Academic Advisory Council

Dr. Mark McLaughlin
Chairman
Full Professor, South Asian Religions
Department of Religious Studies
The College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA, USA

Dr. Elaine Fisher
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University,
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Dr. William K. Mahony
Founding Member
Professor of Religious Studies
Davidson College
Davidson, North Carolina, USA

Dr. Nihar Purohit
Guest Lecturer
Sanskrit Vidyaa Dharma Vijyaana Sankaaya
Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, U.P., India

Swami Shantananda
Founding Member
Siddha Yoga Meditation Teacher
SYDA Foundation,
South Fallsburg, NY, USA

Dr. Hamsa Stainton
Assistant Professor
School of Religious Studies
McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Dr. Ben Williams
Muktabodha Research Scholar-in-Residence
Associate Professor and Muktabodha Chair of Yoga Studies
Naropa University
Boulder, CO, USA

Dr. Borayin Larios
Assistant Professor
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies,
University of Vienna, Austria

Dr. Jason Schwartz
Postdoctoral Fellow; Lecturer in Religious Studies (beginning Fall 2025)
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, USA