Faculty

Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.

Core Faculty


Dr. Seth Powell

PhD, Harvard University
Founder and Director, Yogic Studies 

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Dr. Antonia M. Ruppel

Lecturer in Sanskrit, Yogic Studies; author of The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit

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Dr. Rajiv Ranjan

Assistant Professor of Hindi and Urdu, Michigan State University

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Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués

Head of the Department of Pali and Languages, Shan State Buddhist University;  Khyentse Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies; Lecturer of Pali, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Dr. Varun Khanna

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Swarthmore College

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Dr. Kate Hartmann

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wyoming

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Visiting Instructors


Dr. Ian Baker

PhD, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

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Dr. Raj Balkaran

Founder, Indian Wisdom School

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Dr. Geoffrey Barstow

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Oregon State University

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Dr. Daniela Bevilacqua

Post-Doc Research Fellow, SOAS, Haṭha Yoga Project

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Dr. Jason Birch

Senior Research Fellow, SOAS and University of Marburg

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Dr. Rebecca Bloom

Diane P. Stewart Assistant Director, Curatorial Affairs at the Southern Utah Museum of Art

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Dr. Sravana Borkataky-Varma

Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School

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Dr. Edwin Bryant

Professor of Hinduism, Rutgers University

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Dr. Patton Burchett

Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary

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Dr. Keith Edward Cantú

Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University

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Dr. Daniel Cozort

Professor Emeritus of Religion at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania

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Dr. Arti Dhand

Associate Professor of South Asian Religions, University of Toronto

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Philip Deslippe

PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Dr. Carl Ernst

William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Dr. Jay Garfield

Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist Studies, Smith College

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Dr. Finnian M.M. Gerety

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University

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Dr. Samuel M. Grimes

Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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Jacqueline Hargreaves

Independent Researcher, The Luminescent

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Dr. Maria Heim

George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion, Amherst College

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Dr. Stephen Jenkins

Professor of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University

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Dr. Constance Kassor

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Lawrence University, Wisconsin

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Dr. Jue Liang

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Denison University, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Wittenberg University 

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Dr. Philipp Maas

Research Associate, Universität Leipzig

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Dr. James Mallinson

Boden Professor of Sanskrit and Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford

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Dr. Karin Meyers

Academic Director, Mangalam Research Center

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Dr. Christopher Jain Miller

Co-founder, Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies, Arihanta Institute.

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Dr. Adrián Muñoz

Associate Professor, Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio De México

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Dr. Karen O'Brien-Kop

Lecturer in Modern Asian Religions, Kings College, London

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Dr. Lubomír Ondračka

Researcher and lecturer,  Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague

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Dr. Pierce Salguero

Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Penn State University's Abington College

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Dr. Stuart Sarbacker

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Philosophy, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University

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Jvala Singh

Lecturer, UC Berkeley; PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia

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Dr. Mark Singleton

SOAS, University of London

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Dr. Caley Smith

S&R Palvia Endowed Veetraag Vigyaan Professor in Jain Studies at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia

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Dr. Daniel M. Stuart

Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina

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Ruth Westoby

PhD Candidate, SOAS, University of London

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Dr. Ben Williams

Assistant Professor, Naropa University

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Dr. Dagmar Wujastyk

Associate Professor, University of Alberta

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