Whitney Cox, University of Chicago
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois
wmcox@uchicago.edu
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(773) 834-0772
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Whitney Cox is an Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. His principal interest lies in Sanskrit language and literature, coupled with long-term investment in premodern Tamil, and in the cultural, political, and social history of far sout...
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Whitney Cox is an Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. His principal interest lies in Sanskrit language and literature, coupled with long-term investment in premodern Tamil, and in the cultural, political, and social history of far southern India. His recent research has touched on a wide spectrum of issues, including the political history of the major imperial dynasty of the medieval Tamil country; the centuries-long connections between the southern reaches of the subcontinent and the valley of Kashmir in the northwest; the transformations of late-medieval textual scholarship; Sanskrit and Tamil literary theory; modes of premodern historical writing in Sanskrit; and the pan-Indic traditions of the tantric worship of the Hindu deity Shiva. Cox took his BA at the University of Virginia (History/Religious Studies, 1996); his graduate work at Chicago led to a PhD in 2006. After two years working at the University of Pennsylvania, he took up a position at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London, where he worked from 2006 until 2013. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Berlin-based Working Group Zukunftsphilologie. He has previously held awards from Fulbright-Hayes, the British Academy, and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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