The named professorship acknowledges faculty who have achieved local, national, and international distinction in both teaching and research/creative activity.
Professor Shukla has lectured on material culture, dress, and adornment within the United States, and also in India, Bangladesh, Canada, Israel, and Estonia.
The book features a collection of performer-centered case studies, advancing the methodological and theoretical issues entailed in ethnographic endeavor.
[10] Her fourth book, Sacred Art: Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil was co-authored with Henry Glassie, and published in 2018.
Through close study with artists in the states of Bahia and Pernambuco, the book explores personal creativity and collective religiosity within Catholic and African Candomblé contemporary imagery, in clay, wood, paper, and canvas.