Recipient of
Alice Lampe Heidel & John B. Heidel Award
in recognition of commitment to teaching and exceptional service to undergraduate students,
by the Department of Religious Studies, The University of Iowa, US
Alice Lampe Heidel & John B. Heidel Award
in recognition of commitment to teaching and exceptional service to undergraduate students,
by the Department of Religious Studies, The University of Iowa, US
Hilary 2023
Classical Hindi Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church and Associate Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Self-Designed & Self-Taught Image: Youth and Dervish, late 17th century, Acc. No. 11.84.13, The Met Fifth Avenue |
Summer 2021
Elementary Sanskrit Associate Lecturer at South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), University of Wisconsin–Madison, US. Self-Designed & Team-Taught Image: Viṣṇu instructing an assembly of elite men, M.72.53.27a-b, LACMA (©LACMA) |
Spring 2021
Asian Humanities: India Teaching Assistant for the Department of Asian & Slavic Languages, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Self–Designed & Self–Taught Image: Chāndogya Upaniṣad, Lalchand Research Library Collection, Chandigarh. Photo by Sarah Welch ©Wikimedia CC-BY-SA-4.0. |
Summer 2015 Prakrit Languages Language Instructor for the Summer Language Program of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Chicago, US, organized at the Deccan College, Pune, India. Image: A folio of the Uttarādhyayanasūtra, AC1993.225.1, LACMA (©LACMA) |
Spring 2015
Classical Mythology Teaching Assistant for the Department of Classics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Course supervised by Dr. Vasiliki Kostopoulou, Department of Classics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Image: Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game, 540-530 BCE, Musei Vaticani, Rome. |
Fall 2014 Judaism: The Sacred & The Secular Teaching Assistant for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.Course supervised by Prof. Jay A. Holstein, J. J. Mallon Chair of Judaic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Image: Yemenite Torah Scrolls, Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0. |
Summer 2014
Sanskrit Language Instructor for the Summer Language Program of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Chicago, organized at the Deccan College, Pune, India. Image: Devīmāhātmya (11th century Ms from Nepal; Sam Fogg cat. 17(1996):40. Photo by Sarah Welch; Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0). |
Fall 2013
Introduction to Sanskrit Language Instructor for a forum on Iranian Studies and Ancient Iranian Languages at the Khāna-ye Honar, Maydān-i Inqilāb, Tehran, Iran. Image: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.8-10, Lalchand Research Library Collection, Photo by Sarah Welch, Wikipedia, ©CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Spring 2012
Introduction to Buddhism Teaching Assistant for the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Course supervised by Prof. Morten Schlütter, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Image: Amida Buddha at the Jodo Shinshu altars. Source: Jodo Shinshu Handbook for Laymen. |