Lisa Balabanlilar is chair of the Department of Transnational Asian Studies, director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies and associate professor of history at Rice University.

"Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.