Dr. Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of Hindu Studies at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. She is a scholar of hate politics, ritual, nationalism, and digital culture in South Asian contexts. Her research focuses the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Her current monograph project titled Globalizing Dharma: The Making of a Global Hindu Brand examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a new, digital canon for Hindu religious praxis, effectively "branding" religious identities and promoting a cosmopolitan, middle-class Hinduism
