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Susan S. Wadley is Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies at Syracuse University, where she is also director of the South Asia Center and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. she began her work on the folk traditions of India in the late 1960s as a doctoral student in a village in western Utter Pradesh known as Karimpur, made famour in the classic Behind Mud Walls by William and Charlotte Wiser. Her publications include Shakti: Pwoer in the Conceptual Structure of Karimpur Religion; Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 and Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Oral Epic Dhola. She is co-editor of Oral Epic in India as well as Media and Transformation of Religion in south Asia. currently, she is engaged in a project examining the effects of globalization on Karimpur, focusing especially on issues of migraion and consumption, as well as changing gender roles.