Faculty
Gil Ben-Herut
Professor & Department Chair
contact
Email: gilb@usf.edu
Office: CPR 468A
Gil Ben-Herut is a Professor of South Asian Religions and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. His research explores Hindu narratives, South Asian devotional (bhakti) traditions, translation of premodern religious literature in the Kannada language, sainthood and hagiography, and coding tools for Digital Humanities.
Awards
In 2023, Dr. Ben-Herut was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award and the Senior Short Term Research Grant of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) for his current project "A History of Speaking: Poetry, Orality, and Authority in Kannada Devotional Literature."
In 2020, he was awarded the Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award of the University of South Florida, the 2020 Best Book Award, Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), and the Digital Scholarship Grant by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS).
In 2019, he received the Award for Best First Book of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) and the Carnegie-Whitney Grant of the American Library Association (ALA).
In 2018 he was awarded the Collaborative International Research Grant of the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
For more information about Dr. Ben-Herut's work, please visit his personal website.