Anuradha received her Bachelors Degree in Social Science, from University College Dublin in 1985. Since that time she has travelled extensively in Europe, Russia and India. While in India she acheived a Bhakti-shastri Degree from the Vrindavan Institute of Higher Education. She has taught on various courses during this time and served as the main curriculum writer for religious education courses in the UK and Belgium. Anuradha was awarded her MSt in the Study of Religion, from Oxford University in 2003. Her thesis, an exploration of faith development in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, was entitled, 'Clouds, Creepers and Krishna: The flourishing of faith in Vishvanatha Cakravarti's Madhurya Kadambini.' Anuradha is currently a faculty member of the OCHS Continuing Education Department. She teaches courses in London, Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge and Leicester. Anuradha has also organised and run interfaith workshops, seminars and conferences internationally.
Fellows
Gillian Evison read theology at St. John's College, Oxford before moving to Wolfson College to complete the M.Phil in Classical Indian Religion. She worked part time in Wolfson College library, whilst finishing her D.Phil, and developed an interest in its collection of books on Indian religions. She started work at the Indian Institute Library, the Bodleian Library's specialist unit devoted to South Asian materials, in 1990 and was appointed as its Librarian in 1993. Gillian is also She serves on a number of national committees devoted to South Asian librarianship and her special interests include the use of new technologies to open up access to South Asian collections in libraries and museums.
Dr Jessica Frazier is from Washington DC, USA. Jessica is a Fellow of the Centre and helps to organise lectures and seminars, research projects, conferences, and fellowships. Jessica is also a member of the Centre's teaching staff, tutoring in the Faculty of Theology, and serves as secretary of our Academic Council, our Academic Planning Committee and the Theology Faculty's Study of Religions group.
She was awarded her B.A. and DPhil from Cambridge University and received an MsT in Religion from Oxford University. She is interested in Hinduism, the Nature of Religion, and the Philosophy of Religion, and is the author of Reality, Religion and Passion: Indian and Western Approaches in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami (2009), and the Continuum Companion to Hinduism (2010). She is also founding editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies, published by Oxford University Press.
Dr Sanjukta Gupta worked as a lecturer in Sanskrit at Visva Bharati, Calcutta and Jadavpur Universities from 1958 to 1966. She subsequently joined Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 1967, where she held the post of senior lecturer in Sanskrit until 1986. She is presently a member of the Oriental Faculty of Oxford University, where she is a part-time tutor. Apart from Sanskrit, Dr Gupta also specialises in Indian philosophy (Vedanta) and ancient Indian religions, with particular emphasis on Tantra, Vaishnavism and bhakti and gender studies.
Rembert holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Oriental Studies (Indology) from the University of Ghent, Belgium, 2003. His masters thesis was, "Hamsaduta of Rupa Goswami. A Study in Translation". he is currently pursuing a DPhil in Theology, Oxford University. Rembert's main area od research is in Sanskrit poetry and poetics, especially in relation to the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
Recipient of Ashvatta Narayanan Bursary of £500 in 2006; Jiva Gosvami Bursary of £1000 in 2007; OCHS Book Grant of £50 in 2007; Rajagopalan Bursary of £250 in 2008; Jiva Gosvami Bursary of £1000 in 2009.
Peggy Morgan is currently Honorary President of the British Association for the Study of Religions and Lecturer in World Religions at Mansfield College, Oxford, Where she convenes a fortnightly interdisciplinary seminar series in the study of religions. She has degrees in both theology and religious studies and has been involved not only in education in a variety of arenas, including schools, continuing education and distance learning degrees, but also in interfaith dialogue at various local, national and international levels. She is a former chair of the Shap Working Party on World Religions in Education and of The Trustees of the International Interfaith centre, of which she is now a patron. Between September 1996 and May 2002 she was also Director of The Religious Experience Research Centre and her publications include: (with C. Lawton) Ethical Issues in Six Religious Traditions; (with M. Braybrooke) Testing the Global Ethic; and (with W.O. Cole) Six Religions in the Twenty-First Century.
Kenneth Valpey, USA (1999–2004)
St Cross College
BA (honours) in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 1996.
MA, in the Cultural and Historical Study of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, US. 1998.
M.St. in the Study of Religion, Oxford University, 2000.
D.Phil., Oxford University, offering a dissertation entitled The Grammar and Poetics of Murti-Seva: Caitanya Vaisnava Image Worship as Discourse, Ritual, and Narrative, 2004.
In 2006 Dr Valpey's dissertation was published in revised form with the Routledge/OCHS Hindu Studies Series as a monograph entitled Attending Krsna’s Image: Caitanya Vaisnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth.
He is presently working with Dr. Ravi M. Gupta on an edited volume, a ‘companion’ to the Bhagavata Purana, and on a translation of a 16th century Sanskrit Vaisnava ritual text, the Haribhaktivilasa, together with Dr. Mans Broo (Abo Akademie, Finland).
Having taught courses in Indian and Asian religions for the year 2006 at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and having taught for the academic year 2007-08 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, he presently continues to teach at CUHK each Autumn semester as a Visiting Scholar.