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EVE MULLEN Assistant Professor, Pierce Program in Religion, Oxford College of Emory University [email protected] [email protected] EDUCATION TEMPLE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION, PH.D., 1999; M.A., 1996 Dissertation title: "Tibetan Buddhism, American Interests: Influences upon the Lay and Monastic Relationship in New York's Tibetan Buddhist Immigrant Community." Dissertation committee chair: Dr. Lucy Bregman. Committee: Dr. Robert Schneider, Dr. Nathan Katz, Dr. Gibson Winter. Areas: Tibetan Buddhist Religion and Culture; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Religion and the Psychology of Individual and Corporate Grief and Loss; Ethnicity, Immigration, and Religion in America. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH ASIAN REGIONAL STUDIES, SANSKRIT LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, 1995 Studied with Dr. Ludo Rocher, Dr. Rosane Rocher and Dr. Wilhelm Halbfass. HARVARD UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL, MASTER OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, 1992 Focus: Tibetan Religion and Culture. Studied with Dr. Michael Aris and Ngawang Jorden. Served on the Andover-Harvard Theological Library Committee. Chosen member of Dr. Diana Eck's seminal "World Religions in New England" Research Group, Harvard University, 1991. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY B.A., RELIGION, 1990 Recipient of The Religion Department Scholarship Award for Excellence. Recipient of the R.E. Lee Research Scholarship. President, Amnesty International. Staff Editor, ARIEL Literary Magazine. GRANTS AND AWARDS OXFORD COLLEGE FUNDING FOR THE SUPPORT OF SCHOLARSHIP, 2008. Grant project: Development of effective classroom materials on contemporary interpretive approaches to sacred texts in the world�s religions for Religion 150 �Introduction to Sacred Texts.� With Dr. Florian Pohl. TRADITIONAL FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS PROGRAM, LECTURE GRANT, 2005 � 2006. Awarded in April 2005 by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) U.S. Scholars Program. Country/Region: Indonesia. Duration: February - July 2006. Project: Teaching and advising graduate students in religious studies at the Center for Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Java. Teaching project topics include comparative religions, Asian religious traditions, world religions in Modernity, and methodology. FULBRIGHT SENIOR SPECIALISTS CANDIDATE, 2005 - 2010. Named a candidate on the Senior Specialist Roster in October 2004 by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State (ECA), the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) U.S. Scholars Program. Discipline: American (U.S.) Studies. Specialization: Religion. Additional Expertise: Religion in America, Immigrant/Transnational Studies, Teaching Pedagogy. In the period of 2005 to 2010, foreign institutions may request my services as an expert in religious studies on the Senior Specialists Roster. All travel is funded by Fulbright/CIES. SENIOR SPECIALIST GRANT. Awarded April 2005. Country/Region: Indonesia. Duration: June - August 2005. Project: Curriculum development, assessment of teaching materials, planning academic programs and conferences, and teaching and advising graduate students at the Center for Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Java. Course topics: Chinese Philosophies and Religions, gender roles in China. MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL GRANT, 2004. Project: "Religion and Civil Rights Movements, A Lecture Series," with Drs. Anthony Pinn and Michael Haspel. MSU, Spring 2004. UNITED STATES STATE DEPARTMENT GRANT. SEPTEMBER, 2001. Project: Teaching World Religions in an Islamic Context. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Summer, 2003. MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT, 2002. Project: "Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Symbols: Identity in Transformation," a field research project in San Francisco, CA, March 2003. OUTSTANDING HUMANIST AWARD NOMINATION, 2002. MSU. GUSTAV-PRIETSCH FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS AND IDEOLOGICAL TOLERANCE, GRANT, Universit�t Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany. 1999-2001. MEMBER: SOCIETY OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES OF NORTHERN GERMANY (SOCIETAS OECUMENECA) AND PARTICIPANT: 2000 CONFERENCE, Hamburg, Germany, June, 2000. THEOLOGY FUND SCHOLARSHIPS, Temple University Department of Religion, 1995-1996. Standards for determining awards include scholarly promise and service. TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS, Temple University, 1993-1999. Awards determined in part by the nominee's scholarly work and promise. TEACHING GRANTS AND ASSISTANTSHIPS, Temple University, 1993-1999. Criteria for determining awards include the nominee's teaching abilities and research skills. OUTSTANDING TEACHER AWARD NOMINATION, Temple University, 1997. Nominations for this prestigious award are made anonymously by one's students. TEACHING EXPERIENCE OXFORD COLLEGE, EMORY UNIVERSITY, Department of Religion, 2006 - continuing. Assistant Professor of Religion. Courses: Introduction to Religion, Introduction to Sacred Texts, Asian Religions, Death and Dying in World Religions, Special Topics in Religion. