Daniel Michon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Computer Science/Data Science Committee, Faculty Advisor to SASA, the South Asian Student Association, Administration Committee

Department

Religious Studies

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

Michon, Daniel and D. A. Smith, To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India 1731-1734, London: Routledge, 2020.

Michon, Daniel, Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India: History, Theory, Practice. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2015.

Michon, Daniel and Ahmed El Antably, "It's Hard to Be Down When You're Up: Interpreting Cultural Heritage through Alternative Media," International Journal of Heritage Studies 19, no. 1 (2013): 16-40.

Michon, Daniel, "Pre-Angkor Khmer Religion and State," Religion Compass 5, no. 1 (2011): 28-36.

Michon, Daniel, "The Excavations at Sanghol in Context," in Sanghol and the Archaeology of Punjab, edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2010): 69-

Michon, Daniel, "Searching for Alexander and Buddha: A History of the Exploration and Archaeology of the Early Historic Period in Punjab to 1900," in Sanghol and the Archaeology of Punjab, edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2010): 20-45.

Bhatti, Harvinder S. and Daniel Michon, "Punjabi Folk Religion," Journal of Punjab Studies 11, no. 2 (2004): 139-154.

Michon, Daniel, "Mapping the World: Mahabharata VIII 30 and the Hermeneutics of Place," International Journal of Punjab Studies 9, no. 2 (2002):163-189.