Editing Hosay Trinidad (section)

== About the author ==
[[Frank J. Korom]], is a professor of Religion and Anthropology at Boston University. He received degrees in Religious Studies and Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1984, before pursuing studies in India and Pakistan, where he earned certificates of recognition in a number of modern South Asian languages. He did his graduate work in folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, and was awarded the Ph.D. in 1992 for a dissertation on Dharmaraj, a local village deity worshipped in West Bengal from medieval times to the present. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, a Ford Foundation cultural consultant in India and Bangladesh, and curator of Asian and Middle Eastern collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe prior to his arrival at Boston University in the summer of 1998.

Among his research awards have been grants from the Institute of International Education. He is the author and editor of eight books, the most recent one being South Asian Folklore: A Handbook (2006) and A Village of Painters (2006). He also served as Editor of Religious Studies Review from 2001-2003. In 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in India. In 2006 he was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to support the completion of a new book tentatively titled Singing Modernity. Currently, he is researching transnational Sufism, with a focus on Sri Lanka as a point of origin.