The RISA Steering Committee

RISA is the Religion in South Asia Section of the American Academy of Religion. The activities of RISA, including the annual meeting programs and the RISA-L email list, are supervised by a Steering Committee.

Current members of the RISA Steering Committee are:

John Cort, co-chair
Denison University

cort @ denison.edu

Robin Rinehart, co-chair
Lafayette College

rineharr @ lafayette.edu

Amir Husain
Loyola Marymount University

amir.hussain @ lmu.edu

Eliza Kent

Colgate University

ekent @ mail.colgate.edu

Rebecca Manring
University of Indiana, Bloomington

rmanring @ indiana.edu

Christian Lee Novetzke
University of Washington

novetzke @ u.washington.edu

Archana Venkatesan
University of California-Davis

nacciyar @ gmail.com

The terms of the current Steering Committee members expire in November, 2010.

Anyone with questions or comments regarding RISA or its activities is invited to contact members of the RISA-L Steering Committee. (For questions or comments regarding the RISA-L email list, please contact members of the RISA-L Advisory Committee below.)

The RISA-L Advisory Committee

Policy (and any disciplinary) decisions pertaining to the list will be taken by this Advisory Committee, in consultation with the RISA Steering Committee. This committee currently consists of

Steering Committee members
, founding manager of RISA-L (retired)
, current manger of RISA-L, Department of Religious Studies, Case Western University

NB The Steering Committee has determined that the RISA-L manager's term of service and rotation should be defined and formalized. With this end in view, Deepak Sarma's and the RISA-L Advisory Committee's appointment will be an interim one, expiring on the December 31st following the election of the next Steering Committee. It will be the responsibility of the new Steering Committee to select a new RISA-L manager (or co-managers) and advisory committee, who will then serve a three year term.

Anyone with questions or comments regarding the RISA-L email list is invited to contact members of the RISA-L Advisory Committee.

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Revised: April 19, 2008