Dr Janaki Nair
Janaki Nair is researching semiotics in ancient cultural and religious practices using visual anthropological methods. She is a documentary film maker and also a member of OCHS Sakta traditions research project.
Archives: Team Members
Prema Goet
Prema is a multi-disciplinary researcher in the culture and languages of South Asia. He holds a degree in South Asian Studies and Sanskrit from SOAS, where he also obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy and Religion (Traditions of Yoga and Meditation). Prema works with practitioners from India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, documenting and producing works on tantric rituals, the worship of Goddess(es), and yogic practices. He is a documentary researcher for the OCHS Sākta Traditions project.
Dr Alan Herbert
With a D.Phil. in Theology and Religion at Oxford, Alan is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. His current projects include philosophical approaches to the Vaiṣṇava concept of God and the intersection between Hinduism and secular society.
Prof. Gavin Flood
Author of The Tantric Body, the definitive text on Tantra. Prof. Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University, Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, and Yap Kim Hao Visiting Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS Singapore.
Dr Lucian Wong
Lucian Wong is a Post-Doctoral fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), University of Oxford, UK and is Co-Director of the Bengali Vaiṣṇavism in the Modern Period Project of the OCHS.
Danny MacGregor
Danny is an independent film maker, camera operator, and DP. He started his career in the industry as a child actor, finally moving into the technical side of film making in 2010. His talent is to tell engaging stories, factual or fictional, with strong visual images.
Richard Coldman
Richard Coldman, who produced our Sanskrit course videos, is a British filmmaker/musician/composer. In addition to shooting, directing and editing documentaries, he has developed a specialization in arts collaborations – in particular his animations of paintings by Alexander Gorlizki, educational video productions featuring choreographers Shobana Jeyasingh and Richard Alston, projections for live performances with Tracy Emin, V-TOL Dance Company and Dominic Murcott’s No Orchestra and a film for the South Bank Centre with poet Lavinia Greenlaw. Coldman considers Asian meditative, somatic and energy practices over an almost 40 year period to have been influential in developing the technical and interpersonal skills necessary for his work.
Dr Jessica Frazier
Dr Jessica Frazier has degrees in Sanskrit, Religious Studies, and Philosophy of Religion from Oxford and Cambridge. Dr Frazier edits the Journal of Hindu Studies and teaches Hinduism and other religious traditions at Oxford University. She recently published Reality, Religion, and Passion, a comparison of Western and Indian approaches to religious truth.
