College:
Balliol College
Course:
DPhil in Oriental Studies (Sanskrit)
Contact:
barbora.sojkova@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Educational Background:
• 2018- DPhil candidate in Oriental Studies (Sanskrit)
Leverhulme Doctoral School “Publication Beyond Print”
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Minkowski
• 2017-2018 MPhil candidate in Classical Indian Religions, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Minkowski
• 2013-2016 MA in Religious Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Thesis: "Ritual Remnant (Ucchiṣṭa) in Vedic Ritual"
Supervisor: Lubomir Ondracka
• 2016 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Historich-vergleichende Sprachwisseschaft, Visiting Student
• 2009-2013 BA in Religious Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Thesis: "Talking Heads: Comparative and Structural Analysis of Myths of Vital Severed Heads"
Research Interests:
Vedic religion, Brahmanism, Animal Studies, Ritual Studies, Anthropology of religion, Anthropocene, Post-colonialism, History of Indology, Indo-European linguistics
Recent Publications and/or Conferences:
“Fertility in Vedic Ritual: Towards a New Interpretation of Ucchiṣṭa”, conference paper presented on the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, Canada (July 2017)
