Tillo Detige is the Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow in Jainism at the Department of Religion, Rutgers New Brunswick, where he also teaches Jainism. His primary research project investigates the Digambara Jaina ascetic lineages of early modern Western and Central India. He works with unpublished manuscript and epigraphic materials collected during extensive field work, surveying ascetics’ memorials and visiting Digambara temples and manuscript collections throughout the region. His work has been published in a number of journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, including Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jainism (2020). He obtained Master degrees in Eastern Languages & Cultures (Ghent University, Belgium, 2009) and Fine Arts (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, 2003), and a PhD in Religious Studies from the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany, 2024). He also taught Sanskrit and Hindi at RUB (2021-24), Hindi at the Department of Languages & Cultures at Ghent University (2012-18), and South Asian Buddhism at the Carleton-Antioch Buddhist Studies in India program at Bodhgaya (India, fall 2018).