Fellows

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 Dr. Schweig is a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Vaishnava Studies. He is also a Distinguished Research and Teaching Fellow at the Center for Dharma Studies. Schweig joined the faculty of Christopher Newport University in the fall of 2000. Before this, he was a teaching fellow at Harvard University, a lecturer at the University of North Carolina and Duke University, and while teaching at CNU, he was for two years, Visiting Associate Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Virginia. He has been recognized several times for excellence in teaching, including the annual Alumni Faculty Award for Teaching and Mentoring (2013). He has been a regularly invited lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, for over ten years.

Dr. Ghosh is the Director of the Institute for Vaishnava Studies and his research specialization is in the history of religions, South Asian Studies, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism. He holds an MSt in Theology and Religious Studies from Oxford University, UK and a PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago on “Vaishnavism and the West”. In the past he has taught at UChicago’s Graham School of General Studies where he won the ‘Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching’, and was a professor of Hinduism and World’s Religions at Grand Valley State University, Michigan before joining as director of IVS. His latest book project titled “Worlds of Devotion” is under contract with State University of New York Press’ prestigious Hindu Studies Series.

Dr. Howard J. Resnick is a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Vaishnava Studies. He is a respected practitioner of the ancient bhakti-yoga tradition of India, has written and taught for over forty years throughout the world. Most notably, he is the first westerner in history to translate and comment upon the canonical Bhāgavata-purāna from within the tradition. Dr. Resnick received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University, and his book on the Vaikhanasas were recently published by the Harvard Oriental Studies Series. He specializes in the teaching of the history of philosophy and religion within South Asia, and has published articles with major university presses. 

Dr. Elsa Marty is a constructive theologian and Christian minister. Marty has a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago, and she is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Her research focuses on contextual and liberation theology in India, specifically among Adivasi Christians in Jharkhand where she has done ethnographic fieldwork. Marty has been involved in numerous ecumenical and interfaith projects, including the Vaishnava Christian Dialogue in Washington, D.C., and she is on the board of directors of the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. Her research interests include theological anthropology, political theology, digital theology, and global Christianities.  Her work as a teaching fellow at the IVS involves exploring the intersections between Vaishnava and Christian theologies and praxis.