Education. Professional Experience. Research and Scholarship

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1 Education Thomas A. Borchert Associate Professor of Religion The University of Vermont 481 Main Street Burlington, VT Phone : thomas.borchert@uvm.edu Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2006 M.A. University of Chicago, 1997 B.A. Swarthmore College, with Honors, 1992 Professional Experience The University of Vermont, Associate Professor of Religion, 2012 to present. Assistant Professor of Religion, August 2006 to ( Introduction to Religion: Asian Traditions, Interpretation of Religion, Religion in China, Religion in Japan, TAP: Religion and Violence in Asia, Religion, Nationalism and the State, Religion, Law and Discipline, Religion and Secularism in the Modern Age ) Mahidol University, Bangkok Thailand, Visiting Research Professor, International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies, December 2013-June Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, Visiting Research Fellow, December 2009 to May Loyola University Chicago, Instructor, Department of Theology, 2004 to ( Introduction to Buddhism ) The University of Chicago, Alma Wilson Teaching Fellow in the College, Winter ( Buddhism in Contemporary China ) Wat Chetuphon Buddhist Secondary School, Chiang Mai, Thailand, ESL instructor, JET Program(me), Hokkaido Board of Education, Hokkaido, Japan, ESL Instructor. Asahikawa North High School; Asahikawa-City, 1993 to 1994; Soya Board of Education, Wakkanai-City, 1992 to Research and Scholarship Books Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China s Southwest Border, University of Hawai i Press. Under Contract and in production. Forthcoming May 2017 Journal Articles (peer-reviewed) The Buddha s Precepts on Respecting Other Races and Religions? Thinking about the Relationship of Race/Ethnicity and Theravāda Buddhism. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 29: 3 (2014): pp Monastic Labor: Thinking about the Work of Monks in Contemporary Theravada Communities. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 79: 1 (March 2011): pp The Abbot s New House: Thinking about how Religion Works among Buddhists and Minorities in Contemporary China. Journal of Church and State 52: 1 (2010): pp Worry for the Dai Nation: Sipsongpanna, Chinese Modernity and the Problems of Buddhist Borchert CV Page 1 of 8

2 Modernism. Journal of Asian Studies 67: 1 (February, 2008): pp Cited as a Top 10 most cited article; April 3, [ Buddhism, Politics and Nationalism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Religion Compass 1: 5 (2007): pp Training Monks or Men: Theravāda Monastic Education, Subnationalism and the National Sangha of China. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 28: 2 (2005): pp Book Chapters (peer-reviewed) Conscripts of Chinese Modernity? Transformations of Theravada Buddhism in Southwest China. In Theravada Buddhist Encounters with Modernity, edited by Steven Collins and Juliane Schober. Routledge. Forthcoming In Defense of Dharma: Reflections on Buddhism and Politics, co-authored with Ian Harris, for Teaching Buddhism, edited by Gary DeAngelis and Todd Lewis. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, On Being a Monk and a Citizens in Thailand and China. In Buddhism and the Political Process, edited by Hiroko Kawanami. London: Palgrave MacMillan, Pp Buddhism. In Understanding the Religions of the World, edited by Willoughby H. Deming. Wiley Blackwell, 2015 (61-114). Monk and Boy: Becoming a Novice in Contemporary Sipsongpannā. In Buddhist Children, edited by Vanessa Sasson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Pp Of Temples and Tourists: The Effects of the Tourist Political Economy on a Minority Buddhist Community in Southwest China. In State, Market and Religion in Chinese Societies edited by Joseph Tamney and Fenggang Yang. Leiden: Brill, Pp Review Essays, Anthologies, Bibliographies Buddhism and Religious Freedom: a sourcebook. Edited and wrote introduction for sourcebook of Buddhist texts about freedom of religion from Buddhist history, for the Berkeley Center at Georgetown, forthcoming History and Diversity of Religions, in On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Religion, edited by Michel Tibyarenc and Francisco Ayala. Elsevier pp Scratching the Surface of Religion and Religion in Contemporary China: A Review of Anthologies on Religion in Reform Era People s Republic of China. Religious Studies Review, 38: 3 (September 2012). Pp Sangha, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Buddhism. Ed. Richard Payne. New York: Oxford University Press, [peer-reviewed] Buddhisms of French Indochina: Reconsidering Buddhist Modernities and Buddhist Nationalisms in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Religious Studies Review, 35: 4 (2009): pp Book Reviews Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein and Christian Meyer, eds, Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China: Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800-Present (Leiden: Brill 2014). Journal of Chinese Religions 44, 1 (2016): Justin McDaniel, The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand (Columbia UP, 2011). History of Religions 55, 3 (2016): Pattana Kitiarsa, Mediums, Monks and Amulets: Thai Popular Buddhism Today (Silkworm Books, 2012), in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 29: 1 (2014). Jason Carbine, Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition Borchert CV Page 2 of 8

