Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Associate Professor of History and Humanities
• Asian, Middle Eastern, and African History
• Asian Religions, Islam, and Global Christianity
• Humanities 

Degrees Received

• Ph.D., Non-Western History, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005
  Specializations: south Asian cultural history, Asian Christianity

Courses Taught

• Non-Western History Sequence:
  • Modern Asia
  • Middle East
  • Modern Africa
• Upper-Level History Courses:
  • Religion and Society in Traditional South Asia
  • Religion and Society in Traditional East Asia
  • Christianity in Asia
  • Christianity in Africa and the Middle East
  • Freedom Struggle: Gandhi and Mandela
  • Orientalism and Postcolonialism
  • History and Theory
• Introductory Courses:
  • Introduction to Historical Studies
  • Humanities 203-  Western Culture: Classical through Baroque Eras

Presentation/Publications

• Synthesizing the Vedanta: The Theology of Pierre Johanns S.J. Oxford: P. Lang, 2006.
• “Reading John through Bhakti eyes: the Hermeneutics of A. J. Appasamy.”  Chapter in World Christianity in Local Context (ed. Stephen Goodwin), Continuum Press,  2009.
• “Prophetic Precepts or Divine Preeminence: Rammohan Roy vs. Joshua Marshman on the Significance of Jesus.”  Chapter in Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things: William Carey and Adoniram Judson, Mission Pioneers (ed. Allen Yeh and Chris Chun), Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2013.

Current Projects

• My ongoing research involves examining the lives and thought of indigenous Christians and missionaries in India who engaged deeply with Hindu cultural traditions.
• I love to travel. So far, I have visited 25 different countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. I have lived and studied in Scotland for four years and taught in Italy for two years in the Geneva College Semester in Rome program.

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Served on the Steering Committee for the World Christianity Consultation of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2010-2013
• Travel Funds Recipient, Geneva College Faculty Development, 2009
   For visiting and photographing Kenya and Morocco
• Research Funds Recipient, Methodist University Faculty Development, 2007
  For conducting archival research in the Universities of Mumbai and Pune, India
• Research Funds Recipient, University of Edinburgh Small-Project Fund, 2003
  For conducting archival research in the Universities of Leuven and Namur, Belgium
• Research Funds Recipient, The Spalding Trust, Cambridge University, 2003
  For conducting archival research in the University of Calcutta, India
• Overseas Research Schemes Award, Universities UK, 2002-2004
• Faculty Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, 2002-2004
• Division of Humanities Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, 2001

Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.

• Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of Non-Western Christianity
• American Society of Church History
• American Academy of Religion
• Evangelical Theological Society