Richard H. Davis is Professor in the Religion and Asian Studies Programs at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.  Formerly he taught as assistant and associate professor at Yale University.  His most recent book publication is The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2014).  He is author of four other books: Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva in Medieval India (Princeton, 1991), Lives of Indian Images (Princeton, 1997), Global India, circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History (AAS, 2010), and A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival (Oxford, 2010).  He has edited two volumes, and also wrote the text for a catalog of Indian religious prints, Gods in Print: Masterpieces of India’s Mythological Art (Mandala, 2012).  Currently he is continuing work on the reception history of the Bhagavad Gita, and on a history of religions in early South Asia.