I am assistant professor of East Asian religions at Oberlin College. My research is focused on the history of medieval Japanese Buddhism, with a special interest in ritual healing, disease, and the body.

For the 2022–2023 academic year, I spent my sabbatical leave as an Early Career Research Fellow of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies at the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures at Ryūkoku University. During this time, I worked to finish the final chapters of my book manuscript, Cadaverous: Postmortem Contagion and Ritual Immunity in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (under advance contract with the University of Hawai'i Press). This project is based on three years of archival research in Japan, conducted with grants from the Japan Foundation, the Japanese government, and the Takeda Science Foundation. During this earlier tenure in Japan, I was affiliated with the Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Texts at Nagoya University and the Kyōu Shooku library in Osaka.

I earned my Ph.D. in the Religion Department at Columbia University in 2019.