Cynthia Ann Humes is a professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. The college lists her research interests as: History of Hinduism in America, Modern Hindu Goddess Worship, and Gender and Religion. She is also an author, the college's Chief Technology Officer and a Commissioner on the Claremont City Planning Commission.[1]
Living Banaras: Hindu religion in cultural context. By Bradley R. Hertel and Cynthia Ann Humes. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
Gurus in America. By Thomas Forsthoefel and Cynthia Ann Humes. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.
Breaking boundaries with the Goddess: New Directions in the Study of Saktism. By Cynthia Ann Humes and Rachel Fell McDermott. Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2009.
The Ivory Tower and the Cloud. Understanding Cloud Computing (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore: 2010 edition, Inside the Minds series), co-authored with Jeremy Whaley.
Staying in the IT Game on Campus. Updating Your Company's Technology Strategy: Leading CTOs and CIOs on Working with the Executive Team, Managing Budget Constraints, and Delivering Business Value (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore: 2010 edition, Inside the Minds series).[1]
^Nilima Chitgopekar, 2002, Invoking goddesses: gender politics in Indian religion, Shakti Books, page 84
^John Stratton Hawley, Donna M. Wulff, 1998, Devī: goddesses of India, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., pages 10-11
^Cynthia Ann Humes, "Maharishi Ayur-Veda", chapter 17 in Wujastyk, Dagmar; Smith, Frederick M. (2008), Modern and global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms, Albany: State University of New York Press, ISBN978-0-7914-7489-1