3 (Berlin/New York: DeGruyter, 2011), in Journal of Contemporary Religion 28: 3 (October 2013), Anne Blackburn, Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka (University of Chicago Press, 2010), in Journal of Religion 92: 2 (April, 2013), Francesca Tarocco, The Cultural Practices of Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma (London: Routledge, 2007), in Religious Studies Review 38: 1 (March 2012). James Taylor, Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand: the Religiosity of Urban Space (Ashgate, 2008), in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 42:3 (October 2011). Aiwha Ong, Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2006) and Anna Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton University Press, 2005), in Crossroads 19: 2 (2010). Donald K. Swearer. Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand (Princeton University Press, 2004), in Journal of Religion 87: 3 (July 2007). Jonathan Walters, Jacob Kinnard and John Holt. Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia (SUNY, 2002), in Journal of Asian Studies 63: 2 (May 2004). Alan Klima, The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand (Princeton University Press, 2002), in Journal of Religion 84: 1 (January 2004). Rosalind Morris, In Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand (Duke University Press, 2000), in Journal of Religion 81:3 (July 2001). Bruce Kapferer, The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power (University of Chicago Press, 1997), in Sociology of Religion 60 (Spring 1999). Kamala Tiyavanich, Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth Century Thailand (University of Hawai i Press, 1997), in Journal of Religion 78: 4 (October 1998). Blog Posts Monks, Nuns and Sons, posted to Religion@uvm, October 2015 Imperfect Refuge, posted to Tricycle May 2015 Monks, Politics and Anti-Politics, posted to Religion@uvm, December 2014 A Good Gift from not to- a Monk, posted to Religion@uvm, October 2014 Bad Gifts, posted to Religion@uvm, October 2014 ( Coups and Conversations, posted to Religion@UVM, June 2014 ( Buddhist Monks and Politics in Thailand, posted to Religion@UVM, May 2014 ( Four Letter Words: Monk, posted to New Mandala, August 2009 ( Wat Luang Sipsongpanna: a follow-up report, posted to New Mandala July 2009 ( Burmese Monastic Uprising, posted to Deathpower October 2007 ( Manuscripts under review or in progress Sangha, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Submitted for Review. Shifts in Buddhist Authority in Sipsongpanna under Chinese Colonialism. For inclusion in Theravāda Communities and Colonial Contexts. Theravāda Communities and Colonial Contexts (editor), to be submitted to Routledge s Critical Studies in Buddhism series. Bad Gifts: How Theravada Monks deal with Inappropriate Dana and the Consequences for Discipline, to be submitted to Journal of Contemporary Religion as a special issue, Politics and Ethics of Religious Giving. Borchert CV Page 3 of 8

