Vivek Shah

Vivek Shah completed his M.A. in religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2021, and his B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from Rutgers University in 2017. His proposed dissertation discusses the ontological properties of space expressed in the commentarial writings of theologians of the Vedānta school in the Sanskrit philosophical tradition. Specifically, he is situating his research around the discussion of the 'small ether' (daharākāśa) that appears in the Vedānta tradition. He is also working on a project that applies the phenomenological method toward better understanding the Hindu texts known as the Vedas.