Natasha Heller was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for 2006-08. She specializes in the intellectual and religious history of China, with a particular focus on the intersection of Buddhism and literati culture. She received her PhD (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) from Harvard University, with a dissertation on the Chan monk Zhongfeng Mingben (1263-1323) and his literati followers. She is currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.
Benjamin Bogin was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for 2005-07. He received his BA (Intercultural Studies) from Simon's Rock College of Bard and his MA and PhD (Buddhist Studies) from the University of Michigan. His primary interests are Tibetan Buddhist literature and history and his doctoral dissertation consists of a critical edition, translation, and study of the autobiography of the seventeenth-century Tibetan lama, Yolmo Tenzin Norbu. He is currently Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Skidmore College.
