Teaching
Syllabi
Professor Truschke teaches a wide range of courses on South Asian history and religions at Rutgers University-Newark; check out her recent syllabi.
History of South Asia II, Rutgers-Newark, Spring 2024, syllabus
Religion, Politics, and Society, Spring 2024. syllabus
History of South Asia I, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 2023, syllabus
South Asian Religions, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 2023, syllabus
History of Hinduism, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 2021 (remote course), here
Archiving COVID-19, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 2020 (remote course), here
Muslim Lives, Rutgers-Newark, Spring 2020, here
Religion, Identity, & Power in Modern South Asia, Rutgers-Newark, Spring 2017, here
Pedagogy
Teaching about Hindu traditions
“Imaginative Outsiders: Empowering Undergraduates to Analyze Religion,” in “Forum: Insiders, Outsiders, and Disclosure in the Undergraduate Classroom.” Teaching Theology & Religion. 19.3 (2016): 282-286. download
2023 Article by Professor Truschke titled “Hearing Hindu Stories” that explores why Hindu traditions continue to be marginalized in the modern academy.
Teaching about COVID-19
A unique class, offered in fall 2020, that archived the pandemic in real time
Full website on this unique course.
Highlights
Interview with Professor Truschke about journaling as a way to create valuable historical records of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dec 3, 2020. here
Discussion of Professor Truschke’s Archiving COVID-19 class in Vox article on journaling during the pandemic, November 9, 2020. here.
“Pedagogy and the Pandemic: Professor Audrey Truschke Meets the Moment,” October 26, 2020. here.
Discussant on COVIDCalls, “Teaching COVID-19,” September 4, 2020. video and audio only
