Kathryn McClymond
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph. D., University of California, Santa Barbara
phone: 404-413-6119
e-mail: kmcclymond(at)gsu.edu
Recipient, 2003 Honors Professor Award
2003-04 American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant
2006 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award
2009 CENCIA Grant
Dr. McClymond is an affiliate faculty member with the Middle East Institute and on the director of the Jewish Studies Program at Georgia State University. She is also affiliated with the Harvard University based Pluralism Project. She currently serves on the sterring committee for the the Comparative Studies of Religion group for the American Academy of Religion.
Area of Interest:
Comparative History of Religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Ritual Theory
Selected Publications:
Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Georgia Writers' Association Author of the Year Award, 2009
"Ritual" in Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods, eds. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (Routledge, 2007)
"You Are Where You Eat: Food, Utopia, and Hindus in America" in Eating in Eden, Martha Finch and Etta Madden, eds., (University of Nebraska Press, 2006).
"The Chosen: Defining Jewish Identity", Shofar (Vol. 25, no.2, Winter 2007).
"Ritual and Power in Monsignor Quixote: A Ritual Studies Approach," Journal of Ritual Studies vol.20, no.1(2006).
"The Nature and Elements of Sacrifice" in Methods and Theory in the Study of Religion 15/3 (2003).
"Death Be Not Proud: Reevaluating the Role of Killing in Sacrifice", The International Journal of Hindu Studies Volume 6, Number 3 (December 2002), 221-242.
"Differing Intentions in Vedic and Jewish Sacrifice", The Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies vol. IV (2001).
