Joyce Flueckiger

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is an American anthropologist who specializes in the intersection of religious studies and gender studies. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several gender studies books on Indian culture. She worked as a professor at Emory University until 2021. Biography Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger was born to Ramoth Isabel ( Lowe) and Edward Burkhalter, who were both missionaries for the Mennonite Commission on Overseas Mission. Raised in India during her youth, She obtained her BA in English at Goshen College and her PhD in South Asian Language and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her doctoral dissertation Study of a Central Indian Folklore Region: Chhattisgarh was supervised by Velcheru Narayana Rao. After an unsuccessful search for Hindi language-related jobs, she was inspired to go into anthropology after doing research for what would become her book Amma's Healing Room more than a decade later. She retired from Emory in August 2021 and was promoted to Professor Emerita of Religion.

Flueckiger's work specializes in the intersection of religious studies and gender studies. as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of her 2020 book Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds.