Candis Haak

Research

• Early Medieval to Early Modern South Asia
• South Asian Sacred Spaces
• Hindu empires and religious institutions
• Religious Materiality in South Asia
• Digital Humanities
• Deathways and landscapes of the dead

Publications

• "A Digital Analysis of an Early Medieval Cultic and Ritual Change in Hampi: The Mula Virupaksha Temple in the Hemakuta Hill Sacred Space." Histories 2022, 2, 315-333.
  https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/2/3/23/htm

  "An Early Medieval Śaiva Pilgrimage Landscape: The Persistence of Pampa and Bhairava in the Hemakuta Hill Sacred Space, 800-1325 CE." Religions 2022, 13, 569.
  https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/6/569/htm

  “Landscapes of Movement and Historical Spatial Literacy.” In L. Bourdeau, P. Marcotte & M.H. Saidi (eds) Tourism, Roads & Cultural Identities: Meaning, Memory & Development / Routes touristiques et itinéraires culturels, entre mémoire et développement.  Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2013. [with Heather M.-L. Miller]

  “Time, Place, and Experience: Spatial Literacy Tools in the Undergraduate Class.” Esri’s GIS in Education. Toronto: ESRI, 2013. 

Awards and honors

• Fellowship of the Mellon / John E. Sawyer Seminar on “Religious Materiality in the Indian Ocean World, 1300-1800” (Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, 2014-20-16)
• India-Canada Association Scholarship, Center for South Asian Studies (University of Toronto, 2012)
• General Motors Women in Science Award (2012)

Education

• Ph.D. University of Toronto 
• M.A. University College Dublin
• B.A. University of Toronto

Classes taught

• History and Civilization in South Asia
• South Asian Sacred Spaces
• World History in the 20th Century