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Rehanna Kheshgi
Rehanna Kheshgi is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on gender, sexuality and the body at the intersections of popular, folk and sacred music and dance performance in India. She teaches at St Olaf College in Minnesota and is currently working on a book that explores contemporary performances of gender and sexuality through Bihu, the springtime Assamese New Year’s festival. Kheshgi’s research has been recognized with support from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Association for University Women, the Fulbright Programme (2017–18 Fulbright-Nehru postdoctoral scholar) and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University (2016–17 fellow).
Contact: St Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057, USA.