Drafts In Progress

Friendship and Danger in Dutch Colonial Ceylon: Reading Mid-eighteenth Century Kandyan–VOC Correspondence

Tapestries of Warp and Weft: Co–Constituting Theravāda Buddhism(s) in Scholarship and Practice

Refereed Journal Articles

2019

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“Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka’s Contemporary Bhikkhunī Ordination Dispute.” Buddhist Studies Review 36, no. 1 (2019): 99–121. DOI: 10.1558/bsrv.35050.

Book Reviews

Forthcoming

Review of Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka, by Mythri Jegathesan. Asian Ethnology (late 2020).

Review of Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives, eds. R. Michael Feener & Anne M. Blackburn. Asian Ethnology (late 2020).

2018

Review of Buddhism, Politics, and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka, by Benjamin Schonthal. Asian Ethnology 77, no. 1 & 2 (2018): 470–472.

Invited Lectures

2020

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“Monks, Ministers, and Virtuous Kings: Stories of Buddhist Lineage Transmission in Dutch Colonial Southern Asia.” Center for Religion and Global Citizenry, UW–Madison, April, 29, 2020.

Encyclopedia Articles

2018

Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. “Mahayana” and “Women’s Buddhist Networks.” Santa Barbara, CA: ABC–CLIO, 2018.