Kashi Gomez

Kashi Gomez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As a scholar of South Asia, she specializes in intellectual history, gender, and early modernity. Her current book project is titled Half of a Body: Gender, Desire, and Brahmins in the Eighteenth Century. The book examines two contemporaneous projects of Brahminical ideological production related to sex, gender, and desire in Maratha-ruled Tanjavur between 1676 and 1735.

Select Publications

“Sanskrit and the Labour of Gender in Early Modern South India.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 1 (2023), 167-194. doi:10.1017/S0026749X21000640.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

M.A., University of California, Berkeley

B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Academic Appointments

2025- Present

University of Pennsylvania, Department of South Asia Studies, Assistant Professor

2022-2025

University of Pennsylvania, Department of South Asia Studies, Lecturer in Sanskrit