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UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
°Ph.D.,
earned "With Distinction," in Asian
and Middle Eastern
Studies
(Indic section), May 1998. Dissertation Title:
"Karma and Control: The Prodigious and the
Auspicious in Ívetambara Jaina Canonical
Mythology." Dissertation Committee:
Ludo
Rocher
(Chair), Wilhelm
Halbfass,
William
LaFleur.
Passed qualifying exams in Sanskrit, Prakrit,
and Pali (1988). Coursework with
Ludo
Rocher,
Wilhelm
Halbfass,
Ernest
Bender,
George
Cardona.
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
°M.A.
in Religious
Studies,
1984.
Major
fields:
- Indic
Religion and Philosophy, Sanskrit (Coursework
with Gerald
Larson,
Nandini
Iyer,
Ninian
Smart,
Raimundo
Panikkar,
Andrew
Rawlinson)
- American
Religion and Religious Therapeutics
(Coursework with Philip
Hammond,
Robert S Michaelson)
- Religious
Studies Methodology (Coursework with
Ninian
Smart,
W.
Richard
Comstock,
Juan
Campo,
Gerald
Larson,
M.
Gerald
Bradford)
Master's
Project: on spatial and temporal ranking in the
work of Eliade, Freud, and Weber. Advisor:
Professor Juan
Campo.
Coursework
on Buddhism, Yoga, Samkhya, Vedanta, Sanskrit,
American religion, sociology of religion,
post-structuralist literary crticism, American
popular culture.
UNIVERSITY
OF MONTANA
°Graduate
Non-Degree study, 1981-82. Coursework in German,
Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Spanish. Courses in
Biblical criticism, commentary, and narratology
with Robert
Funk,
audited courses on Native American religious
traditions with Joseph
Epes Brown.
UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO
°A.M.
in Social Science, 1982, from the
Divisional
Master's Program in the Social
Sciences
(Individualized
Study),
on the theme: "Ideology and Utopia." Master's
Thesis: on spatial and temporal ranking in the
work of Max Weber. Advisor: Susanne
Hoeber Rudolph.
Coursework with Edward
Shils,
Helen
Harris Perlman,
Jean
Comaroff,
among others.
Coursework
on the sociology of religion, sociology of
knowledge, sociology of education, and on the
Western Utopian tradition.
°A.B.
with general honors, Anthropology,
1981.
Coursework
and independent study on cultural anthropology,
the social anthropology of civilization,
structuralist and formalist literary criticism,
mythology and folklore, Chicago urban sociology,
the intellectual history of anthropology,
comparative non-Western civilization (theory and
pedagogy), the history of the College of the
University of Chicago civilization core
curriculum. Coursework with George
Stocking,
Bernard
Cohn,
Marshall
Sahlins,
Nancy
Munn,
Wendy
Doniger,
J.
A. B. van
Buitenen,
Terence
Turner,
Milton
Singer,
McKim
Marriott,
Ronald
Inden,
Ralph
Nicholas,
Susanne
Rudolph,
Richard
Taub,
among others.
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