Contact Information
707 S Mathews Ave
2090 FLB
M/C 176
Urbana, IL 61801
2090 FLB
M/C 176
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Hinduism, the religious and political history of South Asia, Sanskrit literature, Purāṇas, sacred space and landscape, religious conceptions of the body
Education
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2019
M.A. University of Virginia, 2009
B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
Grants
Fulbright-Nehru Research Grant—India (2015-2016)
University of Virginia Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Grant (2015)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship—Hindi (2013-2014)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship—Hindi (2011)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship—Sanskrit (2009)
Awards and Honors
Fulbright—India (2015-2016)
Courses Taught
REL104 Asian Mythology
REL 495 Hindu Epics
selected publications
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
"Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekaliṅgamāhātmya." Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies, London: Routledge, 2019.
"Rāṣṭrasenā: Hawk Goddess of the Mewar Mountains." A Garland of Goddesses: Hindu Tales of the Divine Feminine from India and Beyond, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.