2023-02-24
A new special issue of the journal Implicit Religion titled “The Return of the Cult: Bad Religion in the Age of Trump and COVID” is now published. I have an article in it on the uses of the word “cult” in American newspapers during the 1990s.

2023-02-07
An article I wrote for The Revealer, ”When Misseeing Is Believing: The Self-Reflected Image and Kundalini Yoga,” on the usual experiences people have while gazing into another’s face is now available online.

2023-01-30
I gave two talks in London, one for the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College London titled "A Century After United States vs. Thind: Race, Religion, and the Beginnings of Yoga in America" and the other for the Centre of Yoga Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies titled "Dissimulation and the Archive: Researching the Early History of Yoga in the United States." The SOAS talk is available to view here.

2023-01-23
I am quoted for an LAist piece on the late Kundalini Yoga teacher turned conspiracy theorist Guru Jagat titled "What A Popular Yoga Teacher's Descent Into Conspiracy Theories Says About The 'Wellness To QAnon Pipeline'."

2023-01-18
I was interviewed for the fourth season of the LAist podcast Imperfect Paradise "Yoga's 'Queen of Conspiracy Theories'" on the late-Guru Jagat, teacher of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga and face of the RAMA Institute. You can hear me on the second episode "Kundalini Royalty" and the third episode "Kundalini Yoga’s #MeToo Moment."

2022-11-02
Seth Powell invited me on the Yogic Studies Podcast where we discussed my research on Early American Yoga and the “Swami Circuit.”

2022-12-16
”Modern Yoga in the West,” a four-module course I taught, with lectures and pre-recorded discussion sessions, is now available to take through Yogic Studies.

2022-12-06
A chapter I wrote on the history of the word "fakir" in America for the volume The United States And South Asia From The Age Of Empire To Decolonization: A History of Entanglements, edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Nico Slate, is now available to read here.

2022-07-29
My co-author Stacie Stukin and I were guests on The Classical Ideas Podcast to discuss our investigative feature for Baaz News on Yogi Bhajan’s claimed title of “Siri Singh Sahib” and how it was used to build his empire.

2022-07-19
An investigative feature for Baaz News written by Stacie Stukin and myself titled “How "Siri Singh Sahib" Yogi Bhajan Created An Empire,” is now available online.

2022-07-18
Sonia Paul’s piece for Vox titled “Sadhguru, the spiritual leader with ties to Will Smith and Modi, explained” with quotes from me is now online.