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Mailing Address Tucker Hall Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 USA

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Countries of Specialization India, Nepal, Indonesia

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Research Interests South Asian religious history, dharmasastra / dharmashastra, law and legalism, Veda / Vedism / Vedic studies; Upanisads / Upanishads; Sanskrit, Pali, Hindu, Brahmanism, sacrifice, ritual studies, Saiva / Shaiva / Shaivism, hermeneutics, epigraphy / inscription; manuscript; textual criticism; trans-regional culture; Sanskritization.

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Publications * 2015 "Writing and the Recognition of Customary Law in Premodern India and Java." Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 135, No. 2 (April–June 2015), pp. 225-259 2013 "Legal Diglossia: Modeling Discursive Practices in Premodern Indic Law." In: Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani (eds.), Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in mediaeval India. Collection Indologie, 121. Institut français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013, pp. 411-455. . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1720704 2010 Co-editor, with Donald R. Davis Jr. and Jayanth K. Krishnan. Hinduism and law : an introduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press. "Indic conceptions of authority," In: Hinduism and law : an introduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press.

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