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Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research specialties include ethics, anthropology and philosophy, the state, poverty, violence, and South Asia. Before moving to Johns Hopkins, she taught at the Delhi School of Economics for more than 30 years and also held a joint appointment at the New School for Social Research from 1997 to 2000. She is the author of such books as Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia (1990), which was one of the first works to bring issues of violence within an anthropological study of South Asia. She received the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1995, and she is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences. Das completed her Ph.D. in 1970.