Patton Burchett is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at William & Mary. He holds a Ph.D. in South Asian Religions from Columbia University.
He is the author of A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India (2019).
He teaches several courses contributing to the CNST major, including: “Hindu Traditions,” “Spiritual But Not Religious,” and “The Study of Consciousness.”
Mark McLaughlin
Mark McLaughlin is Teaching Professor of South Asian Religions at William & Mary. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies with a specialization in South Asian Religions and Sanskrit from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
McLaughlin’s interests sit at the intersection of philosophy, contemplative practice, and sacred space. He is currently working on a book project that explores the roots of samādhi (Hindu tomb-shrine) burial practice and the development of samādhi worship traditions through a case study of the samādhi mandir of the 13th-century siddha and Varkari sant, Jñāneśvar Mahārāj in Āḷandī, Maharashtra.
McLaughlin teaches the CNST “core” course “Meditation and Wellness: Introduction to Contemplative Studies,” an experiential course on the biomedicalization of meditation where students practice secular evidence-based meditation techniques while examining the Buddhist and Hindu philosophical perspectives of self that were shaped by these same practices. He teaches several other courses that count toward the CNST major, including: “Hindu Traditions” and “Yoga: Histories and Philosophies.”
Kevin Vose
Kevin Vose is Professor of Religious Studies at William & Mary, where he has taught since completing his PhD with Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia.
He is the author of Resurrecting Candrakirti (2009) and Splitting the Middle: A Natural History of Middle Way Reasoning (2025), both in Wisdom Publications’ Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series.
He teaches numerous courses that contribute to the CNST major, including: “Buddhism,” “History of Religion in East Asia,” “Buddhism and Science,” “Buddhist Philosophy,” and “Buddhist Meditation.”
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