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, Department of Religious Studies, August 2007. Visiting Lecturer. Invited by Dr. David Chidester and Dr. Sibusiso Masondo to guest lecture in the department�s graduate seminar, Religion and Psychology, and Religion and Ecology courses. Topics: Tibetan Buddhism in America, Buddhism and psychology; Ecological perspectives from Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy and Religion, 2001-2006. Assistant Professor. Course subjects: Introduction to Religion, World Religions, Philosophy of Religion, Hinduism and Buddhism, Special Topics in Religion. UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA, Department of Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies, Summer 2003: US State Department Grant Instructor and Advisor. Summer 2005, February - July 2006: Fulbright Instructor. Course subject: Chinese Philosophies and Religions. UNIVERSIT�T HAMBURG, Fachbereich ev. Theologie, 1999-2001. Gastdozentin. Course subjects: Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, Religious Roles in Identity Construction: Christianity, Buddhism and Chinese Philosophies, Asian Religions in Diaspora, Contemporary Theravada. �bung and lecture courses for the Education and Theology Departments. English as a Second Language, K�ln Institut. Research project: the improvement of teaching pedagogy in ethnically and religiously diverse classrooms. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1993-1999. Course subjects: Introduction to Asian Religions, Introduction to World Religions, Religion in America, Death and Dying, Writing and Composition. Course and lecture audiences ranged from traditional college undergraduates to working professionals. Invited as guest lecturer for Dr. Robert Wright's Dissertation Writing, Dr. Lucy Bregman's Death and Dying and Dr. John Raines's Death and Dying. ST. FRANCIS UNIVERSITY, 1998. Religion in America. Organized a successful and well-attended course for non-traditionally aged college students. BEAVER COLLEGE, COMMUNITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM, 1996. Introduction to Islam. Continuing Education program. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, 1997. Psychology and Religion. Taught this upper level undergraduate course introducing such topics as developmental psychology and religion's role in identity construction. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS "Tibetan Religious Expression and Identity: Transformations in Exile," in _ Materializing Religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual_. Elisabeth Arweck, William Keenan (Ed.). Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2006. �Tibetan Buddhists of India,� _Encyclopedia of India_. George Raju Thomas (Ed.). New York: Thomson Gale/Charles Scribner�s Sons, 2006. Book review: _The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture_. John Clifford Holt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). _Journal of Contemporary Religion_ 2 (May 2006). Book review: _Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization_, ed. Linda Learman (University of Hawai'i Press, 2005), _Journal of Asian Studies_ 64:4 (November 2005). "Teaching the Ineffable: Nirguna Brahman in the Philosophy of Religion Classroom," _Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion_ Vol. 10 (October 2005). �Tibetan Buddhist Views on Death: Compassion and Liberation,� in _Death and Dying in World Religions: An Anthology_. Lucy Bregman (Ed.). Boston: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2004. _Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa_. Gordon Mitchell, Eve Mullen (Ed.). M�nster: Waxmann, 2002 (Religion and Society in Transition, Vol. 3). _The American Occupation of Tibetan Buddhism: Tibetans and their American Hosts in New York City_. With a Foreword by Wolfram Weisse. M�nster; New York: Waxmann, 2001 (Jugend - Religion - Unterricht, Vol. 6). "Tibetischer Buddhismus im Westen: Kreative Innovationen am Beispiel der tibetischen Gemeinde in New York City," _Zeitschrift f�r Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft_, 85. Jahrgang, Heft 2 (2001). Book Review: _Atlas of American Diversity_ by Larry Hajime Shinagawa and Michael Jang, UNESCO's MOST _Journal on Multicultural Societies_ 1.2 (1999). "Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film," _The Journal of Religion and Film_ 2.2 (1998). Credited research assistant in Richard Marks's _Bar Kokhba and Traditional Jewish Literature_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS ��We live with just enough to live.