2022-2024 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies
Samuel Grimes is Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies. His research centers primarily on Sanskritic Vajrayāna in South Asia and Newar Buddhism in Nepal. He received an MA from the University of Hawai’i, MPhil from Oxford University, and PhD from the University of Virginia....Read more about Samuel Grimes
Hou Xiaoming 侯笑明 is the 2022-2024 Glorisun Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of Chinese Buddhism specializing in cross-cultural transmission and translation. She received her Ph.D. from EPHE/PSL (École Pratique des Hautes Études/Université Paris Sciences et Lettres) in...Read more about Xiaoming Hou
2023-2025 Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies
Jiangnan Li is the 2023–2025 Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism. His research centers on state-religion relationships in Song Dynasty China (960–1279). He received an M.A. (2015) in Chinese History from Capital Normal University and his Ph.D. (2023) from Arizona State...Read more about Jiangnan Li
2023-2025 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Buddhism
Dr. Lazzerini received her Ph.D in Religious Studies from Stanford University in 2023. Her dissertation, “Mother of Demons and Dharma Protector: Tracing Hārītī’s Worship in East Asia,” explores the different manifestations and worship of the goddess Hārītī in China and Japan, covering a period...Read more about Simona Lazzerini
