Lav Kanoi is a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer (Anthropology) with the Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture (REEC) Initiative at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Lav Kanoi. Centuries, even millennia ago, communities had a tradition of maintaining water supplies by capturing rainwater, but as cities expanded, construction projects covered up water wells and paved over natural areas of absorption, causing rain to run off into streets and over pavements instead of being harvested for use.

Jun 18, 2024 · Lav Kanoi was profiled by Fran Silverman for Yale School of the Environment’s Canopy Magazine. Lav was the Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Coordinator as well as a member of the 2021 Environmental Humanities Graduate Certificate cohort.

Urban ecology, water, postcolonial studies, history and literature, language and linguistics, India.

Welcome to Lav Kanoi, one of the ISM’s new long-term fellows for the 2024-25 academic year. As a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in the Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative at...

Lav Kanoi's 6 research works with 33 citations and 1,004 reads, including: Myths of Purity and the Miracle of Water by the Banks of the Ganga-Yamuna

Lav Kanoi Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Institute of Sacred Music. South Asian Studies Council . Academic Year: 2024-25 . [email protected]. Website. Related councils & programs. South Asian Studies Council. The South Asian Studies Council at Yale is committed to promoting a comprehensive understanding of historical and contemporary ...

Lav Kanoi is interested in the social-environmental dimensions of cities and urban development. His doctoral dissertation research at the combined Department of Anthropology and School of the Environment PhD program at Yale University centered on changing waterscapes in India’s National Capital Region of Delhi, where, like many other large ...

Feb 7, 2022 · In this study we seek to enlarge what is meant by infrastructure, and therefore extend what is included in discussions of building and/or maintaining infrastructure. There is much at stake in investigating what constitutes infrastructure and what is meant by it.