91711 Cynthia Ann Humes received her Ph.D. in Asian Religion from the School of Religion at the University of Iowa in 1990. An associate professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, Humes also directs the college's Teaching Resource Center and the Women's Studies sequence.
Humes is the recipient of numerous awards.
In 1986, she studied Hindi in North India on a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. Hindu Religion in Cultural Context, which went into a second printing in India. She has contributed essays to numerous volumes, and has completed two manuscript projects. Humes edited the first English translation of the Hindi and Sanskrit discourses by Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the guru of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Everyday Teachings of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, L. B. Shriver, general editor.