2024-2025 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies
Jetsun Deleplanque is the 2024-2025 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. His research and teaching expertise covers Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist history, sociology and literature, with a particular interest in questions related to religion and political power and the construction of religious authority. He received his PhD in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago’s Divinity school. His current book project, drawing from his doctoral thesis entitled, “Visions of Theocracy: The Rise of Ecclesiastical Power in Tibet and the Founding of the Bhutanese State...
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 Paris, Department of Religions and Systems of Thought, in the area of History of Religion and Religious Anthropology, in 2022. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Pratiquer le bouddhisme en chinois: traduction et reconstruction des enseignements sur la méditation bouddhique du IIe au VIe siècles en...
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 the relationship between state and religion in Song Dynasty China (960–1279). He received an M.A. (2015) in Chinese History from Capital Normal University and his Ph.D. (2023) in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Arizona State University. His dissertation "The Making of Imperial Religion: State and the Three Teachings in Song China" investigates patterns of interactions between the Song state and the Three Teachings of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. At UC Berkeley,...
