Dheepa Sundaram (she/her) is a professor in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Denver, where she specializes in hate politics, performance, ritual and digital culture in South Asian contexts. Her research examines the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics, online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Her current monograph project, Globalizing Dharma: The Making of a Global Hindu Brand, examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a digital canon for Hindu religious praxis, effectively branding religious identities and marketing caste-privileged religious norms as a default, cosmopolitan Hinduism that anchors the Hindu nationalist political project. She is also a contributor to Religion News Service on Hindu perspectives, a founding member of the South Asia Scholar Activist Collective, and a trainer for Sacred Writes (public scholarship training program for religion scholars).
