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EDUCATION
| PhD | University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023 |
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| Department of Religious Studies | |
| Dissertation: Ending the Śaiva Age: The Rise of the Brāhmaṇa Legalist and the Universalization of Hindu Dharma | |
| Advisor: David Gordon White | |
| MA | Columbia University, 2010, South Asian Studies |
| MA Thesis: Devoted to the Texts: Bhakti in the Śāstric Imagination of Premodernity | |
| BA | Bard College, 2004 |
| Religious Studies |
EMPLOYMENT
| 2023 – | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University |
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| Department of Religious Studies | |
| Fall 2021, Spring 2019 | Santa Clara University, Department of Religious Studies |
| Adjunct Faculty |
PUBLICATIONS
| In progress. | “In the Kali Age We Are the Only Brahmins: The Religious and Political Authority of Non-Brahmin Goldsmiths over the Longue Durée.” Modern Asian Studies. |
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| Forthcoming, 2023 | “What the Kālamukhas Can Tell Us About Identity, Institutions, and Community in the Early Medieval Deccan.” In The Oxford Companion to Tantric Studies. |
| 2018 | “The King Must Protect the Difference: The Juridical Foundations of Medieval Religious Diversity.” Religions 9(4): 1–25. |
| 2018 | “Looking Past the Darśanas: Indian Philosophy and the Tantric Knowledge Systems.” In Purusottama Bilimoria, ed., History of Indian Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. |
| In Press | “Mataṅga Played his Flute.” In Raffaele Torella, ed., Essays on Tantra from the 15th Annual World Sanskrit Conference. |
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| 2017 | “Parabrahman among the Yogins: The Changing Place of Yoga in Advaita Vedānta.” International Journal of Hindu Studies 21(3): 345–389. |
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| 2012 | “Caught in the Net of Śāstra: Devotion and its Limits in an Evolving Śaiva Corpus.” Journal of Hindu Studies 5(2): 210–231. |
AWARDS AND HONORS
| 2016 – 2017 | Ludo and Rosane Rocher Research Fellowship in Sanskrit Studies, American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship |
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| 2008 | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Hindi |
INVITED LECTURES
| 2019 | “A Strong Whiff of Specious Reasoning: Scholastic Vedānta as social outcaste in twelfth-century Varanasi.” Age of Vedānta Conference, Stanford University, Nov. 15. |
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| 2017 | “This Land is Śiva’s, You Cannot Touch it: The Juridical Foundations of Religious Diversity in Medieval India.” Center for the Institute of Developing Societies, New Delhi, August 17–19. |
| 2017 | “Teach the Tantras, Pay Your Taxes, Help the Desperate, Feed the People: Nondual Śaivism as a Social Institution in the Medieval Deccan.” Karnatak University, Dharwad, August 10. |
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
| 2023 | “Pregnant with Possibilities: Hemādri’s Re-enchantment of the Śrāddha Ritual.” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 10–13. |
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| 2022 | “Honor Them for They are Not Natural Men: Nonhuman Rights in Pre-modern Śaiva Political Theology.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov. 20. |
| 2022 | “The Path Beyond Caste: Alternative Models of Disciplinarity and Governmentality in the Western Deccan.” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Oct. 19. |
| 2022 | “On the Unmaking of Institutions: The Unpublished Pratiṣṭhāpaddhati of the Caturvargacintāmaṇi and its Real-world Impact.” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, March 19. |
| 2021 | “An Elephant Let Loose in the City of the Gandharvas: The Vernacularization of Scholastic Philosophy in Early Medieval Maharashtra.” American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Nov. 20–23. |
| 2021 | “Worshipping like Rāma in the Rāmarājya: The Caturvargacintāmaṇi’s Account of the Origin and Making of the Dharmanibandha.” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Virtual, March 14. |
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| 2019 | “The Knower in the Field: An Introduction to the Tantric Imaginaries of Medieval Maharashtra.” Society for Tantric Studies, Sept. 27–29. |
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| 2019 | “Sovereign Journeys: Precedent and Sacred Performance in the Deccan.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 17–20. |
| 2019 | “Skull Songs for Sophisticates.” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 15–18. |
| 2018 | “Bhakti is the Very Life Breath of Śiva’s Dharma: “Reappraising the History of Devotion and its Social Implications in Light of the Early Śaiva Sources.” American Academy of Religion. Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 17–20. |
| 2018 | “Bhakti is the Very Life Breath of Our Dharma: Rethinking Early Modern Śaivism in Light of the Classical Sources.” Annual Conference on South Asia, Oct. 26. |
| 2018 | “Whatever He Speaks Becomes Mantra: The Evidence for the Śākta Transmissions Among the Kālamukhas of the Deccan.” 17th World Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, July 9–13. |
| 2018 | “We Belong to the Jāti of the Gods: A Preliminary Study of the Śivadharmavivaraṇa, an Unpublished Work of Non-Brahminical Dharmaśāstra.” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–18. |
| 2018 | “Honor them, for they are not Natural men: Non-Human rights and the politics of Freedom in the Unpublished Śivadharmavivaraṇa.” SAGSC XV The Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, March 1–2. |
| 2017 | “The King of the Yogis on the Tongues of the People: Linguistic and Cultural Translation in the Ocean of Discrimination and Nectar of Discrimination.” 46th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Madison, Wisconsin, October 26– 29, 2017. |
SERVICE TO THE FIELD
| 2021–present | Steering Committee, Tantric Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion |
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LANGUAGES
Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Old Marathi (reading), old Kannada (inscriptions), German (reading), French (reading)
PALEOGRAPHICAL SKILLS
Experience with Uttara Licchavi, Kuṭila, Śāradā, Grantha, Malayalam, Telugu, Nandināgarī scripts.
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