Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1986
comparative philosophy, religion, history of science, and gender, with other interests in poetics and science fiction and media studies East-West comparative studies Chinese Greek comparative philosophy and history of science.
Ph.D. Committee on Social Thought 1989 University of Chicago, Illinois M.A. Classics 1976 Boston College, Massachusetts B.A. Psychology 1974 Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts
Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1996-present Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1995 Exchange Scholar, Harvard University, 1984-87
2014 PhD., Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Thesis Title: Writing True Places: the Buddhist Historiography of Zavaa Damdin in the Early Days of Mongolian Socialism
03/2019-present Associate Professor in Transnational Buddhism, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside 09/2018-present Chair, Asian Studies Program, University of California, Riverside. 08/2014-02/2019 Assistant Professor in Transnational Buddhism, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside
modern Chinese language, literature, popular culture, intellectual history, art and politics rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language.
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, 1976
taught Chinese language and literature at Princeton University (1973-77 and 1989-2008) and UCLA (1977-1988)
Chinese Christianity China’s own religious, social, and political history, the larger contemporary trend of rising Christian adherence and dynamism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the general history of Christianity