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

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)

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.

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 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 Fellows

2024, Penn State sabbatical

2024, Institute for East-West Medicine Grant ($10K research funding)

2023, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitational Fellowship

2022, Institute for East-West Medicine Grant ($50K research funding)

2019, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Faculty Fellowship

2017, Penn State sabbatical

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

2008–09, Fulbright IIE Taiwan with Critical Language Extension Award