Prof. Dr. Dusan Deak

Dr. Dusan Deak is working as Associate Professor in Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, at the Department of Comparative Religion. He works on social history of South Asian religious communities, particularly those of the Deccan and its Marathi speaking areas. Among the areas of his research interests are mainly social and religious traditions and developments that pertain to the presence of the Muslims in rural areas of Maharashtra, to their saints and their followers, all from the perspectives of history, history from below, memory studies, and anthropology of religion. Contact Prof.