Prof. Dr. Carola Lorea
Curriculum Vitae
February 2026
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Tübingen
July 2024
Habilitation
Venia legendi in Religious studies and Cultural anthropology
October 2023
ERC Synergy grant award
for the project MANTRAMS: Mantras in Religion, Media and Society in Global Southern Asia
Since 2023
Junior Professor for the Study of Religions
‘Rethinking Global Religion’. University of Tübingen, Germany.
2022-2023
Senior Research Fellow
Asia Research Institute – National University of Singapore. Religion and Globalisation Cluster
2020-2021
Chair of AGSF
Asian Graduate Student Fellowship and Singapore Forum on Southeast Asian Studies
2020
Research project CoronAsur
Founding editor of CoronAsur: Religions and COVID-19; PI of collaborative research project "Religion going viral: Pandemic transformations of religious lives and ritual performances in Asia"
2018-2022
ARI Research Fellow
Asia Research Institute – National University of Singapore.
Religion and Globalisation Cluster
2019
Digital Archive "Songs of the Old Madmen"
PI of the Endangered Archives Programme grant EAP1247
2018
Visiting Professor
IAS (Institute for Advanced Studies), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS)
2018
Gonda Research Fellow
J. Gonda fund, Leiden. Research project "Metaphor, Meaning and Oral Exegesis: The Upside-Down Language of the Songs of Sādhanā"
2017
DAAD Research Fellow
University of Heidelberg, Germany. Institute of South Asia.
2016-2017
IIAS Research Fellow
International Institute for Asia Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.
2016
Lecturer of Bengali
Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Rome La Sapienza
2015
PhD in South Asian Studies
(Culture e civilta’ dell’Asia e dell’Africa). Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome – Jadavpur University, Kolkata (jointly supervised).
2010
MA in South Asian Studies
110 cum laude/110 Degree in Oriental Languages and Cultures. Institute of Oriental Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome.