Ravi Gupta
History, Cultures, and Ideas
Department Head
Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 321)Phone: +1 435 797 1196
Email: ravi.gupta@usu.edu
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Educational Background
PhD, Hinduism, University of Oxford, 2004
MA, Study of Religion, University of Oxford, 2000
BA, Philosophy, Boise State University, 1999
BS, Applied Mathematics, Boise State University, 1999
Biography
Dr. Ravi M. Gupta holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He served as Department Head of History for four years, and he now serves as Department Head for the newly-created Department of History, Cultures, and Ideas. He has published numerous journal articles and five academic books, including most recently, Hinduism: the Primary Sources, co-authored with Dr. Jeffery Long and published in 2025 by Oxford University Press. Ravi has received four teaching awards, a book award, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship, and two research fellowships at Oxford. He is a Permanent Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a past president of the Society for Hindu Christian Studies. He enjoys teaching World Religions, Hinduism, Sanskrit, and Religious Studies Theory and Method. Prior to arriving at USU, Ravi taught at the University of Florida, Centre College, and the College of William and Mary. His research focuses on Chaitanya Vaishnava theology and the Bhagavata Purana, about which he is invited to speak at universities and conferences around the world.