Ethnologie

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.