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Associate Professor of Asian Religions, Concordia College

I am a scholar of South Asian religions, with particular focus Hinduism and Jainism. I study ritual and embodied practice.

I am the author of Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, and the Unraveling of Nepal's Hindu Monarchy (OUP 2016), and I have a popular-audience manuscript in progress entitled EcoKarma: Environmentalist Lessons from India's Jains.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Asian Religions, Concordia College

Education

  • 2012 
    University of Chicago Divinity School, PhD (Religious Studies)