After providing over ten years of invaluable service at the heart of Hindu Studies in Oxford, the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), Prof. Gavin Flood, will be leaving Oxford University, to take up a chair in Comparative Religion at the National University of Singapore.
Prof. Flood has produced three books, The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism; The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation; and The Importance of Religion: Meaning In Our Strange World. He was also the Consulting Editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014.
Prof. Flood expressed, “I leave the OCHS in excellent health and with great potential. There is a core of young scholars ready to take on the mantle of Hindu Studies at Oxford and I look forward to seeing their progress. I am to remain in close contact with the OCHS and look forward to coming back for conferences, research projects, and to see old friends.”
Shaunaka Rishi Das, OCHS Director, stated that Prof. Flood “embodies rigorous scholarship with the virtues that implies. He has been a kind friend to staff and scholars at the Centre and an excellent guide to his students. He has played a vital role in setting and achieving our high academic standards.”
