Academic Employment
2025 – 2026
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Numata Scholar
Princeton University, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion
2024 – Present
2023 – 2024
Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion
Whitman College
Lecturer, Department of Religion
Dartmouth College
Education
2023
Ph.D., Stanford University, Religious Studies
Certificate in American Religions
Dissertation title: “Preaching the Great Way: The Dharmabhāṇaka in Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras.”
2021
M.A., Stanford University, Religious Studies
2018
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
B.A., Theological Studies, Summa Cum Laude, Kente Valedictorian
Fellowships & Awards
2022
Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities & Sciences
2021
Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities & Sciences
2021
Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Research Grant, Stanford University
2021
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Travel Grant
2020
The Colleen and Robert D. Haas Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
2019
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for the Study of Sanskrit, American Institute of Indian Studies (Summer)
2018
B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Loyola Marymount University
2018
Kente Graduation Valedictorian, Loyola Marymount University
2018
Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
2018
Summer Language Grant, Stanford University (Tibetan)
2018
The Marie Anne Mayeski Award in Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
2018
Best Paper in Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
2018
Theta Alpha Kappa
Ralph H. Craig III, Ph.D. 