Scholarship
Ritual, memory, and moral life
Research on rebirth, funerals, spirits, Buddhist boundaries, sovereignty, and the material life of religion in Cambodia.
Research areasReligion · Ritual · Cambodia
I study Buddhism, ritual, and religious life in Cambodia.
My research focuses on rebirth and past-life memory, death and funerary practice, Buddhist boundaries, and the relations among religion, material life, and political authority.
Current work
Each Other’s Destiny
Rebirth and Relationship in Cambodian Buddhism
Cambodian accounts of past lives often describe more than the return of an individual. They show relationships, obligations, and karmic debts carrying across lifetimes.
About the bookEarlier book
Deathpower
An ethnographic account of Cambodian Buddhist funeral ritual and the power through which the living care for and transform the dead.
About DeathpowerTeaching
Skills, inquiry, and intellectual history
A stepped approach to academic skills, literature-review pedagogy, and the continuing development of How to Get to Nirvana.