Sri Sathvik Rayala is a Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University and a returning GSA at the Mittal Institute. Attuned to global and connected histories, his research geographically centers medieval and early modern South Asia, particularly southern India. He is interested in the study of early Indian medicine (Āyurveda), premodern sciences and technology, the entanglements between early sciences and religion, and Indic intellectual traditions and textual cultures (śāstras). His existing interdisciplinary scholarship has dealt with intellectual history, histories of state and court, transregional circulation, Sanskrit, Tĕlugu, and Tamiḻ literatures, and the scriptural corpora of Hinduism. His academic publications feature in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (formerly JAOS), Journal of Hindu Studies, and Journal of Vaishnava Studies.
