Julie A. Hanlon
Editor for Indian Studies
Julie A. Hanlon
Editor for Indian Studies
Julie A. Hanlon holds a joint-PhD from the University of Chicago in Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her research program is inherently interdisciplinary and draws upon her academic training in archaeology, epigraphy, religious studies, Tamil language and literature, GIS, and statistical analysis. She has participated in archaeological research projects across the Indian subcontinent and is proficient in both Hindi and Tamil. She has taught courses on the archaeology and history of South Asia, anthropology of India, political economy, and classical Tamil literature. Over the past ten years, Dr. Hanlon has been regularly engaged in the Digital Humanities, using digital tools, programs, and programming language to collect, visualize, and statistically analyze textual and spatial data from archaeological, epigraphical, and literary sources. Her recent work examines the materiality of Tamil texts and inscriptions, and the ways in which the preservation, destruction, and reuse of literature and landscape figured in the formation and negotiation of religious identities during the first millennium.
The Digital Orientalist 