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Ginette Ishimatsu

Background:

Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Ishimatsu is Chair of the Religious Studies Department and Associate Professor of Hindu studies, specializing in South Indian temple ritual traditions. She is also the Director of the Asian Studies program, which she helped found. 

She teaches courses on South and East Asian religions, as well as seminars on ritual and on the relationship between food and religion.