I am a Casual Academic in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia. My research adopts a broadly sociological approach, exploring science-spirituality entanglements through a narrative lens, with a focus on processes of social reality (re)construction. Methodologically, I am interested in tracing the intersections and interplay of ‘science’ and the ‘sacred’, as malleable concepts and cultural symbols, within discourses on the level of emotion, ethos, and sociohistorical context.

My topic interests include New Religious Movements, social mythologies, and secular spiritualities, and I have co-published, with Associate Professor Thomas Aechtner, on science-spirituality dynamics in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). My PhD (2024, University of Queensland) surveys the mythological structure of Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada’s (1896-1977) science-religion commentaries, published in the decades before he founded ISKCON amidst the 1960s North American counterculture.