Dr. Usha Menon

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			Usha Menon, Ph.D.
			Associate Professor of Anthropology
			Office:	MacAlister 5013
			Phone:	(215) 895-1023
			Email:	menonu @ drexel.edu
	RECENT PUBLICATIONS Making 'the Good Life': Oriya Hindu women of the temple town and Subjective Wellbeing.  Manuscript under review (Submitted for publication)  "The Three Selves of Adulthood".  Cultural Anthropology. (Forthcoming) “Dharma and Re-envisioning the Hindu Moral Code” in Volume 3 entitled Psychology and Psychoanalysis, edited by Girishwar Misra, part of the multi-volume Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture under the General Editorship of D. P. Chattopadhaya, Delhi: Centre for Study on Civilizations. September 2009.  “The Hindu child” in The Chicago Companion to the Child.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. March 2009.  “The Hindu Concept of Rasa and the Cultural Psychology of the Emotions” in Psychological Studies, Delhi: NAOP
	RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS: "Shifting Constructions of the Self." Department of Psychology, Delhi University, Delhi, India, July 28, 2009. "Murder in Meriah Country: Ethno-religious Violence in the Kondhmals."  The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India, July 27, 2009. " Feminism  and Cultural Relativism: the Oriya Hindu experience."  The Centre for Developing Societies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, July 24, 2009.
	CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST:: Translating and annotating the Chandi Purana, a 15th Century Oriya language text on Mahadevi, the Great Goddess of Hinduism.