麻豆社

Education:

• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
• M.A., St. John鈥檚 College, New Mexico, 2009
• B.S., Truman State University, 2005

Publications

• Puru峁�a: Personhood in Ancient India. Oxford University Press, 2024. ()
• 鈥淭he Yogi Physician: The Conscious Self and the Yoga of Karmic Observation in Early Ayurvedic Medicine.鈥� Numen 70 (2023): 220-253. ()
• 鈥淏igness, Brilliance, the Buddhi, and the Br膩hma峁噛a Yoked-Up King.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Hindu Studies 13, no.3 (2020): 1-23.( )
• 鈥淏liss and Bodily Disorientation: The Autophagous Mysticism of Georges Bataille and the Taittir墨ya Upani峁�ad.鈥� In Transformative Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Body, Sensory Body, and Spatial Body (Routledge Press), edited by George Pati and Katherine Zubko, 2019. ()
•  鈥淭he Autophagous Absolute: Revelations of Cosmic and Sovereign Violence in the Taittir墨ya Upani峁�ad and the Bhagavad G墨t膩.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Religion and Violence 6, no.1 (2018): 73-105. ()
• 鈥淭he Identity of Person and World in Caraka Sa峁僪it膩 4.5,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Indian Philosophy 45 (2017): 837-861. ()
• 鈥淚n a Time Gone Mad: Indic Notions of Madness in the Mah膩bh膩rata and Beyond,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Hindu Studies 9 (2016): 111-144. ()
• 鈥淭he Unconscious Mind.鈥� In, Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. Edited by Matt Cardin. ABC-Clio Inc., 2015.

Research and Teaching Interests

• History of South Asia
• South Asian Religions
• Religion and Medicine
• Religion and the Environment
• Religion and Violence

Courses Taught

• CIV 201 鈥� World Civilizations and Cultures I
• HIS/RGS 209 鈥� Survey of World Religions
• RGS 305 鈥� Studying Religion
• HIS/RGS 324 鈥� Science and Religion
• HIS 359 鈥� Early India
• HIS 373 鈥� Religions of Asia