Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Religious Studies
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Religious Studies
B.A., Rutgers University, English and French Literature
Professional Interests
American Metaphysical Religions
Western Esotericism
South Asian Yoga and Tantra
Modern Postural Yoga
Religion and Gender
Religion and Science
Courses Taught
RELS/WGQS 370: Religion, Gender, and Society
RELS 301: Religions of Asia
RELS 306: Hinduism
RELS 201: Religion, Dialogue, and Society
PHIL 361: Indian Philosophy
Selected Publications
Is This Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice (New York: Routledge, 2021).
Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
“Yogi Calisthenics: What the ‘non-Yoga’ Yogic Practice of Paramahansa Yogananda Can Tell Us About Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85.3 (2017): 494-526.
“Mind Within Matter: Science, the Occult, and the (Meta)physics of Ether and Akasha.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 51.2 (2016): 318-346.
