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Human skeletal remains were accidentally unearthed during a construction project in the winter of 2006. The remains were of an estimated 200 individuals buried between 1820 and 1850 in four underground vaults alongside the Spring Street Presbyterian Church. The church was a radical abolitionist church in what was then the 8th Ward of the newly urbanizing New York City. more

While I was in India researching Advaita Vedantan philosophy, I wrote and published two invited articles for the Journal of Dharma in areas of Western literature and philosophy that are a part of my scholarly book project and which contributed to our intercultural intellectual exchange. They are, ʺRadical Evil and the Infinite Other in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me” and ʺSelf and Other in Levinas and Spinoza.” These articles are being collected in an anthology of recent work from the journal to be published soon. more