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Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Doniger's research and teaching focus on translating, interpreting, and comparing elements of Hinduism through modern contexts of gender, sexuality, and identity. She is past president of the American �����Ƶ of Religion (1984) and the Association for Asian Studies (1997). She was awarded the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for excellence in multi-cultural literature, non-fiction, for Splitting the Difference (2000).