Anthony Cerulli

Expert on the history and anthropology of medicines and religions in India.

Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures College of Letters and Science Work: 608-262-3915 acerulli@wisc.edu Home page

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My research and teaching explore the interface of medicine, religion, and the body in South Asia.
I do ethnographic, historical, and philological research to explain how and why people do things with texts to heal and promote wellbeing.
My research also contributes to the medical humanities and examines links between art-making and ethnography.

For the 2025-26 academic year, I have been named Artist-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
In 2022, my second book, THE PRACTICE OF TEXTS, came out with the University of California Press, supported by a grant from the NEH.
In 2022, 23 images from "Manuscriptistan" were featured in two French publications: L’ARTHAŚĀSTRA and LE BULLETIN DES BELLES LETTRES.
In the 2021-22 academic year, I was the Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality at the Kluge Center (Library of Congress).
In 2015, I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in South Asian Studies.