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Academic positions
- 2022–present, Professor of Asian History & Health Humanities, The Abington College of the Penn State University
- 2016–2022, Associate Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Abington College
- 2010–2016, Assistant Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Abington College
- 2013, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Religion Department, Duke University
- 2011-12, Regional Faculty Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
- 2009–10, Instructor, Depts. of History and Religious Studies, Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY)
- 2008–09, Visiting scholar, Dharma Drum Buddhist College and Academia Sinica Institute of History & Philology (Taiwan)
- 2007–08, Instructor, Expository Writing Program and Dept. of History of Science, Medicine, & Technology, Johns Hopkins University
Leadership & editorial positions
- 2022–present, Program Chair for Health Humanities and minor in Bioethics & Medical Humanities.
- 2017–present, Program Chair for Multidisciplinary Studies, Integrative Arts, and minors in Asian Studies, Global Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies.
- 2016–present, Editor in Chief, Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
- 2013–present, Council Member, International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
- 2013–2015, Associate Editor, Asian Medicine
- 2013–14, Book Review Editor (East & Southeast Asia), Asian Medicine
- 2011–, Founder and organizer, Philadelphia Area Buddhist Studies Workgroup
- 2011–14, President, Oriental Club of Philadelphia (one of the oldest academic societies in the U.S., 1888-2017)
Education
- Ph.D., History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2010. Dissertation title: “Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China: Disease, Healing, and the Body in Crosscultural Translation (2nd to 8th Centuries C.E.).” [Dissertation Review; revised version published in 2014 by University of Pennsylvania Press]. Graduate fields: History of religion and medicine in China; history of religion and medicine in India; history of medicine in the West; Chinese history.
- M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Virginia, 2005. Thesis title: “Thai Medicine Reconsidered: ‘Royal’ and ‘Rural’ Practitioners and the Struggle to Define a Tradition.” (Revised version published in 2007 by Hohm Press; 2nd edition 2015 White Lotus Press.)
- B.A., University of Virginia, 1996. Majors: Anthropology, Cognitive Science. Minor: East Asian Studies.
Teaching awards
- 2020, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Impact Award
- 2019, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Faculty Fellow
- 2018, Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
- 2017, Abington College Chief Ogontz Award (i.e., highest award given to faculty by student body)
- 2015, Abington College Diversity Award
- 2015, New Media Consortium Idea Lab Winner for interdisciplinary course on Visualization
- 2014, Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
- 2013, Duke University Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellowship
Grants & research awards
- 2020, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitational Fellowship
- 2019, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Faculty Fellow
- 2018, Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
- 2016, Abington College Faculty Senate Scholar Award (i.e., “Scholar of the Year”)
- 2014–17, Global Research Network Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (co-recipient of 3-year $230K research fellowship)
- 2011–12, Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Regional Faculty Fellowship
- 2009–10, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- 2009–10, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined)
- 2008–09, Fulbright IIE Taiwan
- 2008, Fulbright Critical Language Extension Award
Invited academic presentations
- 2022: SOAS, University of Toronto, Bucknell University, SUNY Buffalo, NYU
- 2021: UC Santa Barbara, Oxford University
- 2020: Johns Hopkins University, Moravian College, Johns Hopkins Medical School
- 2019: Warburg Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Binghamton University, Huntington Library, California State University Bakersfield, University of Hawaii, University of Rochester, Utica College, University of Georgia
- 2018: National Museum of Thailand, University of Montréal, University of Heidelberg.
- 2017: University of Michigan, Dartmouth, Duke, University of Utah, Kyung Hee University, Leipzig University, Columbia University, Ottawa University, UPenn
- 2016: UCLA, Columbia, University of Toronto, Goucher College, Leipzig University, UPenn
- 2015: Georgetown, Harvard, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan
- 2014: Yale, Bowdoin, University of Miami, Southern Methodist University, University of Leeds, Washington University in St. Louis, Wonkwang University
- 2013: Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, UPenn, West Chester University, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
- 2012: University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, McMaster University, UPenn, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
- 2011 and earlier: Duke, West Chester University, Cornell, Won Institute of Graduate Studies, Academia Sinica