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Professor Vineeta Sinha assumed the position of Director of ARI on 1 January 2026.

She is Professor of Anthropology in the NUS Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research focuses on Hindu religiosity in the diaspora, religion-state encounters, religion, commodification and consumption processes, Hinduism’s entanglement with materiality and visuality, histories of Sociology and Anthropology, critical pedagogy, women’s structural location and leadership in academia and decolonising knowledge production. As an ethnographer, her research has focused on how Hindu communities in Singapore and Malaysia negotiate inherited traditions even as they creatively produce novel religious imaginaries in urban, diasporic sites.