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David Brick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, specializing in Sanskrit literature and pre-modern Indian studies. He joined the faculty on August 13, 2018 and is affiliated with the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS).
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Professor Brick's research centers on the classical Hindu legal tradition known as Dharmaśāstra, with particular expertise in widow-related practices including sati (widow-burning) and widow-asceticism, inheritance law, judicial ordeals, ritual expiation systems, and gift-giving traditions. His scholarly approach combines textual analysis of Sanskrit and Prakrit literature with insights from anthropology to illuminate social history in ancient and medieval India.
His major publications include Brahmanical Theories of the Gift: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Dānakāṇḍa of the Kṛtyakalpataru (2015, Harvard Oriental Series), which provides the first critical edition and complete translation of a dānanibandha text, and Widows Under Hindu Law (2023, Oxford University Press), the first comprehensive study of widows' treatment within Dharmaśāstra literature.
Professor Brick is currently collaborating with Patrick Olivelle on a diplomatic edition and annotated translation of an early commentary on the Yājñavalkya Dharmaśāstra, and is working on an English translation of the Anuśāsana Parvan (thirteenth book of the Mahābhārata) for the University of Chicago Press's Mahābhārata Translation Series.
Teaching:
- Yearlong introductory and intermediate Sanskrit language sequences
- Survey course on ancient Indian history
- Courses on Hinduism and early Indian literature and religion
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