Amod Lele

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

B.A., Geography/Sociology, McGill University
M.S., Developmental Sociology, Cornell University
Ph.D., Religion, Harvard University



E-mail: alele@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508)-565-1000
Office: Duffy, 220-B

With a broad academic background in sociology, religion, and government, Lele has taught classes and seminars such as The Good Life in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Sexuality in Indian Religions, and Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies at Colorado College and Harvard University.

Additionally, Lele has served as a teaching assistant at Cornell University, was a graduate writing fellow at Harvard, and has received the Language Training Fellowship at Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

Lele's language comprehension and fluency are in Sanskrit (including Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit), Pali, French and German. His research and expertise in South Asian religions and Buddhism and in classical Indian ethics and soteriology augments the strong curriculum in Stonehill's Religious Studies Department.