Ann Grodzins Gold

Ann Grodzins Gold is the Thomas J. Watson Professor Emerita of Religion and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. Gold is known for her research on ethnographic engagement with religion and culture in provincial North India.

Career Gold attended University of Chicago where she earned B.A., M.A., and PhD. in anthropology. She spent eight years at Cornell University and joined the faculty at Syracuse University in 1993, until her retirement. In 2011, she was named the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. Gold was also named the fellow of the National Humanities Center in 2014.

Books Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (1988 & 2000) Waveland Press. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (1994 ) University of California Press In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan (2002). Duke University Press Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India (2017) University of Pennsylvania Press.