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Areas of Specialization:
Early modern Europe, the Enlightenment, German intellectual history,
Orientalism, history of philosophy, comparative philosophy
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
(Dissertation: "The
Exclusion of Asia from the Formation of a Modern Canon of Philosophy:
Debates in German Philosophy, 1790-1830")
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
B.A., Hampshire College, 1995
Recent publications:
Book chapters:
“Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy,” in The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin (Springer, 2008), edited by Jeremy D. Popkin.
“Return to Enlightenment: Franz Bopp’s Reformation of Comparative Grammar,” in The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006), edited by David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund.
“A Catholic Apologist in a Pantheistic World: New Approaches to Friedrich Schlegel,” in Sanskrit and ‘Orientalism’: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958 (New Delhi: Manohar, 2004), edited by Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K. J. Park, and D. R. SarDesai.
Edited books:
Disputing Christianity: The 400-year-old Debate over Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Troki’s Classic Arguments by Richard H. Popkin (Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2007), co-edited with Knox Peden and Jeremy D. Popkin.
Sanskrit and ‘Orientalism’: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958 (New Delhi: Manohar, 2004), co-edited with Douglas T. McGetchin and D. R. SarDesai.
Review articles:
[Review of] The Unity of Mystical Traditions: The Transformation of
Consciousness in Tibetan and German Mysticism by Randall Studstill (Leiden
and Boston: Brill, 2005) with Bradley L. Herling, in H-German Discussion
Network (April 10, 2007)
[Review of] The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, A Match Made in
Heaven by Maurice Olender (New York: Other Press, 2002), in Indo-European
Studies Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 1 (July/August 2004).
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