I am a DPhil Candidate in History at Trinity College, University of Oxford, and I hold a MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge and a AB in History from Princeton University with minors in African Studies, Latin American Studies, and South Asian Studies.

I also work as a Junior Dean for Welfare and Discipline at Keble College, University of Oxford and as a Graduate Outreach Tutor for Oxford’s History Faculty. I serve further as a Tour Guide for Oxford Tourist Information, a university applications Mentor for local secondary school students in Oxford, and as Oxford Student Union’s Humanities Postgraduate Research Representative.

I co-teach the Theory and Methods course for Oxford’s MSt in History, and I also tutor courses in Modern South Asian Politics and Postcolonial Indian History for Oxford undergraduate students and for students part of Oxford’s Visiting Student Program. I also currently co-convene Oxford’s South Asian Intellectual History Seminar.

I have lived in five different countries, and I can speak thirteen languages with varying degrees of proficiency. I also enjoy chess, cricket, trivia, and travelling!

Current Research:

My research interests lie broadly in the intersection of religious, cultural, social, and intellectual history in modern South Asia. My current DPhil research, funded by the Clarendon Fund, Beit Fund, and a Oxford History Faculty Doctoral Studentship, explores developments in subcontinental Buddhism during the late colonial and early postcolonial periods through the viewpoints of different thinkers from various caste, ethnic, national, and religious backgrounds.

My master’s thesis, funded by a Joint Centre for History and Economics Studentship, explored the shared Buddhist historiography of India and Ceylon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My undergraduate thesis examined the life and times of the Ceylonese Buddhist revivalist, Anagarika Dharmapala.

I have authored two monographs, and my published work has also appeared in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Buddhist Studies Review, South Asian History and Culture, Journal of Religious History, Contemporary Buddhism, Contemporary South Asia, Cambridge University Divinity Journal, History Workshop Online, and Journal of Global Buddhism.

Areas of Study:

Buddhism, religious history, intellectual history, cultural history, social history