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. Dwaipayan Sen is a historian of modern South Asia. He received his Ph.D. in History and M.A. in Social Sciences from The University of Chicago. He holds a B.A. in History and English from Oberlin College. His research and teaching interests cover a broad spectrum and include casteism and its critique, British colonial rule in South Asia, anticolonial nationalism in India, and Subaltern Studies.  He is increasingly interested in examining the roles of religion and capitalism in the shaping of anti-caste thought and mobilization in eastern India. Sen is the author of The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 2018), as well as articles in journals like Modern Asian Studies, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, History Compass, and Economic and Political Weekly.  He has also contributed essays to a variety of edited volumes, and to fora like The Wire, The Quint, India Seminar, and Himal. His current book-project is provisionally titled Rethinking the Colonial Census: Indigenous Agency and the Work of Enumeration.  The study aims to reevaluate extant interpretations of the census as a tool of colonial domination, and seeks to demonstrate the extensive role played by varied indigenous actors in the implementation and consequences of this administrative mechanism.Future projects include research-articles on configurations of anti-casteism in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, and a social and intellectual history of Subaltern Studies.