# Prof. Nancy M. Martin >![[nancy-martin.jpg]] > > *she/her* > > Professor Emerita of Religious Studies > Chapman University (USA) ## Conference Participation - **Paper:** [[Bhakti Voices - From Song to Text in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India]] - **Session:** [[Session 1. Networks & Canonisation]] - **Presentation Mode:** online ## Profile Nancy M. Martin is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Chapman University and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Coming to Chapman in 1995, she served as chair of the Department of Religious Studies from 2011 to 2024. Dr. Martin's areas of expertise include devotional Hinduism, comparative religious ethics, and gender and religion. Her monograph Mirabai: The Making of a Saint (Oxford University Press 2023) is the first volume of what will be a three-volume comprehensive work on the saint, the culmination of more than three decades of research. This monograph details narratives and characterizations of Mirabai from the earliest available manuscripts to the cusp of Indian independence as she emerges as both a saint and cultural heroine. Subsequent volumes will explore the song traditions associated with her across five centuries again from the earliest written traces to print collections, oral traditions, recordings and translations and her movement into popular culture in post-colonial India as well as the global embrace of this dynamic and powerful sixteenth-century woman. Prof. Martin’s recent publications include “Hinduism for Women: Present and Future Prospects for Socio-Spiritual Emancipation,” in Women in World Religions: Exploring the Future, edited by Arvind Sharma (Springer 2024) and “The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir,” in Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture, edited by June McDaniel and Antoinette DeNapoli (MDPI 2024). ## Links [Researcher's Profile](https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/nancy-martin.aspx) ### Contact [email protected]