#  Miki Chase 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and South Asian Religions

WSRP Research Associate 2025–26

 

 

 



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## Education

- MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

## Profile

Miki Chase is Assistant Professor in South Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds the Śrī Anantnāth Endowed Chair in Jain Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on intersections of religion, law, and gender in questions of care around death and dying in India, with a specific focus on Jainism. Her 2025–26 WSRP research project is “The Ambiguity of the Vow: Law, Kinship, and Gender in Pathologizing the Jain Fast Until Death.” For more information, please see her [profile page](https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/people/miki-chase) on the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program website.

## Courses

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