birth_place awards main_interests birth_date article_title name partner alma_mater
bozeman , montana unitarian grawemeyer book award -lrb- 1995 -rrb- for '' encountering god universalist : a spiritual journey from bozeman to banaras '' melcher award -lrb- 1994 -rrb- and the religious scholar 1945 diana l. eck
 diana l. eck dorothy austin harvard university
diana l. eck

diana l. eck -lrb- born 1945 in bozeman , montana -rrb- is a scholar of religious studies who is professor of comparative religion and indian studies at harvard university , as well as a master of lowell house and the director of the pluralism project at harvard .
among other works , she is the author of `` banaras , city of light '' , `` darsan : seeing the divine image in india '' , `` encountering god : a spiritual journey from bozeman to banaras '' , and `` a new religious america : how a christian country became the world 's most religiously diverse nation '' .
at harvard , she is in the department of sanskrit and indian studies , the committee on the study of religion , and is also a member of the faculty of divinity .
she has been reappointed the chair for the committee on the study of religion , a position which she held from 1990 to 1998 .
