Philosophy friends: & I am very excited to release a brand new episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series on Featuring the Distinguished Professor Emer, Dr. Rolf J. Goebel (UAH), discussing the life and thought of the German Philosopher Walter Benjamin. 1/2 youtube.com/watch?v=ujBx8n…

New publication: The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History is out. I am happy be in the midst of amazing contributors. My chapter titled "When the Subaltern Speaks Supremacy" looks at the discourses of 'subalternity' in relation to caste in TN. amazon.in/Routledge-Hand…

Excited to present my work at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, University of Oxford.

New, open-access roundtable on Decolonizing Nature as Subject in Indonesia in BKI journal! Such a pleasure to bounce off ideas with Marieke Bloembergen, Farabi Fakih, Anto Mohsin, Teren Sevea and many others on this! Link here: brill.com/view/journals/…

New open access article CSSH where I write about India's city improvement trusts of early 20th century and how they inaugurated a new language, technology, and rationality of urban governance. - bit.ly/43Vy46q

2025b. "Constructing Identity through Monastic Legislation: Rules Intended to Differentiate Buddhists from Jainas and Ājīvikas in Vinaya Literature," 28 pages, forthcoming in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 88 academia.edu/125895266/2025… via Academia

The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna is advertising a three-year 50% Postdoc Position in the field of Indology and Himalayan Studies. The current application deadline is 26th June 2025. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University…

Helen De Cruz has passed. In her final days, she was frank about her gratitude but also her devastation. She called her death a "financial, emotional catastrophe" for her family. If you are able, I'll link her gofundme to support her children and husband in a reply below.

Friends - do read Mukesh Kumar's fantastic new piece in #JAAR that challenges our conceptions of what is #Hindu, what is #Muslim, and how #caste is used in #Indian religious categories! academic.oup.com/jaar/advance-a…

I am pleased to share my article 'The Visibility and Invisiblity of Caste(d) Waste Management Infrastructures in Delhi epw.in/journal/specia…

I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in The New York Times. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…

University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…

Friends in #BuddhistStudies, do read Oliver Freiberger's fabulous new piece, "Qualities of Distinction," here, the author argues that we need to seriously reconsider what practices were foundational to early Indian Buddhism. Free for download here: academia.edu/143337761/Qual…

Friends in #BuddhistStudies, do read Oliver Freiberger's fabulous new piece, "Qualities of Distinction," a fundamental reconsideration of early #Indian #Buddhist identity. Free for download here: academia.edu/143337761/Qual…

JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job/4…

For Friends in Kolkata Aug 25th - Mou Banerjee will be speaking on her fantastic book, _The Disinherited_