I'm currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. In 2024, I will join the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University as assistant professor of Sanskrit and premodern South Asia. Before coming to the Bay Area I taught at the University of Toronto, where I finished my PhD in the study of religion.
I'm a scholar of Sanskrit literature and an intellectual historian of religion in premodern South Asia. My work focusses on a cluster of scholastic and devotional traditions known as Vedanta, but I have wider interests in Indo-Persian and Marathi literature, and the cultural history of Persianate Deccan. My current book project uses an unstudied archive of scholastic polemics to think about histories of Hindu difference on the eve of colonialism. I'm also working on two other book-length projects: one on Hindu-Muslim intimacy in pre-colonial India, and another on the Marathi poet Vamana Pandita.
You can find my articles in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, the Medieval Globe, and elsewhere. For more on my research and teaching, click on the links below.
You can reach me at: jpetersn@stanford.edu
I'm a scholar of Sanskrit literature and an intellectual historian of religion in premodern South Asia. My work focusses on a cluster of scholastic and devotional traditions known as Vedanta, but I have wider interests in Indo-Persian and Marathi literature, and the cultural history of Persianate Deccan. My current book project uses an unstudied archive of scholastic polemics to think about histories of Hindu difference on the eve of colonialism. I'm also working on two other book-length projects: one on Hindu-Muslim intimacy in pre-colonial India, and another on the Marathi poet Vamana Pandita.
You can find my articles in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, the Medieval Globe, and elsewhere. For more on my research and teaching, click on the links below.
You can reach me at: jpetersn@stanford.edu
