Hannah Gould is an academic specializing in Buddhist Studies and serves as Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. Her research examines Buddhist visual and material culture across South and Southeast Asia, with attention to relics, sacred landscapes, pilgrimage, and the movement of objects and ideas across regions. She has published scholarship on Buddhist art, ritual practice, and the politics of heritage, contributing to the study of how Buddhist communities construct authority and memory through material forms. Gould teaches courses on Buddhist history and culture and supervises graduate research in religious studies. Her recent work continues to explore the circulation of relics and their role in shaping transnational Buddhist networks.