Daniel Michon, Ph.D.
Department
Education
Bowdoin College, BA John Carroll University, MEd University of California, Santa Barbara, MA and PhD
Awards and Affiliations
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship, Goa, India (2017)
National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, Virtual Taxila, (2009-2010)
Raimundo Pannikar Award for Academic Excellence in the Study of Comparative Religions in South Asia, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, India (2003-2005)
Research and Publications
Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa Mónica, Goa, India. Introduction and Edited by Daniel Michon. Translation by Daniel Michon and D. A. Smith. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. Toronto: Iter Press, forthcoming in Fall 2024/Winter 2025.
To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India 1731-1734, Introduction and Edited by Daniel Michon. Translated by Daniel Michon and D. A. Smith. London: Routledge, 2021.
Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India: History, Theory, Practice. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2015 (re-issued in paperback November 2017).
“Spaces of Dis/Harmony in Colonial Goa: Lefebvre’s Spatial Dynamics and the Convent of Santa Mónica, 1606-1740,” Ler História, 2024, vol. 84: 1-23.
“It’s Hard to Be Down When You’re Up: Interpreting Cultural Heritage through Alternative Media,” with Ahmed El Antably, International Journal of Heritage Studies 19, no. 1 (2013): 16-40.