People

People

  • Puja Sahney
  • Puja Sahney
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • At Rutgers Since: 2019
  • Research / Specialization:
    • Writing and Composition
    • Writing ethnography
    • Hinduism in America
    • Hindu Women’s Domestic Rituals
    • Women and Folklore
    • South Asian Studies
  • Education:
    • Ph.D., Folklore (minor in American Studies), Indiana University, Bloomington
    • M.A., American Studies, Utah State University
    • B.A., English Literature, University of Pune, India
  • Courses Taught:
    • College Writing 101
    • Research in the Disciplines 201
    • Expository Writing 101
    • EAP II
    • 630: Graduate Academic Success in the Disciplines
    • 502: Graduate Writing
    • 506: Writing for Publication
    • 600: Graduate Academic Communication
    • 611: Graduate Writing Studio
  • Publications:
    • “Producing Sacred Space in Secular Kitchens: South Asian Immigrant Women’s Hindu Shrines in American Domestic Architecture.” Material Culture Review, vol. 90-91 (2020): 24-42.
    • “Pavitra Hindu homes: producing sacred purity in domestic diasporic settings.” South Asian History and Culture, vol. 8. 4 (2017): 493-507.
    • “Darsan, Decoration, and Transnational Hindu Homes in the United States.” Asian Ethnology, vol. 75. 2 (2016): 279-302.
    • “Mandir and Visa Status: Purity, Auspiciousness and Hindu Homes in the United States.” Material Religion: Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, vol. 2. 3 (2016): 323-345.
    • “Sakti, Agency, and Control: Power of vrat and Women’s Devotion in Ritual event of Karvachauth From North India.” Midwestern Folklore, vol. 37. 2 (Fall 2011): 60-83.
    • “Hindu Domestic Mandirs: Home Temples in Greater New York.” Voices: Journal of New York Folklore, vol. 36. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2010): 39 – 44.
    • “The Festival of Karvachauth: Its Meaning and Celebration in India and St. John’s, Canada.” Culture & Tradition. Memorial University of Newfoundland, vol. 29 (2007): 8 – 23.
    • “In the Midst of a Monastery: Filming the Making of a Buddhist Sand Mandala in Wappingers Falls, New York.” Voices: Journal of New York Folklore, vol. 32. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2006): 19 – 23.