PRANAV PRAKASH
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Recipient of
Alice Lampe Heidel & John B. Heidel Award
in recognition of commitment to teaching and exceptional service to undergraduate students,
by the Department of Religious Studies, The University of Iowa, US


Hilary and Trinity Terms 2023

Classical Hindi

Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK.
Associate Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK
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Self-Designed & Self-Taught
Image: Youth and Dervish, late 17th century, Acc. No. 11.84.13, The MET Fifth Avenue, New York.
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Hilary and Trinity Terms 2023

Literary Hindi

Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK.
Associate Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK
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Self-Designed & Self-Taught
Image (left to right): Bhagat Singh (1907–31), Ismat Chughtai (1915–91), and Pash (1950–88); ©Wikimedia CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Summer 2021

Elementary Sanskrit

Associate Lecturer, South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), University of Wisconsin–Madison, US.

Self-Designed & Team-Taught
Image: Viṣṇu instructing an assembly of elite men, M.72.53.27a-b, LACMA (©LACMA).
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Spring 2021

Asian Humanities: India

Teaching Assistant, Department of Asian & Slavic Languages, University of Iowa, US.

Self–Designed & Self–Taught 

Image: Chāndogya Upaniṣad, Lalchand Research Library, Chandigarh. Photo by Sarah Welch ©Wikimedia CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Fall 2020

Living Religions of the East

Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.
Course supervised by Prof. Morten Schlütter, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.
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Spring 2020

Introduction to Buddhism

Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.

Self–Designed & Self–Taught 

Image: Green by Pranav Prakash, Ink and water color, © 2022 Pranav Prakash.

Fall 2019

Living Religions of the East

Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.
Course supervised by Prof. Morten Schlütter, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.
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Summer 2015

Prakrit Languages

Language Instructor, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Deccan College, Pune, India.


Image: A folio of the Uttarādhyayanasūtra, AC1993.225.1, LACMA (©LACMA).

Spring 2015

Classical Mythology

Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.
Course supervised by Dr. Vasiliki Kostopoulou, Department of Classics, University of Iowa, US.


Image: Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game, 540-530 BCE, Musei Vaticani, Rome.
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Fall 2014

Judaism: The Sacred & The Secular

Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.
Course supervised by Prof. Jay A. Holstein, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.


Image: Yemenite Torah Scrolls, Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0.

Summer 2014

Sanskrit

Language Instructor, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Deccan College, Pune, India.


Image: Devīmāhātmya (11th century Ms from Nepal; Sam Fogg cat. 17(1996):40. Photo by Sarah Welch; Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Fall 2013

Introduction to Sanskrit

Language Instructor, Khāna-ye Honar, Tehran, Iran.


Self–Designed & Self–Taught 
Image: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.8-10, Lalchand Research Library Collection, Photo by Sarah Welch, Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0.

Spring 2012

Introduction to Buddhism

Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.
Course supervised by Prof. Morten Schlütter, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.


Image: Amida Buddha at the Jodo Shinshu altars. Source: Jodo Shinshu Handbook for Laymen.
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Fall 2011

Living Religions of the East

Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, US.
Course supervised by Prof. Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, University of Iowa, US.

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