About the
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Mathew N. Schmalz received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago. He is presently an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He first studied in India as a student on the University of Wisconsin Program in Varanasi in 1987 and has spent a total of four years in North India. His most recent research focuses on Catholic communities in rural North India. He is the husband of Kristin Steinmetz and father to the newly born Anna Teresa Schmalz.
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Peter Gottschalk has spent three years in South Asia, first visiting India following his graduation from the College of the Holy Cross. Curious about issues regarding religious interpretaion, narrative, and identity, he obtained an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the History of Religions. He teaches at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Peter's book, Beyond Hindu and Muslim, challenges presumptions about religious conflict in India by exploring stories told in the area around Arampur -- the village on which "A Virtual Village" is based.
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