(Doctoral degree in Religious Studies unless otherwise noted)

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Theodore (Tad) Cook (2007)
Dissertation: " The Daojiao yishu: A Tang-dynasty Daoist Handbook" (advisor: Bielefeldt)"
Research Fellow, SCBS
tadcook@stanford.edu

Shari Epstein (2006)
Dissertation: "Boundaries of the Dao: Hanshan Deqing's (1546-1623) Buddhist Commentary on the Zhuangzi" (advisor: Yearley)
Assistant professor, Dharma Realm Buddhist University
shari.epstein@drbu.org

Wilburn (Wil) Hansen (2006)
Dissertation: "Strange Tidings from the Realm of Immortals: Hirata Atsutane's
Ethnography of the Other world" (advisor: Faure)
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University

Jason (J.J.) Josephson (2006)
Dissertation: "Taming Demons: The Anti-Superstition Campaign and the Invention of
Religion in Japan (1853-1920)" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Assistant Professor, Williams College
JasonJosephson@williams.edu

David Quinter (2006)
Dissertation: "The Shingon Ritsu School and the Mañjusrî Cult in the Kamakura
Period: From Eison to Monkan" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University
quinterd@indiana.edu

Lisa Grumbach (2005)
Dissertation: "Sacrifice and Salvation in Medieval Japan: Hunting and Meat in Religious Practice at Suwa Jinja" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Tamai Professor of Buddhist Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
lgrumbach@earthlink.net

Elizabeth Morrison (2004)
Dissertation: "Ancestors, Authority, and History: Chan lineage in the Writings of Qisong (1007-1072)" (advisor: Faure)
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
emorriso@middlebury.edu

Julius Tsai (2003)
Dissertation: "In the steps of Emperors and Immortals: Ritual Tours to the Mountains in Early Daoism" (advisor: Faure)
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
jntsai@yahoo.com

James Robson (2002)
Dissertation: "Imagining Nanyue: A Religious History of The Southern Marchmount Through the Tang Dynasty [618-907]" (advisor: Faure)
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
robsonj@umich.edu

Henry (Hank) Glassman (2001)
Dissertation: "The Religious Construction of Motherhood in Medieval Japan" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Assistant Professor, Haverford College
hglassma@haverford.edu

Irene Lin (2001)
Dissertation: "Traversing Boundaries: The Demonic Child in the Medieval Japanese Religious Imaginaire" (advisor: Faure)
Associate Director, SCBS
ihl@stanford.edu

Michael Como (2000)
Dissertation: "Silla Immigrants and the Early Shôtoku Cult: Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Early Yamato" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
mc2575@columbia.edu

David (Max) Moerman (2000)
Dissertation: "Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan" (advisor: Faure)
Associate Professor, Barnard College
dmoerman@barnard.edu

Egil (Gil) Fronsdal (1998)
Dissertation: "The Dawn of the Bodhisattva Path: Studies in a Religious Ideal of Ancient Indian Buddhists" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Director, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, Redwood City
http://www.sati.org/

Lawrence Gross (1998)
Dissertation: "Manzan Dôhaku and the Transmission of the Teaching" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Visiting scholar, U.C. Santa Barbara
lgross@iastate.edu

Wendi Adamek (1997)
Dissertation: "Issues in Chinese Buddhist Transmission as Seen Through the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Ages)" (advisor: Faure)
Assistant Professor, Barnard College
wadamek@barnard.edu

Okada Masahiko (1997)
Dissertation: "Vision and Reality: Buddhist Cosmographic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Instructor, Tenri Daigaku

John Kieschnick (Asian Languages, 1995)
Dissertation: "The Idea of the Monk in Medieval China: Asceticism, Thaumaturgy, and Scholarship in the Biographies of Eminent Monks" (advisor: Faure)
Lecturer, University of Bristol

B. Allan Wallace (1995)
Dissertation: "The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Director, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
alanwallace@earthlink.net

David Gardiner (1994)
Dissertation: "Kûkai and the Beginnings of Shingon Buddhism in Japan" (advisor: Bielefeldt)
Associate Professor, Colorado College
dgardiner@ColoradoCollege.edu

Mark Unno (1994)
Dissertation: "As Appropriate: Myôe Kôben and the Problem of the Vinaya in Early Kamakura Buddhism" (advisor: Faure)
Associate Professor, University of Oregon
munno@darkwing.uoregon.edu