Shana Sippy

Selected Publications/Public Scholarship

Books

• Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Cultivation of Longing, (New York University Press, forthcoming)​

• Strange and Storied Alliances: Hindus and Jews, India and Israel, manuscript in progress

• Educating Ourselves: The College Women’s Handbook, Shana Sippy and Rachel Dobkin, (New York: Workman Press, 1995).

​​Articles

• “Ambivalent Belonging in the Fields of Home,” Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India, Fieldwork in Religion. Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (2020), 80-96.

• “Visualizing Regimes in the Making and Molding of Jewish Subjectivities,” in a Symposium: Jewish Identification and Critical Theory: The Political Significance of Conception Categories, Critical Research on Religion. Vol 2, no. 2 (2014), 165-194.

• “Teaching Hindu Stories as Ways of Fashioning Selves and Framing Lives,” Special Issue Teaching Tales: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling, Religious Studies News, ed. Raj Balkaran. May 2018. Featured in the Wire, July 2018.

• “Will the Real Mango Please Stand Up?: Defending Dharma and Historicizing Hinduism,” Public Hinduisms, eds. J. Zavos, et. al. London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012.

•  “Sita in the City: The Ramayana’s Heroine in New York,” co-author with Anne Murphy, Manushi, No. 117. March-April 2000. New Delhi, India.

​Documentary Shorts

• Sacred Minnesota—a series of four-documentary shorts created with Twin Cities Public Television with support from the Mellon Foundation, Carleton College, and the Minnesota Humanities Center.

​Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Articles

• “Hindu Fragility and the Politics of Mimicry in North America,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Shana Sippy), Immanent Frame special forum on Hindutva and the global far-right, forthcoming.

• “Auntylectuals: An Anti-Taxonomy of Aunty-Power,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti. Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy), Special Issue of Text and Performance Quarterly, 42:3, 2022.

• “Feminist Critical Hindu Studies in Formation,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti. Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy), Religion Compass, e12392, March 2021.

• “Episode 149—Teaching Hindu Studies,” with Sailaja Krishnamurti, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Podcast, December 7, 2021.

• “Not all Hinduism is Hindutva, but Hindutva is in fact Hinduism,” with Sailaja Krishnamurti, Scroll, September 15, 2021.

• “Hinduphobia is a Smokescreen,” Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti. Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy) w/Dheepa Sundaram, Religion News Service and Washington Post, September 10, 2021.

• “More than a Reading List: Challenging Anti-Black Racism in the Field of South Asian Studies,” feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Tanisha Ramachandran, Shana Sippy), Down with Brown Blog, 2020.

​Curated Exhibitions and Catalogues​

• • Co-Curator, Beyond Borders: The Art of Siona Benjamin, Norton Center for the Arts—Centre College, Danville, KY, Jan-June, 2022.

  • Co-editor with Samantha Baskind, Beyond Borders: the Art of Siona Benjamin catalogue, 2022.

  • Curator, Hearing the Voices: Celebrating Diversity at Faribault High School, Faribault, MN, 2013.

  • Co-Curator with Anne Murphy, Sita in the City: The Ramayana’s Heroine in New York, Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University, New York, 1999.

Academic Consultant in Publications

“Here’s Everything You Need to Know about Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors,” Time Magazine, Mar. 9, 2020, Abhishyant Kidangoor; “Good Wives, Good Soldiers: Durga Vahini Women Take Up Arms to Protect Hindu Identity,“ PRI’s The World, Kalpana Jain, Nov. 14, 2019; “Does Hindu Cleric Who Prays Before Legislative Bodies Speak for Hinduism?” The Christian Century, Sonia Paul, April 22, 2019; “Hindu Guest Chaplain, at Your Service—But Does He Speak for all Hindus,” Religion News Service, Sonia Paul, April 10, 2019; The Washington Post, “What Would a Hindu Justice Mean for the Supreme Court?” by Julie Zauzmer, Mar. 10, 2016; The New York Times, “Building on U.S. Tradition, Camp for Hindu Children Strengthens Their Identity,” by Samuel G. Friedman, Aug. 22, 2014; The New York Times, articles by Neela Banerjee: “Challenging Tradition: Jews Worship on Their Own Terms,” Nov. 28, 2007; “In Jews, Indian Americans See Role Model in Activism,” October 2, 2007, and “Camp Joins Summer Fun with Teaching Hindu Faith,” Jul. 21, 2007.