51����

• Ph.D., Syracuse University, Religion
• M. Phil., Syracuse University, Religion
• M.A., Cornell University, Asian Studies
• B.A., Davidson College, Religion

• Ithaca College, 2012-2018
• Wells College, 2011-2012
• Syracuse University, 2007

• World Religions
• Asian religions, Hinduism, religions in modern India
• Indian Epics
• Religion and gender

• Women’s religious leadership and authority
• Globalization and religion
• Religious pluralism
• South Asian religious traditions in North America
• Guru movements and global yoga

Book:

2017 Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-Led Spiritual Community. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

2017 “Shakti’s New Voice: Anandmurti Gurumaa and Female Empowerment,” in Women in Asian Religions, ed. Zayn Kassam. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. 
2014 “A Sufi, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, TV Guru,” in Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia, ed. Chiara Formichi: 236-257. New York and London: Routledge.
2010 “Research on Contemporary Indian Gurus: What’s New about New Age Gurus?” Religion Compass, October 2010, 629-642.

Book Reviews:

2021. Tulasi Srinivas, The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder. International Journal of Hindu Studies. Vol. 25.1 (April).

2021. Karline McLain. The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint, H-NET (March).

2018. John Brockington, Mary Brockington (eds) with Mandakranta Bose. The Other Rāmāyaṇa Women. International Journal of Hindu Studies. 23.3 (December).

Other:

2018 “Anandmurti Gurumaa.” World Religions & Spirituality Project (WRSP), Virginia Commonwealth University. https://wrldrels.org/

• Academic mini-grant, Ithaca College
• Doctoral Prize, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award
• FLAS fellowships at Syracuse and Cornell universities
• Harvard University Pluralism Project research grant