Résumé

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 Fellowship

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
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

In the United States: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Binghamton University, Bowdoin, Boston University Medical School, Bucknell University, CSU Bakersfield, Columbia University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, Goucher College, Harvard, Huntington Library, Johns Hopkins University, Moravian University, NYU, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Princeton, Southern Methodist University, SUNY Buffalo, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Chicago, University of Georgia, University of Hawaii, University of Maryland, University of Miami, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, University of Utah, UPenn, Utica College, Villanova, Washington University in St. Louis, West Chester University, Won Institute of Graduate Studies, Yale
International: Academia Sinica, Bristol University, Cambridge University, Kyung Hee University, Leipzig University, Mahidol University, McMaster University, National Museum of Thailand, Ottawa University, Oxford University, SOAS, Sophia University, University of British Columbia, University of Heidelberg, University of Leeds, University of Montréal, University of Toronto, Warburg Institute, Wonkwang University.