P. (Peter) Berger, Dr

Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion

Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society

Telephone:

+31 50 36 35587

E-mail:

p.berger rug.nl

Homepage ORCID Research Portal

PhD supervision (ongoing):

Ashutosh Kumar (with Roland Hardenberg)

Nidhi Trivedi (with Roland Hardenberg)

Suneet Kumar (with Roland Hardenberg)

Indhubala Kesavan (with Roland Hardenberg)

PhD supervision (completed):

Saara Toukolehto (with Marjo Buitelaar)

Lea Schulte-Droesch (with Kocku von Stuckrad)

ongoing research projects:

2021

(applicants Peter Berger/René Cappers, UG, project partner Roland Hardenberg) NWO Free Competition: Salvage Crops, “Savage” People: A comparative anthropological and archaeobotanical investigation of Millet Assemblages in India

2021

(project partners Berger, Cappers, Dagyeli; applicant and PI R. Hardenberg) DFG C 04 of Collaborative Research Centre 1070 on ResourceCultures: ResourceCultures of Rice and Millets in South and Central Asia: Religious and (agro)economic Dimensions of Cereals

2020

(project partners Berger, Cappers; applicant and PI R. Hardenberg) German Research Foundation (DFG) "From “poor man’s food” to “nutri-cereals”: emergence of a new millet assemblage in Odisha, India”.

completed research projects:

2015

(with Sarbeswar Sahoo, IIT Delhi) Gratama Foundation: Modalities of Conversion in India

7/2003 - 4/2005 and 5/1999 - 9/2001

research funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), title of research project: " Umstrittene Zentren: Konstruktion und Wandel sozio-kultureller Identitäten in der indischen Region Orissa"

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