Articles by Amy Allocco
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Amy Allocco presents new research at the European Conference on South Asian Studies in Germany
October 21, 2025
In a paper focused on musical, ritual and technological innovations among multiple generations of Hindu drummer-priests, Allocco shared findings from her recently completed sabbatical field research in Tamil-speaking South India.
Professor of Religious Studies Amy Allocco publishes new book on trends in Hindu ritual
October 13, 2025
The co-edited project includes contributions from 13 authors on changing practices in India and beyond. Amy Allocco also contributed a chapter to the collection and co-authored the book’s Introduction.
Amy Allocco elected treasurer and executive at the International Association for the History of Religions World Congress
September 3, 2025
In addition to being elected as Treasurer, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Multifaith Scholars Program Amy Allocco also presented research and chaired meetings at the 23rd Quinquennial World Congress in Kraków, Poland.
Amy Allocco invited to deliver five lectures in Europe in Spring 2022
May 31, 2022
While teaching at Elon’s Center in London this past semester, Allocco presented her research at universities in four countries
Amy Allocco presents paper as part of double panel at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 2, 2021
Allocco worked with Xenia Zeiler to organize the two linked panels, “Intensification vs. Sweetening? New Patterns in Contemporary Hindu Representation and Practice,” as one outcome of the Collaborative International Research Grant they were awarded by the American Academy of Religion
Amy Allocco delivers an invited lecture at the University of Tübingen
December 14, 2020
The lecture, “Living with the Dead in Hindu South India,” draws on Allocco’s current ethnographic research project and was sponsored by the Asia-Orient Institute.
Amy Allocco publishes a co-edited double issue of the journal ‘Fieldwork in Religion’
November 9, 2020
The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.
Amy Allocco publishes an article on Hindu death, deification, and domestication narratives in The Journal of Hindu Studies
October 26, 2020
Allocco’s article draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research and interviews with one Hindu family in South India to explore the hermeneutical issues – what Allocco calls “interpretive ambivalence” – that arise from narrative multiplicity.
Amy Allocco is named co-coordinator of the International Association for the History of Religion Women Scholars Network
October 12, 2020
Allocco will serve for a five-year term alongside Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and lead a women's mentoring initiative among members of the Women Scholars Network.
Amy Allocco is awarded a Collaborative International Research Grant
February 14, 2020
Amy Allocco has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to support joint fieldwork in India, a symposium, and a special journal issue with a colleague from the University of Helsinki.