Margherita and her dissertation committee in Chicago, from left to right, E. Annamalai, Sascha Ebeling and Whitney Cox.

On 25 November 2019, Margherita Trento, a Śivadharma team member and currently a postdoc at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. The dissertation, titled “Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-century Tamiḻakam,” explores the social history of Catholic literature in Tamil in the precolonial period.

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