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Candis Haak

Professor Candis Haak

Associate Professor
Internship Coordinator
Director of Digital Humanities Minor

Contact Information

418 Mahar Hall
315-312-3443
[email protected]
Prof. Haak Website

Office hours

Spring 2024

Google Meets Virtual Office hours
M/W 11:30 - 12:30
and By Appointment

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