Background
Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar was born on September 15, 1974 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Son of Chandrashekhar Gangadhar and Uma Chandrashekhar Oka.
Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar was born on September 15, 1974 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Son of Chandrashekhar Gangadhar and Uma Chandrashekhar Oka.
Bachelor cum laude, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1997. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois-Chicago and Field Museum, 2008.
Assistant professor, anthropology University Notre Dame, Indiana, since 2009. Postdoctoral fellow Kellogg Institute International Studies, Notre Dame, since 2009, Society Applied Anthropology, Washington, since 2010. Research associate Field Museum Natural History, Chicago, since 2010.
Fellow: Society Applied Anthropology. Member: Society Africanist Archaeologists, Society of America Archaeology, Society Economic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
Married Vania Smith.