Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him) is an assistant professor of Indian Ocean and global history. He received a Ph.D. in South and Southeast Asian history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2024 and an M.A. in religious studies from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. His primary research, publication, and teaching areas encompass religion and politics in the Indian Ocean, European seaborne empires, transregional and transnational religious and political movements in the global south, and gender and sexual diversity in the early modern world.

Book Manuscript:

Dangerous Friends: Buddhism and the Dutch East India Company in the 18th Century Bay of Bengal (in preparation).

Journal Articles:

“Joost Schouten’s Unspeakable Sins: Sodomy and Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Asia,” (in preparation).

“Dangerous Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Buddhist Laṅkā and Siam,” Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions 46, no. 3 (2022): 397-416, doi: 10.1017/S0165115322000213.

“Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka’s Contemporary Bhikkhunī Ordination Dispute,” Buddhist Studies Review 36, no. 1 (2019): 99-121, doi: 10.1558/bsrv.35050.