Projects

Current projects

• 05/2019 – Research Associate in the project DHARMA (“The Domestication of ‘Hindu’ Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia”), funded from 2019 through 2025 by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 809994). Project website.
• 2017 – Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa. Documentation, edition, and translation of ca. 900 early (pre-7th c.) inscriptions, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Edited by Vincent Tournier and Arlo Griffiths, with contributions by Stefan Baums, Emmanuel Francis, and Ingo Strauch. Published by instalments here.

Past projects and research fellowships:

• 09/2015 – 08/2017 Collaborative Research Fellow, The American Council of Learned Societies/Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, for the collaborative project “From Vijayapurī to Śrīkṣetra? The beginnings of Buddhist exchange across the Bay of Bengal as witnessed by inscriptions from Andhra Pradesh and Myanmar.” Research project co-ordinated by Prof. A. Griffiths (EFEO), also involving Prof. I. Strauch (Lausanne), Dr. S. Baums (LMU) and Dr. J. Wheatley (independent scholar).
• 01/2012 – 08/2013 Research Fellow within the VICI Project “Buddhism and Social Justice,” directed by Prof. J. Silk, and sponsored by the Dutch National Research Fund (NWO). Research project on “Social Hierarchy within Monastic Communities of South Asia, during the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism.”
• 12/2008 – 04/2009 Gonda Foundation Fellowship, for the project “A study of the Bahubuddhakasūtra textual traditions.”
• 02–05/2008 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short Term), for a project on the edition of selected portions of the Mahāvastu, under the guidance of Prof. S. Karashima (Soka University).