Tulasi Srinivas

Tulasi Srinivas is an Indian religious studies scholar and anthropologist. She was a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work includes Winged Faith and The Goddess in the Mirror (2024). She is Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies at the Emerson College Marlboro Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. and Rukmini Srinivas, a geography professor and cookbook writer. A native of Bangalore, she obtained a BA in architecture from Bangalore University and an MA in urban studies from the University of Southern California.

Srinivas originally taught at Wheaton College and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, before she started working at Emerson College, where she eventually became a full professor. She is also a fellow of the Indian Sociological Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. and The Wire, and she has frequently appeared as an expert on NPR and NBC News. In April 2011, she provided an obituary of the mystic Sathya Sai Baba to The American Magazine. She has criticized the Michelin Guide as "Eurocentric and elitist", citing a lack of representation of African and Indian restaurants. She has also worked as an advisor to climate justice non-profit Bhumi and as an expert in global inequality and faith for the World Economic Forum. Her sister Lakshmi is a sociologist who works at UM Boston. Curried Cultures: Food, Globalization and South Asia (2012) Wonder in South Asia: Politics, Aesthetics, Ethics (2023)