Jason specializes in South Asian Studies and the Religious Traditions of
Asia. His research focuses upon the deployment of religion as a powerful
vocabulary of social protest and cultural resistance by marginalized groups
in the modern period. He is particularly interested in the formation of
religious minority communities in areas specifically affected by colonial
domination and rapid modernization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
His first published article dealing with these issues will be printed in
the spring of 2003 in an OUP edited volume on Hinduism in Public and
Private. His C.V.
is online. He has taught courses
in both History and Religious
Studies at Penn. He is finishing his dissertation: Religion and
Social Protest in Bengal: Colonial Adaptations and Appropriations in Bhaktivinoda
Thakura's Nineteenth-Century Vaisnava Reform Movement under the direction
of his advisor, Professor Guy Welbon, as well as two readers including:
Tony K. Stewart and Jonathan Steinberg. Jason is currently
a lecturer in the History Department at Penn and A.B.D. in the Graduate
Group in Religion.
Jason specializes in South Asian Studies and the Religious Traditions of
Asia. His research focuses upon the deployment of religion as a powerful
vocabulary of social protest and cultural resistance by marginalized groups
in the modern period. He is particularly interested in the formation of
religious minority communities in areas specifically affected by colonial
domination and rapid modernization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
His first published article dealing with these issues will be printed in
the spring of 2003 in an OUP edited volume on Hinduism in Public and
Private. His