Justin McDaniel, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Thailand, Laos, Buddhism

Justin McDaniel's recent activities include talks presented at the Association of Asian Studies, American Academy of Religion, International Association of Buddhist Studies, American Oriental Society, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley, Ohio University, University of Michigan, UCLA, Chulalongkorn University among others. He is the present Chair of the Thailand/Laos/Cambodia Studies Group of the Association of Asian Studies and the Editor for the Journal "Buddhism Compass." His latest publications (2005-2006) appear in various journals including:

• “The Art of Reading and Teaching Dhammapadas: Reform, Texts, Contexts in Thai Buddhist History,” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (2006).



• “Modern Buddhism in Thailand.” In Buddhism in WorldCultures: Comparative Perspectives. Ed. By Steven Berkwitz. Santa Barabara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.



• “A Lao Homily: the Kammavaca Nissaya Sadda,” Ecole Français de Extrême-Orient (Paris and Vientiane), Etudes thématiques Laos (2006).



• “Questioning Orientalist Power: Buddhist Monastic Education in Colonial Laos.” In Collected Papers of the First International Conference on Lao Studies. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.



• “Notes on the Lao Influence on Northern Thai Buddhist Literature,” In Collected Papers of the First International Conference on Lao Language and Literature. Vientiane: National Library of Laos Press, 2006.



• “Buddhist Texts and the Ritual Construction of a Fetus,” In Imagining the Fetus, ed. by Vanessa Sasson (edited volumeunder consideration from Oxford University Press).



• “An Interesting Burmese Manuscript of the Culavamsa” Newsletter of the Fragile Palm-Leaves Manuscript Project 9 (2006).



• “Notes on the Study of Pali Grammar in Thailand.” In Papers in Honour of W.S. Karunatillake. Ed. by Suzanne Mrozick. Title TBA. (2005).



• Justin McDaniel, “The Wayside Shrine of Somdet Toh,” In Wayside Shrines. Ed. by Selva Raj. (under consideration by publisher)



• “Review of Donald Swearer’s Becoming the Buddha.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.” Journal of the History of Religions (2005).