# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gavin-flood
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:33:58.535Z

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name: "Gavin Flood"
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description: "Gavin Dennis Flood is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.\nFrom October 2005 through December 2015, he served in the Faculty of Theology University of Oxford and as the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies which is a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford. In 2008, Flood was granted the title of professor of Hindu studies and comparative religion from the University of Oxford. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2016, Flood became the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is a senior research fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump