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. Antonia M. Ruppel
Lecturer in Sanskrit, Yogic Studies; Religions & Philosophies, Post-Doc, Department of Religions & Philosophies, School of History, SOAS University of London
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
Kunsang (Jakaira Peréz)
Translator and Teacher of Buddhist Philosophy and Tibetan Language
Dr. Kate Hartmann
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wyoming
Visiting Instructors
Dr. Rebecca Bloom
Diane P. Stewart Assistant Director, Curatorial Affairs at the Southern Utah Museum of Art
Dr. Carl Ernst
William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Jay Garfield
Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist Studies, Smith College
Dr. Finnian M.M. Gerety
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
Dr. Samuel M. Grimes
Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Maria Heim
George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion, Amherst College
Dr. Constance Kassor
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Lawrence University, Wisconsin
Dr. Jue Liang
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Denison University, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Wittenberg University
Dr. James Mallinson
Boden Professor of Sanskrit and Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford
Dr. Christopher Jain Miller
Co-founder, Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies, Arihanta Institute.
Dr. Adrián Muñoz
Associate Professor, Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio De México
Dr. Lubomír Ondračka
Researcher and lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague
Dr. Pierce Salguero
Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Penn State University's Abington College
Dr. Stuart Sarbacker
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Philosophy, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University
Dr. Caley Smith
S&R Palvia Endowed Veetraag Vigyaan Professor in Jain Studies at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia
Dr. Daniel M. Stuart
Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina
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