Historian of Medicine & Buddhism

Welcome! I’m a historian who studies the intersection of science, religion, and material culture in Asia. I am currently completing my PhD at Harvard University in the Committee on the Study of Religion.

My dissertation, Anatomy of the Buddha: Making Images during the Golden Age of Tibetan Medicine, 1600–1800, investigates the unprecedented collaboration between Buddhist artists and physicians in Tibet at the turn of the seventeenth century. I argue that this knowledge exchange led not only to new techniques of scientific visualization, but also redefined what images could do—how they conveyed knowledge, structured perception, and bridged domains of expertise­—reshaping both Buddhist visual culture and medical practice in the process. This study of anatomical illustrations, sacred icons, uroscopic diagrams, and surgical sketches shows how images actively shaped the production and transmission of Tibetan medical knowledge in early-modern Asia.

Awards & Fellowships

    • 2026 Predoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, (MPIWG), Department III (Dagmar Schäfer), Berlin

    • 2025–2026 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies

    • 2024–2025 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University

    • 2024–2025 Individual Research Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council (declined)

    • 2024–2025 Junior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies (declined)

    • 2015 Reed College President’s Summer Fellowship (Nepal)

    • 2024–2025 Fulbright-Nehru Research Award, India

    • 2024 Summer Research Grant, Harvard Asia Center Graduate

    • 2024 Harvard Griffin GSAS Professional Development Fund

    • 2019–2020 Fulbright-Nehru Research Award, India (declined)

    • 2015 Reed College Initiative Grant (Nepal)

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