Graduate Students

The Sanskrit at UF website is maintained by Phillip Green, a graduate student in the department of religion at the University of Florida.

Phillip Scott Ellis Green.   Ph.D. candidate (from 2009).  Mr. Green received an undergraduate degree in comparative religion from the University of Washington in 2002, and after living abroad in Japan for three years returned to earn a master's degree from the University of Florida in religion in 2007 with an emphasis in early Indian Buddhism. His M.A. research focused on avadāna literature, especially how images of women were portrayed and understood in a Buddhist collection of avadānas known as the Avadānaśataka. After 2007, Phillip’s interest in religion in early Southeast Asian—along with connections between early South Asia and Southeast Asia—steadily increased.  Phillip’s dissertation research examines the emergence of esotericism (especially forms of tantric Buddhism) among the early Khmers between the tenth to thirteenth centuries.  Examining architectural, art historical, and epigraphical sources in Old Khmer and Sanskrit comprise the foundation of Phillip’s research.  Phillip’s research is currently funded by a UF Alumni Fellowship and a Ph.D. Dissertation Research Fellowship through the Center for Khmer Studies.  psgreen@ufl.edu

Participtaing Undergraduates:

Taylor Sincich
Braja Spellman
Sarah Stricker

Former Members:

Carly Dwyer.   M.A. Graduate.  Mrs. Dwyer graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Anthropology and Religion from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Her undergraduate anthropology thesis explored the rituals for death performed by Hindus in Varanasi, India and the history of cremation in the United States. Her undergraduate religion thesis focused on death and dying rituals among immigrant and second generation Indian Hindus in America. In January 2006 she spent a month studying performing arts and pilgrimage in Varanasi, India. Her current academic interests include Hinduism around the world, Jainism and the sacred geography of pilgrimage.

    **As of fall 2009 Carly will be continuing her graduate studies as a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University in the Department of Religion.   Carly completed her M.A. here at UF in the summer of 2009.  We wish her the best of luck!