Arlin Levitt

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Advisor: Fred Smith Area of Study: Ancient and Modern India, Yoga, Gandhi, Buber Degree Goal: Ph.D. Status in Program: Coming up on Comps. Have been spotted in the following locals: Selling Ice Cream on Cape Cod; meeting with revolutionary cells in Estonia; watching friends die after gang warfare; harvesting fruit from my apple, pear, peach and cherry trees; studying liberation theology in Columbia; being robbed while white-water rafting on the Ganges; playing dodge ball with my four year old; meeting with Ortega in Nicaragua; driving a big truck on Ragbri; hanging out with the wife; teaching yoga to thousands of unsuspecting disciples; sitting in the back yard watching the leaves fall. Research Interests: India; Yogic theory; Ritual Theory and Practice; Environmental ethics; religion and society; Judaism. Dissertation Topic: Rethinking Community: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Buber--Their Utopian Visions then and their communities that cotinue to the present.