I’m an intellectual history of religion, gender, and politics in early second millennium Sri Lanka and beyond. I did my doctoral work in Ithaca, New York, and I’m currently based in Heidelberg, Germany.
I work mostly on ideas and practices of Buddhist sovereignty, which I’m convinced is far more nuanced, less stable and less androcentric than our standard accounts might suggest. My research explores a wider range of evidence—from royal inscriptions, to monastic disciplinary codes, to elaborate poems—in order to expose the cracks and fissures between competing visions of sovereignty. You can read more about this under the “writing” tab above.
You can contact me at brunomshirley [at] gmail [dot] com.