� Tibetan Buddhists in the United States,� lecture presented by invitation from the Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, August 22, 2007. �Women, Men, and the Ideal of Non-Dualism in Buddhism and Taoist Philosophy,� paper presented by invitation from the United States Embassy, Jakarta, and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia, March 29, 2006. �The Changing Role of the Vajrayana in the Good Death: Tibetan Buddhist Liberation in Modernity,� paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Death Dying and Beyond Consultation, Philadelphia, November 2005. �A Cycle of Estrangement: The Tibetan Sangha and the Tibetan Lay Community in the United States,� paper accepted for presentation at the Hawaii International Conference for Social Sciences, Area Studies and Cross-Cultural (Asian Religions in America) section, Honolulu, June 2005. "Buddhist Identity Generators: Praxis and Reflexivity," paper presented by invitation from Elon University, Asia-Pacific Studies Group, Elon, North Carolina, April 4, 2003. "Tibetan Religious Expression," paper presented at the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Annual Conference, Oxford, England, April 2001. "The Dalai Lama and Rangzen: Changing Symbols," paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Tibetan and Himalayan Religions section, Denver, November 2001. "Der Buddhismus und der Westen," Gustav-Prietsch-Stiftung Lecture, Fachbereich evangelische Theologie, Universit�t Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, May 25, 2000. "Religion's Role in Identity Construction: One Buddhist Community," paper presented by invitation from Philipps-Universit�t, Marburg, Germany, May 9, 2000. "Identity and the Tibetan Buddhist Diaspora in North America," paper presented (proxy) at the International Association for the History of Religions Conference, Durban, South Africa, August 2000. MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Member: International Association for Buddhist Studies, 2007- continuing. Member: American Academy of Religion, 1992- . Member: Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1998- . Member: Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, 2001- . Co-chair, Sacred Space in Asia Group, American Academy of Religion. 2007. Chair, �Sacred Space in China� panel, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, November 2007. Referee, _Journal of Religion and Popular Culture_, 2007. Wrote formal critiques of submitted articles on the topic of Buddhism and popular film. Respondent: �Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia� Consultation, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2005. Steering Committee Member: �Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia� Consultation, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2005. Certified in Human Subjects Education, 2008. Chair, "Augustine and Nagarjuna," panel convened at the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion's "Mysticism, Reason, Art and Literature: East West Perspectives" Conference, Calcutta, India, July 30 - August 2, 2002. Chair, "Ritual in Popular Film," "Ritual and Identity Formation," panels convened at the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Annual Conference, Oxford, England, April 2001. Chair and creator, "In the Context of America: Religion's Role in National and Political Identities," panel convened at the AAR Regional Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, February 1999. Referee, _Culture and Religion_, Spring, 2000. Edited submissions for the British journal, wrote formal critiques of submitted articles on the topics of religion in America, Post-Colonial critique and Orientalist debates. Staff Critical Reader, _Schuylkill Journal_, 1997-1999. Edited submissions, wrote formal, constructive critiques of scholarly and creative works for submitting authors. _Schuylkill_ Conference Committee Member, 1998-1999. Planned annual March conference, reviewed proposed panels and papers, and organized final panels and papers. CONTINUED REFLECTION ON TEACHING Guest speaker, Oxford College Faculty Technology Forum. Topic: Using Blackboard as an Effective Teaching Tool at Oxford College. January 18, 2008. Participant, Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts (IPLA). Oxford College. Sections: Writing across the Curriculum and Writing to Learn; and Teaching and Information Technology. May 2007. �Teaching in Disaster� Roundtable presentation and discussion at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section, San Diego, November 2007. Participant, Emory University Teaching Retreat at Callaway Gardens, March 2007. Topics of interest: facilitating sound mentor-student relationships, writing in the classroom, performance assessment. "Teaching the Ineffable: Nirguna Brahman in the Western Philosophy of Religion Classroom," paper presented at The Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion Conference, Calcutta, India, August 2002. Lecturer for the Teaching About Japan Workshop, an MSU-sponsored educational event for area schoolteachers. Topic: Japanese Religions. June 2002. "Buddhism and Western Pop Culture in the Classroom: Exposing Orientalism," paper presented at the AAR Annual Meeting, Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion section, Denver, November 2001. CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Member, International Association for Buddhist Studies (IABS) Conference Planning Committee, Emory University. This large, international conference will be hosted by Emory University in June 2008. 2007 � 2008. Member, Sense of Place Committee, Oxford College. 2008. Member, Lyceum Series Planning Committee, Oxford College. 