Rachel Fell McDermott

Rachel Fell McDermott is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author and editor of several books on Hindu Goddess traditions, and she is also keenly interested in Comparative Theology. Her most recent book, co-authored with Daniel Polish, is A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue (Lexington, 2024). Her current project engages Hindu-Muslim relations in Bengal and Bangladesh.