Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for A Worldwide Literature: Jāmī (1414–1492) in the Dar al-Islam and Beyond, a project studying the reception of the works one of the most widely read authors in the Eurasian continent from the 1400s through the early modern period.

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, published On Hinduism (Aleph, 2013).

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his translation of Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi (UWA Publishing, 2012).

the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture with coauthor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black New Delhi, 2012) and was awarded the Sir Jadunath Sarkar Gold Medal for Pre-Modern South Asian History from the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was the co-principal investigator for "The Theravada Civilizations Project: Future Directions in the Study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia," funded by the Luce Foundation.