Jonathan is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on religion in South Asia. He completed his PhD in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto in June 2022. Jonathan works on Sanskrit scholastic cultures in early-modern South Asia, with a focus on Vedānta in Persianate Deccan and northern India. In addition to Sanskrit, Jonathan works closely with Persian and Marathi material. His articles have appeared in the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, and he has forthcoming contributions in the Journal Hindu Studies and elsewhere. He is also a contributing member for two collaborative research projects––an ambitious intellectual history of Vedānta, and a global comparative study of blasphemy, both funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

You can reach me at jpetersn@stanford.edu