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


Summer 2021

Elementary Sanskrit

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


Self-Designed & Team-Taught
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Viṣṇu instructing an assembly of elite men, LACMA Ms. M.72.53.27a-b.

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Chāndogya Upaniṣad, Lalchand Research Library Collection, Chandigarh. Photo by Sarah Welch ©Wikimedia CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Spring 2021

Asian Humanities: India

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

Self–Designed & Self–Taught 


Fall 2020

Living Religions of the East

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 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 for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

Self–Designed & Self–Taught 


Fall 2019

Living Religions of the East

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

Course supervised by Prof. Morten Schlütter, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

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A folio of the Uttarādhyayanasūtra, LACMA AC1993.225.1.

Summer 2015

Prakrit Languages

Language Instructor for the Summer Language Program of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Chicago, US, organized at the Deccan College, Pune, India.



Spring 2015

Classical Mythology

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Classics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

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

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Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game, 540-530 BCE (Terracotta amphora, height 2 feet, Musei Vaticani, Rome).

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Yemenite Torah Scrolls (Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fall 2014

Judaism: The Sacred & The Secular

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

Course supervised by Prof. Jay A. Holstein, J. J. Mallon Chair of Judaic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.



Summer 2014

Sanskrit

Language Instructor for the Summer Language Program of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Chicago, organized at the Deccan College, Pune, India.


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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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Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.8-10, Lalchand Research Library Collection, Chandigarh; Photo by Sarah Welch; Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0).

Fall 2013

Introduction to Sanskrit

Language Instructor for a forum on Iranian Studies and Ancient Iranian Languages at the Khāna-ye Honar, Maydān-i Inqilāb, Tehran, Iran.



Spring 2012

Introduction to Buddhism

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

Course supervised by Prof. Morten Schlütter, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

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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 for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

Course supervised by Prof. Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.  


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