Talk:Prof. Cynthia Franklin

By Sachi Anjunkar

Cynthia Franklin is a professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa as of April 2024.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

In 2016, she signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications

1. Franklin, Cynthia, and Laura Lyons. From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers. Life Writing, vol. 5, 2008, pp. 237-250, doi:10.1080/14484520802386733.
2. Spivak, Gayatri, Laura Lyons, and Cynthia Franklin. On the Cusp of the Personal and the Impersonal: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Biography, vol. 27, 2004, pp. 203-221, doi:10.1353/bio.2004.0038.
3. Franklin, Cynthia, and Laura Lyons. Bodies of Evidence and the Intricate Machines of Untruth. Biography, vol. 27, 2004, pp. v-xxii, doi:10.1353/bio.2004.0031.
4. Franklin, Cynthia, and Laura Lyons. Land, Leadership, and Nation: Haunani-Kay Trask on the Testimonial Uses of Life Writing in Hawai'i. Biography, vol. 27, 2004, pp. 222-249, doi:10.1353/bio.2004.0032.
5. Franklin, Cynthia. Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies. 1997.
6. Franklin, Cynthia G. Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea. 1st ed., Fordham University Press, 2023. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2299522.