2008. Guest speaker in D. Nisbet�s German 301. Topic: The Concept of Samsara in Hermann Hesse�s _Siddhartha_. January 25, 2008. Philosophy Search Committee. Oxford College. Fall 2007 � Spring 2008. Freshman Seminar Faculty Advisor. Facilitators: Sasha Jiwani and David Vaughan. Fall 2007. Participant, The Installation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as Distinguished Professor at Emory University. Served as one of several Oxford College representatives. October 22, 2007. Guest speaker and film host, Emory University Tibetan Film Festival, _Dreaming Lhasa_. October 10, 2008. Co-organizer, �Selfhood and Personhood: An Intra-Hindu Dialogue,� a talk by Dr. Douglas Berger of Southern Illinois University. Sponsored by the Pierce Program in Religion and Oxford Studies, Oxford College. October 1, 2007. Co-organizer, "HIV, AIDS & Islam: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice," a talk by Dr. Farid Esack of Harvard University. Sponsored by the Pierce Program in Religion, Oxford College. March 26, 2007. Faculty Dinner Club Host, Oxford College. March 20, 2007. Guest speaker, Oxford College Alpha Epsilon Upsilon Honor Society. Robes Day Banquet. Topic: Graduate School: Experiences and Advice. February 27, 2007. Guest speaker, Oxford College Freshman Seminar. Topic: Religious Tolerance. November 8, 2006. Guest speaker, Oxford College Interfaith Council. Topic: Meditation. October 4, 2006. Religion Curriculum Committee Chair, Mississippi State University, 2001-2006. Faculty Member, Mississippi State University President�s Commission on the Status of Women, 2005-2006. Member/Honors Program Representative, Mississippi State University Calendar Committee, 2004-2006. Organizer for Department of Philosophy and Religion's Visiting Lecturer Event: Anthony Pinn on Black Theology and Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era. February 2004. Organizer for Department of Philosophy and Religion's Visiting Lecturer Event: Michael Haspel on Theology and Social Ethics: a Comparison between the Black Civil Rights Movement in America and East German Churches. April 2004. Organizer for Department of Philosophy and Religion's Visiting Lecturer Event: Farid Esack on Islamic Theology and Muslim-Christian Dialogue. January 2002. Member, Task Force on Academic Code of Conduct, MSU, 2002-2006. Steering Committee Member for MSU's Symposium on Academic Honesty and Integrity. March 2002. Japanese Club, Mississippi State University, 2001. Guest Lecturer for topics in Japanese religions. Steering Committee Member for Mississippi State University's Day of Diversity Forum: "Mending Rifts: Beyond Stereotypes of Islam," October 29, 2001. Graduate Students' Association Representative, Temple University Department of Religion, 1992-1993. Liaison to Faculty Committee. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER SERVICE Chair: Parks, Trees and Recreation Committee, Oxford, Georgia. 2008 � continuing. Member: Parks, Trees and Recreation Committee, Oxford, Georgia. 2006 - 2007. Guest speaker, Allen Memorial Church, Oxford, Georgia. World Communion Sunday, 2007. Member: Oxford Historical Shrine Society, Oxford, Georgia. 2006 - continuing. Guest speaker, First Presbyterian Church, Covington, GA. Topic: Buddhism. September 17, 2006. �Disaster: How Do We Cope?� a forum series of three panels and discussion sessions sponsored by the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center and Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University. Inspired by the need to respond to the psychological and religious counseling needs of victims of Hurricane Katrina. Panel member, November 16, 2005. Rangoli Competition Judge, 2005 Diwali Festival. Invited by the India Students Association at MSU. October 24, 2005. Gerakan Peduli Anak Aceh, Aceh Children�s Relief, Indonesia. 2005 � 2007. Sponsor for children orphaned by the tsunami in Aceh Province. Students for a Free Tibet. 2002-2006. Advisor for MSU's student chapter. Philadelphia and New York City, 1998- 2000. Educated the public about Tibetan history and the contemporary Tibetan human rights situation. Shades of Gray. 2002-2006. Co-advisor for the education and action group at MSU. Tibet House New York, 1997-1998. Worked as administrative assistant and staff editor of publications. U.S.-Tibet Committee and Resettlement Program, Boston, 1991. Assisted newly arrived Tibetan immigrants in job and housing searches in the Boston area. TEACHING COMPETENCIES World Religions, Asian Religions, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and Society, Hinduism, Chinese Religious History, Religion in America, Religion and Psychology, Popular Culture and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Women and Religion, Post-colonial Studies, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Identity Theory, Religious Roles in Identity Construction. RESEARCH INTERESTS Buddhism in America, Buddhism and identity construction, religion and identity construction in transitional environments, Buddhist monasticism, paradigms for religion and society in Modernity, teaching pedagogy, team-teaching pedagogy. LANGUAGES Tibetan, Sanskrit, French and German. First Language: English. REFERENCES Available upon request. |
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