Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger (B.A., Radcliffe; Ph. D., Harvard University; D. Phil., Oxford University) in 1984 was elected President of the American Academy of Religion, in 1989 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1996 a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1997 President of the Association for Asian Studies. She teaches at the University of Chicago and is the author of over forty books, including Siva: The Erotic Ascetic (1973), The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was (2005), The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009), On Hinduism (2013), Hinduism in the Norton Anthology of World Religions (2015), Redeeming the Kamasutra (2016), and The Ring of Truth: Tales of Sex and Jewelry (2017).