In 2014 he received Ball State’s highest teaching award, the Outstanding Teaching Award. In the spring of 2015, he combined his interests in pedagogy and art by teaching a fifteen-credit hour immersive learning seminar, “Representing Religion in Comics.” His current research projects integrate his academic training with his artistic practice: an examination of the discourses surrounding the notion of “art as/and spiritual practice”; and turning his translation of D. B. Mokashi’s Marathi novel, Ananda Owari, into a graphic novel that he will draw. He has worked extensively with the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, both as a workshop participant and as a member of the leadership team.