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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS Effective July 2008, Dr. Prebish became Director of the Religious Studies Program. Charles Prebish recently published two refereed articles: "Cooking the Buddhist Books: The Implications of the New Dating of the Buddha for the History of Early Indian Buddhism" in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008), 1-21; and "Can Buddhist Monastic Ethics Serve Modern Society?" in the Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace 1 (2007), 29 pages (online journal). He also published a chapter, "Family Life and Spiritual Kinship in American Buddhist Communities," in American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization & Democracy. Edited by Don S. Browning and David L. Clairmont. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, 185-196. He published a popular article called "A Lotus in Mormon Land," in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly 7.1 (Fall 2008), 58-62. In 2008, he also presented two papers at scholarly meetings: "Cooking the Buddhist Books: Implications of the New Dating of the Buddha for the History of Early Indian Buddhism," at the American Oriental Society annual meeting in Chicago, March 2008; and "North American Buddhist Studies: A Current Survey of the Field," at the XVth Meeting of the International Association of Buddhist Studies in Atlanta (Emory University), June 2008. He is serving as co-editor of a festschrift in honor of Damien Keown called Destroying Mara Forever: Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown, which will be published by Snow Lion Publications. Prebish
continues as a member of the Editorial Board of Buddhist Studies
Review, on the National Editorial Advisory Board of Religious
Studies Review, and the Advisory Board of H-Buddhism. He also
serves as Co-Editor of the Routledge World Religions Textbook Series
and the Journal of Buddhist Ethics eText Project. In July 2008 Dr. Jones stepped down as Director of Religious Studies and began his sabbatical. Elected a Senior Visiting Research Fellow by Jesus College, Oxford University, he will spend the academic year 2008-9 in Oxford. Jesus College has a number of fellows who are leading students of the English Reformation, and Jones will be working with them and with their research students. He intends to write a book whose working title is "Managing Elizabethan England," an exploration of how the Elizabethan regime managed to prevent a religious civil war at a time when all of its neighbors were convulsed by them. This book grows out of the work he did for his book The English Reformation, Religion and Cultural Adaptation. His most recent book is Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Co-edited with Daniel Woolf. London: Palgrave, 2007. Philip Barlow responded often to the Press concerning Mormonism and broader questions of religion and politics during the recent campaign of U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. He was cited in such papers as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune, and Logan’s Herald Journal. He published a related and commissioned article, "When Romney was a Bishop," in Religion in the News (Winter 2008, Vol. 10, No. 3), 11-2. He presented four papers at scholarly conferences: "Prospects for the new online 'American Religious Timeline'" at the American Society of Church History annual meeting in Washington, DC., January 2008; a response to a panel of papers, "Designing the Modern Church: Communication and Culture in a Widening World," at the Mormon History Association annual meeting in Sacramento, California, May 2008; "Questions at the Veil" at the Diaspora Mormon Scholars Consultation in Washington D.C., July 2008; and a response to The Mormon Quest for the Presidency (a new book by Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster) at the Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 2008. In February he spoke at the Performance Hall on "Wish-Fulfillment, 'The Opium of the People,' and Terrorism: Is Religion Sick?" This comprised the Inaugural Lecture of the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture, Utah State University. Barlow will present "What It Means," an invited response to Oxford University Press’s new Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald Walker, Richard Turley, and Glen Leonard, in an event at the Salt Lake City Public Library sponsored by The American West Center at the University of Utah and its partners the Charles Redd Center for Western History at BYU, the Mormon History Association, the Tanner Humanities Center, and the Tanner Center for Non-Violent Human Rights, September 5, 2008. With co-author Jan Shipps, Barlow is currently writing Mormonism, a volume to be published by Columbia University Press as part of its Contemporary American Religions Series. In May 2008 he was appointed to the Board of Advisors for the forthcoming "H-Mormon," a new online exchange for scholars of Mormon Studies. Alexa
Sand was recently named an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellow for 2008-09:
for an abstract of the project she will be working on during the
fellowship period, see http://www.acls.org/research/ryskamp.aspx?id=794&linkidentifier=id&itemid=794. Professor Steve Siporin was named director of the Folklore Program at Utah State beginning Fall 2008. His translation of Augusto Segre's memoir from the Italian appeared as Memories of Jewish Life: Italy to Jerusalem, 1918-1960 (University of Nebraska Press, 2008). Siporin’s article entitled “A Contemporary Legend from Italy” was published in the Journal of Folklore Research 45 (2008): 63-84; and his translation entitled "The Rabbi's Family" (also from Augusto Segre) appeared as a chapter in the book and exhibition catalog, Ebrei Piemontesi: The Jews of Piedmont (New York: Yeshiva University Museum, 2008). Professor Siporin was an invited speaker and gave a paper entitled "Mixed Motives: Sustaining and Defining Jewish Heritage in a Small Italian City Today," at the international conference "Modern Jewish Culture: Diversities and Unities," held in Wroclaw, Poland, June 24-26, 2008. He plans to present a paper entitled "Where Does the Parokhet Belong?" at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in Louisville, Kentucky in October 2008 and a paper entitled "The Chocolate Egg and the Diamond Ring" at the international “Metamorphoses” conference in Salt Lake City, also in October. Siporin continues to serve as an editorial board member for the Jewish Cultural Studies Series of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (UK). Dr. Michael Sowder is the new faculty advisor for Utah State’s Religious Studies Club for the academic year 2008-2009. His essay, “Poet in Grizzly Gulch,” is forthcoming in the fall 2008 issue of the upscale Salt Lake City magazine, The Wasatch Journal. Recounting a mountaineering-training course he joined in the mountains above Alta, Utah, the essay comments on the aesthetics of Taoist/Buddhist-inflected poetry of Tang Dynasty China and the Euro-American, eighteenth-century cult of the sublime. He
will be in Moab, Utah, in October, at a conference devoted to the
work of Edward Abbey, presenting a paper on a panel entitled, “The
Earth is on Fire: The Artist in a Time of Global Change.”
Dr. Professor Crapo has recently completed a book manuscript on the anthropology of the Judeo-Christian scriptures and another on the civilizations of the Aztecs and their neighbors. He willl be seeking publishers for these books this year. He is currently working on a manuscript for a text on the anthropology of Mormonism, which he plans to complete this year. As
a member of the anthropology faculty, he continues to teach Anthropology
of Religion.
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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Grant Mark Rasmuson - 2008 Blanche Harris Scholarship Christopher Blythe
- 2008 Blanche Harris Scholarship
- 2008 Blanche Harris Scholarship Jay Burton
- 2008 Blanche Harris Scholarship
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