Anna Weerasinghe received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion from Princeton University in 2011 and a Master of Theological Studies degree in History of Christianity from Harvard Divinity School in 2014. Prior to beginning graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, she worked as a research fellow at the Center for Talent Innovation. Her dissertation investigates the practice and regulation of healing by and for women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portuguese India in order to ask how gender influenced contact between plural medical cultures in early modern colonial contexts.