4 Politics and Ethics of Giving in Asia, co-editing special issue of Journal of Contemporary Religion Peer-reviewed Conference Papers International Bad Gifts: How Theravada Monks Deal with Inappropriate Dana and the Consequences for Discipline, The Ethics of Religious Giving in Asia, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore. October 9-10, A New Buddhist Cosmopolitanism? Buddhist Pedagogical Networks and Institutions in Contemporary Asia, Inter-Asian Connections III (sponsored by University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore and the SSRC). Hong Kong, June Monastic Citizens: a Preliminary Discussion of National and Religious Identity in China and Thailand. Buddhism and the Political Process, University of Toronto, April 14, Race, Ethnicity and Theravada Buddhism: Comparing Minority Buddhisms in Singapore and Southwest China. International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Mountain, Taiwan, June Intra-Asian Colonialisms and Buddhist Authority in Sipsongpannā under Chinese Colonialism. Theravada Buddhism under Colonialism: Response and Adaptation, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS, Singapore May Governance and Modernity in Monastic Education in Nineteenth Century Thailand and Twentyfirst Century Sipsongpanna. 10 th International Conference on Thai Studies, January 2008, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Learning to Walk: Discipline in Monastic Education. South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion (IAHR affiliate), May 2007, Bangkok Thailand. Sanghas without Borders? Thai Monks in Sipsongpanna and Dai-lue Monks in Thailand. 9 th International Conference on Thai Studies, Northern Illinois University, April 2005, DeKalb, IL. Educating Monks to be Dai, Educating Dai to be Monks. International Association of Buddhist Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, December National Respondent, Monks at the Crossroads: Monastics Refiguring the Borders of the Theravāda Imaginary, Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March Respondent, Negotiating Majority and Minority Religious Communities in Sri Lanka, Singapore and America. Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March Respondent for Chinese Religions in Southeast Asia. American Academy of Religion, Chicago November, State of the Field Roundtable: Ethnographic Approaches to Buddhism. Roundtable participant, American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November National Identity, Pan-Asianism and Theravada Buddhist Monastic Networks. Association for Asian Studies, March 2011, Honolulu, HI. A Temple of Their Own? Minority Buddhists, Economic Development and Autonomy in Southwest China. American Academy of Religion, November 2009, Montreal. Children and Buddhism. Roundtable participant, American Academy of Religion, November 2009, Montreal. Monastic Labor and Lay Support in a Chinese Theravada Society. Association for Asian Studies, March 2009, Chicago, IL. Monastic Labor: Preliminary Thoughts about the Work of Theravada Monks. American Academy of Religion, November 2008, Chicago, IL. Communist Control, Capitalist Development: The Fragility of Autonomy in Monastic Education Borchert CV Page 4 of 8

5 in the Contemporary PRC. Association of Asian Studies, April 2008, Atlanta, GA. Normal Religion, Feudal Superstition, and Evil Cults: The Consequences of Official Discourse on Religion in Reform Era China. American Academy of Religion, November 2007, San Diego, CA. Tourists and Temples: Exploring the Effect of the Tourism Market on the Theravada Monks of Southwest China. Social Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, October 2004, Kansas City, MO. Theravada Monastic Training in the Chinese National Sangha. American Academy of Religion, November 2004, San Antonio, TX. Religion, Feudal Superstition and Evil Cults: Discourse on Religion and Ethnicity in Southwest China. Association for Asian Studies, March 2004, San Diego, CA. Whose Orient? Sipsongpanna Buddhism in Chinese and Thai Academic Discourse. American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, November Making Novices: Dai-lue Novices in Shanghai, Thailand and Chinese Public Schools. Association for Asian Studies, New York City, March Regional Respondent for Echoes, Reverberations and Returns: Buddhism in Contemporary Asia. New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, November 2010, Burlington, VT. Neither Lokiya nor Lokuttara: Notes Toward a Politics of Theravāda Buddhism. Informal Roundtable Session, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2006, Chicago, IL. Monks without Borders: An Initial Examination of Buddhism in Post-Mao Sipsongpanna. Council on Thai Studies Annual Conference, Northern Illinois University, September Invited Paper Presentations Thai Monks, Freedom of Speech, and the Ability to Speak in a Time of Protests, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 4, Clashing Civilizations? Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Bangkok, Sipsongpannā Buddhist Forum, Jing Hong, Yunnan Province, China. February 18, Thai Monks, Free Speech and Research during a Coup, Global Village, University of Vermont, September Privileges, Rights and Responsibilities: Reflections on Citizenship and Thai Monks, Keynote speaker, Theravāda Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March The Dai of Yunnan: Theravāda Buddhism in China, National Museum of Thailand, June Buddhism and Politics in Asia, College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University, March Cooperation or Conflict? Thinking about the Implication of National and Religious Identity of Monks in Thailand, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, March Cosmopolitan Practices and Monastic Education in Contemporary Buddhism. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, March Conflict or Cooperation? Considering Monks as Citizens in Kunming, Sipsongpanna and Bangkok International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies, Mahidol University, January Race, Ethnicity and Theravada Buddhism in Singapore and Sipsongpannā. Religion Department Colloquium, University of Vermont, October A New Buddhist Cosmopolitanism? Buddhist Pedagogical Networks and Institutions in Contemporary Asia. Buddhist Studies Workshop, Harvard University, October The Dai of Yunnan: Theravāda Buddhism in China. Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, April 7, Negotiations, Politics and Religion in Southwest China: Building a New Central Temple for the Daizu, and some of its Consequences. Harvard University Seminar on Chinese Religions, Borchert CV Page 5 of 8

