Frank Korom
145 Bay State Road, Suite 506
Boston, MA 02215
T: 617.358.0185; F: 617.358.3087
E: korom@bu.edu
Fall 2007 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm

Bio
An Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Frank J. Korom received degrees in Religious Studies and Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1984, before pursuing studies in India and Pakistan, where he earned certificates of recognition in a number of modern South Asian languages. He did his graduate work in folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, and was awarded the Ph.D. in 1992 for a dissertation on Dharmaraj, a local village deity worshipped in West Bengal from medieval times to the present. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, a Ford Foundation cultural consultant in India and Bangladesh, and curator of Asian and Middle Eastern collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe prior to his arrival at Boston University in the summer of 1998.

Among his research awards have been grants from the Institute of International Education, the Mellon Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the International Folk Art Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the American Academy of Religion. He is the author and editor of eight books, most recently South Asian Folklore: A Handbook (2006) and A Village of Painters (2006). His earlier book, Hosay Trinidad, won the prestigious Premio Pitre international book award in 2002. He also served as Editor of Religious Studies Review from 2001-2003. In 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in India, where he conducted fieldwork on itinerant scroll painters in rural West Bengal. This project will culminate with a museum exhibition in October of 2006. He is currently a 2006 recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to support the completion of a book tentatively titled Singing Modernity.

His research and teaching interests range from South Asian expressive traditions and contemporary religion to diaspora studies and transnationalism, which is reflected in his work on East Indians in the Caribbean and the global community of Tibetan refugees. He is also interested in film, ritual, and performance studies.

Complete CV

Books

	Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal By Frank Korom Museum of New Mexico Press September 30, 2006 Buy it now from Amazon!
	South Asian Folklore By Frank Korom Greenwood Press April 1, 2006 Buy it now from Greenwood Press!
	Hosay Trinidad By Frank Korom University of Pennsylvania Press November 1, 2002 Buy it now from Amazon.com!
	Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions (South Asian Seminar Series) Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, Margaret A. Mills University of Pennsylvania Press June 1, 1991 Buy it now from Amazon.com!

Courses
RN 103 Religions of the World: Eastern
RN 108 New Age Spirituality
RN 213 Hinduism
RN 375/675 Culture, Society, amd Religion in South Asia
RN 387/687 Anthropology of Religion
RN 388/688 Oral Tradition as Verbal Art
RN 442/742 Approaches to Myth
RN 468/768 Symbol, Myth, and Rite