Moumita Sen is an Associate Professor of Culture Studies and project lead for ERC Starting grant 2023-28 Political Deification: Theorising from Asia and for RCN researcher project 2020-24 ‘Mythopolitics in South Asia´. Her forthcoming monograph Mythopolitics in India: Caste, Religion, and Politics is based on her postdoctoral research which focuses on the intersection of aesthetic discourse, popular religiosity, and organized politics in caste activism India. Her larger research interest is in the field of Indian visual culture. Her doctoral dissertation (2016), received the Norwegian king’s gold medal for outstanding research in 2017. She is the co-editor of Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY, 2018). Sen is a founder member of the popular research platform and collective ‘Theory from the Margins’.

Anni Karin Rambek is an advisor and works as the administrative officer for the ERC Starting Grant 2023-28 on Political Deification: Theorising from Asia. She is also an advisor in student and research administration at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society. She holds an integrated master's degree in Foreign Language Teacher Education (French) from the University of Bergen.