Curriculum Vitae of Patrick McAllister
1. Personal information
- Date of birth 16 January 1979
1.1. Languages
- Good English, German
- Medium Italian
- For research Sanskrit, Tibetan, Latin, Ancient Greek, French
1.2. Internet presence
- Domain rdorte.org
- Homepage https://rdorte.org/pma/
- ORCID 0000-0001-8043-7453
- Software projects https://github.com/paddymcall/, rdorte.org
2. Academic career
- 11/2002–06/2005 Student assistant in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funded National Research Network S87, "Cultural History of the Western Himalaya", University of Vienna
- 07/2005–12/2006 Research assistant in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funded National Research Network S87, "Cultural History of the Western Himalaya", University of Vienna
- 01/2007–04/2007 Research assistant ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funded National Research Network S98 "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century", University of Vienna.
05/2007–04/2010 Independently funded research assistant ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
Full-time work on my PhD thesis was funded with a dedicated DOC grant awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- 5/2010–12/2011 Research assistant ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funded National Research Network S98 "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century" at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1/2012–6/2013 Postdoctoral researcher in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funded National Research Network S98 "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century" at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 7/2013–6/2016 Postdoctoral researcher in the DFG funded project "Systems of epistemology in classical Indian philosophy" (226063163) at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
- since 7/2016 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
2.1. Grants, awards, fellowships
- 05/2007–04/2010 DOC grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences to work on my dissertation on Ratnakīrti's Apohasiddhi
- 10/2009–2/2010 Department Associate, Committee for the Study on Religion, Harvard University
- 2013 Roland Atefie Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for my PhD thesis
2.2. Organisation of academic events
- 16–20/04/2012 Apoha workshop. A workshop held at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Organised together with Helmut Krasser and Parimal Patil. Results published in Reading Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism (McAllister 2017, see https://austriaca.at/7974-0)
- 22–24/05/2017 The future of digital texts in South Asian Studies: A SARIT workshop. A workshop held at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Organised together with Birgit Kellner and Andrew Ollett.
- 8–9/11/2018 An investigation into the teaching of the "non-duality of consciousness": A Jain refutation of Yogācāra philosophy. A workshop held at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
3. Teaching experience
- winter 2014 Seminar 9702061714 "Text-criticism in Indological studies", at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
- summer 2015 Seminar 9719KJC538 "Debates about a Creator God in Classical Indian Philosophy (5th-11th century CE)". With Birgit Kellner, at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
- winter 2015 Seminar 9719KJC577 "Bringing Indian literature into the digital age with SARIT: A hands-on seminar in Digital Humanities". With Birgit Kellner and Liudmila Olalde, at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
- summer 2016 Seminar 9719KJC610 "Introduction to reading Buddhist epistemology and ontology", at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
- summer 2019 Seminar 140144 "Jinendrabuddhi's Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā, chapter V (2019S)". With Horst Lasic, at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
- summer 2020 Übung 142285 "Philosophy of Language: Jinendrabuddhi's Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā, chapter V (2020S)". With Horst Lasic, at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
4. Invited lectures and classes (selection)
- 12 June 2009 Lecture: "An overview of Ratnakīrti's Apohasiddhi", Jadavapur University, Kolkata
- 17 November 2015 Class: "Buddhist epistemology of perception" (Department of Philosophy, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan)
- 19/26 November 2015 Classes: "Apoha in Mokṣākaragupta's Tarkabhāṣā", Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
- 30 November 2015 Lecture: "Prajñākaragupta on inference and perception", Hiroshima University, Japan
- 30 November/2 December 2015 Classes: "Apoha", Hiroshima University, Japan
- 8 December 2015 Lecture: "Digital Humanities in Indology", Tsukuba University, Japan
- 18 February 2017 Lecture: "Encoding Sanskrit Śāstra: SARIT and the TEI", Tokyo University
- 22 January 2020 Lecture: "Vividness, Truth, and Knowledge: Prajñākaragupta's Reconfiguration of Dharmakīrti", Hamburg University
5. Education
- 06/1997 Matura, Bundesgymnasium Neunkirchen
- 10/1998–06/2005 MA (“Magisterstudium") in Philosophy, Tibetology and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
- 10/2005–12/2011 PhD ("Doktoratsstudium") on Ratnakīrti's Apohasiddhi
6. Research publications
See publications.html.