Marko Geslani is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University, specializing in early and medieval Hindu ritual. He completed his doctorate (Asian Religions) in the Religious Studies Department at Yale in 2011. He has authored articles in Journal Asiatique and Indo-Iranian Journal. His current book project tracks the emergence of shanti, a ritual for appeasing inauspicious astrological signs, in late-Vedic ritual texts, and traces its influence on the formation of mainstream ritual practices in early Hinduism.