• Hindu and Jain pilgrimage and monastic traditions
• Mughal Empire
• Indian devotional practices
• Colonial India

• “Sensory Experiences as Elements of Asian Studies Field Trips” in Education About Asia, Vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 44-47
• “Bikaner” and “Rajasthan” in India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic edited by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long (Greenwood Publishing, 2011)
• “Renouncing Renunciation: Viraha Bhakti, Veer Bhakti and the Rajput Ethos among Dadupanthi Nagas, circa 1660-1860 CE” in Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture edited by James Blumenthal (Madison: University of Wisconsin – Center for South Asia, 2006)
• “Poets, Warriors and Brothers: The Shifting Identities of Rajput Dadupanthis, circa 1660-1860 CE” in Culture, Communities and Change edited by Varsha Joshi (Jaipur: Rawat Publications and Institute of Rajasthan Studies, 2002)

• Why Jainism: Incorporating Jainism into the Undergraduate Curriculum
  ASIANetwork Annual Conference, San Diego, April 2019
• India at 70: A Review of its Progress and Possibilities
  World Affairs Council of Charlotte, June 2017
• Identity & Revival in a Jain Pilgrimage Center
  ASIANetwork Annual Conference, St. Louis, April 2015
• What Every Student Needs to Know about India: Approaches to Teaching India as an Element of World History Teaching about India Conference, UNC-Asheville, September 2013
• Incense, Spices and Stinky Tofu: Sensory Experiences as Elements of Asian Studies Field Trips
  Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 2013
• On the Margins: Southeast Asia in the World History Curriculum
  World History Association Symposium on Southeast Asia, Siem Reap, Cambodia, January 2012
• Marching to Drumbeats: Processions and the Delineation of Jain Identity in a South Indian Pilgrim Center
  American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2011
• Tradition and Modernity in the Jain Bhattaraka Traditions of Karnataka
  American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2007
• Devotional Religious Movements in Medieval Rajasthani History
  Invited lecture, Jain Vishwa Bharati Institute and University, Ladnun (Rajasthan), India July 2006

• Japan Foundation Fellowship for Japan Studies Workshop at Belmont University, 2014
• Freeman Foundation Fellowship, Japan Studies Association’s Summer Institute for Infusing Japan Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum, Honolulu, 2013
• WINGS Grant to attend World History Association Symposium on Southeast Asia in Cambodia, 2012
• Wingate University Spivey Instructorship, 2011-2012
• NEH Fellowship for Summer Institute at East West Center, Hawaii on The Dynamics of Cultural Unity and Diversity in Southeast Asia, 2011
• Wingate University Friends of the Library Faculty Award, 2010
• WINGS Grant for Faculty Research in India, Summer 2009
• Fellowship, International Summer School for Jain Studies in India, Summer 2006

• HIST 315: Modern East Asia
• HIST 321: Culture & History of Japan
• HIST 322: Early India
• Special topics courses on Southeast Asia, Religious Nationalism in South Asia, etc.

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