The History Department is excited to welcome Dr. Steven Vose to the faculty as a visiting assistant professor. Dr. Vose holds the Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Professorship in Jain Studies.

As a historian of South Asia, Dr. Vose specializes in politics, religion, and culture of the late medieval or Islamicate era (ca. 1200-1700) to the present. His professorship will support research and courses on the history, philosophies, art, and culture of Jains and Jainism, a small but influential religious community originating in India ca. 5th-6th c. BCE. He will also teach courses and support programs aligned with Jain values, such as nonviolence, conflict resolution, social justice, human rights, sustainability, environmentalism, and animal rights at CU Denver. 

His first book, Reimagining Jainism in Islamic India: Jain Intellectual Culture in the Delhi Sultanate (Routledge, forthcoming), won the Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Book Prize in the Indian Humanities from the American Institute of Indian Studies. He is currently working on another book project, Globalizing Jainism, which will examine a contemporary Jain religious organization popular in diaspora communities in North America and the UK to understand how Jainism is, once again, being reimagined in the present moment.

Dr. Vose’s courses include “From Buddha to #BlackLivesMatter: The Past and Future of Nonviolence,” “Gender, and Religious Nationalisms in Asia and the U.S.,” “World Religions,” and “Asian Philosophies & Religions.”