Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University. PhD in Religion, Harvard University, 2002. Monograph: Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason: Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority (2010). Research affiliations: Central University for Tibetan Studies (Sarnath), University of Lausanne, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Vienna). Areas of research and teaching: Indian Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist narrative traditions, South Asian religions, Tibetan religion.