Interviews from the DSR Fall 2025 Lecture Series

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ANNIE HECKMAN (DSR PhD, 2023), Associate Translator for 84000: Words of the Buddha and currently teaches at Washington and Lee University. 
October 2025, Lecture: “Nuns, Monks, Soldiers, and Kings: Buddhist Monastics and the Rule of Law in the Mūlarsavāstivāda Vinaya”
Interview by MA student Felicia Sang

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Be generous towards any translation effort and, simultaneously, trust no one.

 L-R: Annie Heckman, Felicia Sang
   

 

SARAH ROLLENS (DSR PhD, 2013), R.A. Webb Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College (Memphis, TN). Her research focuses on the social history of early Christianity.
November 2025, Lecture: “An Unknown Stranger: Misrecognition in the Gospel of Mark and W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Jesus Christ in Texas””
Interview by PhD candidate Connor Kokot

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 L-R: Sarah Rollens, Connor Kokot