Essay published on The Maydan

I am proud to share the news that a short essay on my research has been published by The Maydan. Titled, "Breathing with Others: The Science of the Breath in Early-modern South Asia," this piece summarizes the project that has occupied so much of my time in the past few years, and will undoubtedly occupy even more of it in the years to come. Here is the link:

https://www.themaydan.com/2017/12/breathing-others-science-breath-early-modern-south-asia/

My thanks to the editors at The Maydan for inviting me to share my work, and for their excellent feedback that helped improve the piece a great deal.

Returning to BOSTON for AAR 2017

I will be in Boston at this year's American Academy of Religion conference. I am presenting one paper based in part on my dissertation research, and then speaking at a round table session for advanced graduate students in Islamic Studies. Here is the information on presentations:

Saturday, November 18th - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM - Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level) - Panel title: Islamic South Asia: Text, Interpretation, and Resistance

Paper title: Mughal Indology in the Ain-i Akbari: Abu'l Fazl and Esoteric Divination Practices

Monday, November 20th - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM - Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level) - Panel title: New Graduate Research in Islamic Studies

Dissertation title: The Power of the Breath in Persianate India

This will be the first time that I make it back to Boston since leaving there in 2005 after I received my Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Not sure I will have much time to make it over the river to Cambridge, but still excited to go back where I had so many warm (or were they cold?) memories from what feels like a lifetime ago.

San Antonio here I come!

I will be presenting at the American Academy of Religion annual conference in San Antonio, Texas this year.  The conference is November 19-22, I present on a panel titled "The Occult Challenge to Sufism" on November 21.  My paper is entitled "Do Sufi Occultists Dream of Electric Sheep? : Magical Constructions of Authenticity in a 19th CE Persian Manuscript." I look forward to connecting with so many friends and colleagues during what I am sure will be hectic whirlwind of a conference. For anyone interested in the conference program, here is a link: 

https://www.aarweb.org/annual-meeting/guide-to-the-2016-aar-annual-meeting-in-san-antonio