Srinivas Examining Role of Gender, Caste, and Religion in Climate Justice

Tulasi Srinivas, professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies in the Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, was selected as a research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School.

She will spend the 2022-2023 academic year at Harvard working on a book-length project exploring the role of gender, caste, and religion in climate justice initiatives.

Her project is titled The Runaway Goddess: Water, Gender and Caste in a Climate Apocalypse.

In her project, Srinivas will highlight the “paradox between Hinduism’s view of water as female, sacred and sentient, and the endemic pollution of water resources and climate- driven drought in contemporary India,” according to Women’s Studies in Religion Program website.