Publications


Academic:

Monographs
  • The First of All Animals: Humans and Animals in Ancient India. Oxford Oriental Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [In preparation; positively reviewed with revisions by Oxford University Press.]

Edited Volumes

Peer-reviewed articles
  • “When Cows Sacrifice: The Meaning of Vedic Tūpara”. In C. Fleming et al. (eds.). Science and Society in the Sanskrit World: Festschrift for Christopher Z. Minkowski. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Chapters and Essays

Reviews, Interviews, and other short form articles
  • With E. Götzingerová. “Rozhovor s Barborou Sojkovou o Oxfordu, sanskrtských rukopisech a védách.” Sacra 23.2 (2025). [In Czech. “Interview with Barbora Sojková about Oxford, Sanskrit MSS, and the Vedas.”]
  • “The Art of Cataloguing Sanskrit”. Friends of the Bodleian Magazine, Bodleian Library, Oxford (2023).
  • (Review) W. Doniger, “Winged Stallions & Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History”. Journal of American Oriental Society 142.4 (2022), pp. 1011–1013.
  • “Oxford’s First DPhil Student”. Floreat Domus, annual publication of the Balliol College, Oxford (2020). 
  • With J. Dynda. “Fighting Dragons and Monsters: Eighth Conference of IACM.” Religio 22.2 (2014). [In Czech.]
  • With J. Dynda. “Interview with Ronald L. Grimes.” Sacra 11.2 (2013). [In Czech.]
Translations
  • Tsultrim Allione, Moudré ženy [Women of Wisdom]. Tr. B. Sojková and E. Klimentová. Prague: One Woman Press, 2015 (reprinted in 2019).  [In Czech.]
Theses

In Progress
  • “With My Own Skin I May Flourish: Brāhmaṇa Prose on the Relationship of Man and Cattle”. In Y. Shen and V. Negribs (eds.). Puṣpikā: Proceedings of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium. University of Oxford, 2019. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2026. [Forthcoming.] 
  • “Seeing the Vedic mántra”. In D. Haas, B. Larios, and F. Gerety (eds.). Transcultural and Multisensory Perspectives of Mantra. EASAS Studies Series. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. [Fortcoming.]
  • “The Meaning of mántra in the Vedic Corpus”. [Awaiting submission to Cracow Indological Studies, December 2026.]
  • Vedic Mantras. Special issue of Cracow Indological Studies 28.2 (2027), ed. by F. M. M. Gerety and B. Sojková. 
  • “Rethinking Ritual Agency: Animals and Ritual Speech in Vedic Corpus”. [In preparation, submission in January 2027 to Religions in South Asia.]
  • “The Royal Hunt in Sanskrit Epics”, in C. Fleming and V. Sharma (eds.), The Sanskrit Epics in the History of Hinduism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [In preparation, submission in 2027.]

Non-academic:


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