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Graduate Student
B.Mus., Montclair State University, 1996
M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005
U of M Affiliation(s)
Center for South Asian Studies
Contact Information
University of Michigan
Email: ktott@umich.edu |
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Fields of Study
Religion and modernity in colonial India
About Kirk Thomas Ott
Kirk Thomas Ott completed undergraduate majors in Music and Religious Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, and then, nine years later, took his M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado. Much of the intervening period is shrouded in mystery, but finally his life seems to have settled on a respectable track, having entered the PhD program in Asian Languages and Cultures in Fall 2005.
His interests are in religion in colonial India, particularly in relation to Dravidian identity; and in theories of religion in modern thought, particularly as shaped by cultural encounter between India and Europe. Kirk has studied Sanskrit for a thousand days, including an AIIS Summer Intensive at Deccan College in Pune (2004), and now studies Tamil with Dr. K. Karunakaran, as well as attending the Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture in summer of 2006. Back in Ann Arbor, he earns his union wages as the GSI for Introduction to Hinduism, and is the first Michigan advisee of Dr. Srilata Raman.
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