The Bhaktivedanta Research Center has the privilege of the support and guidance of reputed
scholars in worldwide academia in the areas of philosophy, humanities, history and other
social sciences.
The Academic Advisory Board (AAB) provides guidance to the Board of Management,
Research Projects and the Director, about the course content and in the delivery of all the
academic and research programs at BRC. The AAB also provides advice related to faculty
sourcing, evaluation and retention.
The suggested names of members for the academic advisory board mentioned below are
subject to approval of concerned authorities.

Associate Professor
Department of Ethnology, History of Religion and Gender Studies
Stockholm University
Frescativagen llE, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden
ferdinado.sardella@rel.su.se
sardella.brc@gmail.com

Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology
Åbo Akademi, Finland
mans.broo@abo.if

Professor & Director
Indic and Comparative Theology and Master of Arts in Yoga Studies
Loyola Marymount University
Dr, Los Angeles, CS 90045, USA
cchapple@lmu.edu

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
University of Evansville
1800 Lincoln Ave, Evansille, IN 47722, USA
gg91@evansville.edu

Associate Professor
Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies
Department of History
Utah State University
710 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322, USA
ravi.gupta@usu.edu

Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Indiana University
107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
dhaberma@indiana.edu

Associate Professor
Literature, Philosophy and Religion
Sophia University
7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan
k-okita@sophia.ac.jp

Professor
Christopher Newport University, Virginia
Distinguished Teaching & Research Faculty
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, USA
gschweig@cnu.edu

Professor & Director
Center for Dharma Studies
Graduate Theological Union
2465 Le Conte Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
rsherma@gtu.edu
Research Fellow
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
University of Oxford
Magdalen Street, Oxford OX13AE, UK
kvalpey@gmail.com

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
University of Oxford
Magdalen Street, Oxford OX13AE, UK
lucian@ochs.org.uk

Retired Professor
Department of History
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

Associate Professor
Department of History
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math
G.T. Road, PO Belurmath
Howrah, WestBengal-711202
santanudeys@gmail.com

Head
Department of Philosophy and Psychology,
Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai

Former Head, Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature
Calcutta University
87/1, College Street, Kolkata 700073
abhishekb.post@gmail.com

Head,
Department of Sanskrit
University of Mumbai