Calynn Dowler

Dr. Calynn Dowler is a cultural anthropologist whose research explores human-water relationships in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Climate and Environmental Studies at Vanderbilt University. Thinking with and through water’s relational qualities, her current book project traces changing relationships with aquatic ecologies in a multifaith community of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. She is especially interested in water cosmologies and more-than-human relations; religion and moral economy; and climate change. Calynn teaches courses in the anthropology of religion, environmental anthropology, and South Asian Studies.