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Religion and religious pluralism, faith-based organizations, moralities of giving, inter-religious exchange, and emergent inter-religious socialities.
Translation and incommensurability of religious concepts in contemporary inter-religious and secular political debates.
Buddhism(s) and Christianities, particularly as practiced in contemporary Sri Lanka.
Tsunami disaster relief, and attendant narratives of suffering and recovery from trauma.
Comparative theologies, theodicies, soteriologies, and the ethical postulates that are derived from them.
Theoretical and political debates over conversion/anti-conversion and over syncretism/anti-syncretism.
Philosophies of the European Enlightenment, and in contrast, of post-Enlightenment ideals of enchanted vision and non-identitarian thinking as the animus for politics and in everyday life.
2009 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
2004-2007 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation.
2008 Mellon Summer Language Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University.
2006 & 2007 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, for Sinhala and for Tamil.
2006 J. Brien Key Fellowship.
2005 Research Grant, WGS (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies) Program, Johns Hopkins.
2000 Fulbright Fellowship (Post-Baccalaureate), Sri Lanka.
2000 Dave Okada Memorial Prize in the Social Sciences, Carleton College.
“Introduction to Religions of the World” (co-lecturer), Johns Hopkins, Spring semester, 2007.
“Ordinary Ethics and the Problem of Conversion by way of “Allurement”: A View through the Practical-Theological Lens of Sri Lankan Buddhist and Hindu Piety”
Paper presented at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion Meetings, 2007.
“Sin and Social Mobility: Conversion and Conflicting Cosmologies in Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity in Sri Lanka”
Chair for panel entitled, “Socialities of Virtue: Religion and the Politics of Affiliation”.
Berkeley South Asia Conference, University of California-Berkeley, 2006.
Discussant for a panel entitled, “Challenging the Animal, Undoing the Human”.
Graduate Student Conference, “Animalities: Critical Approaches to the Question of the Animal in Anthropology,” Johns Hopkins Department of Anthropology, 2008.
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