“DANCE IS MY SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO BOTH NATURE AND MY INDIAN HERITAGE. I TRULY CHERISH BEING ABLE TO PRESERVE AND SHARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF CULTURE through dance.”
— SONYA DEVI
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Medical Anthropology
Dance | Folk Medicine
UNIVERSITY
Harvard University Extension School
Master’s in Anthropology (in progress)
CUNY Hunter College ‘12
Bachelor’s in Anthropology
• Biological Anthropology & Lab
• Evolutionary Anatomy & Physiology
• Infection & Disease in Archaeology
• Early & Modern Human Migrations
• Forensic Biology & Lab
• Cultural Anthropology
• Prehistoric Gender Studies
• Linguistic Anthropology
• South Asian Literature
• Human Ecology
UNDERGRAD FIELDWORK
📍Kerala, Tamil Nadu, & New York
Research: South Indian Classical Dance
CURRENT WORK
August 2020 - Present
Cultural Arts Nonprofit