Deepa Das Acevedo

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law

Regional Focus: US, India
Date of Presentation: Session 8, TBD

Biography:
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist. She received her JD and PhD in Anthropology from The University of Chicago. During the 2020-21 academic year, she is a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Religion and Journalism, courtesy of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Visiting Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She is currently working on a monograph, The Battle for Sabarimala (OUP, forthcoming), about the dispute over gender equality and religious freedom involving the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India. Her scholarly writing has appeared or will appear in, among others, Law & Social Inquiry, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Cornell Law Review Online, the Asian Journal of Law & Society, Modern Asian Studies, as well as in edited volumes by Oxford and Brill. Her public writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Hindustan Times, and Economic & Political Weekly. Deepa’s research has been selected for the Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, the Committee on Southern Asian Studies at The University of Chicago, and the Research Grants Committee at the University of Alabama.