National Origin: Sri Lanka Office: Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, 120 Inner Campus Dr. , University Station G 9300 Austin, TX 78712-0587.

e-mail jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania: Ph.D. (History of Indian Religions), 1974. University of Oxford, England: B.A. Honors (Sanskrit and Pāli), First Class, 1972; M.A. 1977.

HONORS

Career Research Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011. President, American Oriental Society, 2005-06. Vice President, American Oriental Society, 2004-2005. Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, 2006-present. Featured in a 7-page article “Recent Contributions of Patrick Olivelle to Indology.” Religious Studies Review 26(2000): 157–163. The 2001 Gonda Lecturer at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Numata Professor, University of Vienna, Austria. 2001. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996-97. Alma Cowden Madden Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, 2000-2006. Christie and Stanley E. Adams, Jr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, 1998-2000. U.S. Delegate, Oxford University Press, 1998-present. Book Award: Association for Asian Studies, A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award, 1998, for Upaniṣads. Book Award: American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Historical category, 1994, for The Āśrama System. Mircea Eliade Lecturer in Comparative Religion, University of Western Michigan, 1997.

EMPLOYMENT

Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Chair 1994-2007 South Asia Institute, Interim Director 2003-04 Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Director 1994-2000 Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions, 1991-present Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University: Chair 1984-90; Professor, 1983-1991; Associate Professor, 1978-83; Assistant Professor, 1974-78.

FELLOWSHIPS

Shivdasani Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, Oxford University, April-June, 2009. Wolfson College, Oxford, Visiting Scholar, 2007. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-2001.

University of Texas, Faculty Research Assignment, 2000-2001. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996-97. University of Texas, Faculty Research Assignment, 1996-97. American Institute of Indian Studies and Smithsonian Institution, Senior Fellowship, 1982. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Visiting Fellowship, 1981-82. Indiana University, Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1980. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Visiting Fellowship, 1977-78. National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, 1977-78. American Institute of Indian Studies, Post-Doctoral Study Tour Award, 1975. Indiana University, Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1975.

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