Sophia studies premodern Indonesian history. Her dissertation titled “Imprints and Impressions: an ecocritical study of Javanese stūpika, 9th – 11tt centuries” examines miniature Buddhist reliquaries (stūpikas) from c. 9-11th century Java as a means to add granularity to our understanding of the movement of people…
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John Pickens hails from the small town of Bristol, Vermont. At the age of 15, he travelled with his family on a four-month journey to Asia. The formative trip started in Nepal, and then continued overland through Thailand, Malaysia, and the Indonesian archipelago. After completing…
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Priya Kothari studies South Asian religious texts and traditions with a particular interest in the devotional communities of Gujarat and Rajasthan and their lives in the diaspora. Her ethnographic research focuses on storytellers of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa in the Puṣṭimārga and Vallabha Sampradāya, and her…
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Nicole Ferreira is a student of medieval and early modern South Asian history. In her dissertation, she explores the development of an Afghan identity in textual conversations that unfolded against the backdrop of Mughal rule in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Echoing the breadth of…
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Katherine Bruhn studies modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art, with a focus on Indonesia. Her dissertation, tentatively titled, “Art World Making in Indonesia: A History of Minangkabau Artistic Production, 1926 – 2019” looks at the work of artists part of the Minangkabau ethnic group. One…
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