professor Gupta is a Permanent Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a past president of the Society for Hindu Christian Studies. His current research focuses on the Bhagavata Purana's Sanskrit commentaries. He enjoys teaching World Religions, Hinduism, Sanskrit, and Religious Studies Theory and Method.