6 October Relocating the Center of a Sangha: Minority Buddhists, Local Politics and the Construction of a New Temple in Southwest China. Place/No Place: Spatial Aspects of Urban Asian Religiosity, Syracuse University, October Passing as Thai, Mistaken as Tibetan: Transnational Monastic Education and What it Means for Buddhism. Triangle East Asia Consortium Conference, Duke University, September The Fragility of Autonomy: Ethnicity in China. Brown Bag Lunch, Area and International Studies, UVM, April Buddhism, Education and History in Sipsongpanna. Preserving Minority Cultures in the Golden Triangle Conference, July 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Fellowships, Grants and Honors Lattie Coor Humanities Center Programming Grant, , supporting conference, Buddhism Humanities and Ethnographic Methods, University of Vermont, April 29-30, Fulbright Senior Fellowship (Thailand), Blakemore Foundation Language Refresher Grant 2013 Advanced Study in Thai, Chiang Mai University, June-August, Faculty Research Support Grant, University of Vermont, Inter-Asia III: Religious Networks and the Transmission of Knowledge, workshop participant, Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Science-SSRC, June Lattie Coor Humanities Faculty Development Fund, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies-Buddhist Lodge Fellowship, focused on Buddhist Networks in Asia, Spring Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago, winter Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, Junior Fellowship, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, Dissertation Fellowship, Title VI (FLAS) Summer Language Fellowship (Thai), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fulbright-IIE (China), Title VI (FLAS) Summer Language Fellowship (Thai), University of Wisconsin-Madison, CIC-FLEP Summer Language Fellowship (Thai), University of Oregon, Committee on the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (Chicago), Summer Research Grant, Title VI (FLAS) Summer Language Fellowship (Chinese), Taiwan University-IUP, University of Chicago Divinity School Fellow, Service University of Vermont Faculty Senate: Senator (Spring 2008; ); Member Executive Council (Spring 2016) Curricular Affairs Committee Member ( ) College of Arts and Sciences: Committee Member, CAS Academic Planning and Budgets , Committee Member, Ad hoc First-Year Experience Committee, Spring 2016, Committee Member, Ad Hoc Committee to Review/Revise Bylaws of College of Arts and Sciences, College Parliamentarian ( ) Borchert CV Page 6 of 8

7 Committee Member, CAS Honors Committee Member of Dean s Committee for Aiken Lectures, Religion Department Curriculum Committee, Department of Religion, Committee Member, Islam Search, Department of Religion, Committee Member, Islam Search, Department of Religion, Committee Member, Religions of Africa Search, Department of Religion, Fulbright Interview Committee (Honors College), 2014, 2015 Asian Studies Program, Director, Spring 2012, Academic Community Member, AAR Buddhism Section Steering Committee, Manuscript referee for Stanford University Press (2015); Routledge (2015); Religions (Beijing) 2015; Sojourn: journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) 2015; Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies (ANU) 2015; Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2014); Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (2014); Journal of Contemporary Religion (2014, twice); Modern Asian Studies (2013, twice); Stanford University Press, 2013; Southeast Asian Studies (Center for the Study of Southeast Asia, Kyoto), 2013; Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2013; Asian Ethnology, 2012; AltaMira Press, 2012; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2012; China: an International Journal, 2012; Comparative Political Studies, 2011; History of Religions, 2011; Sojourn: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), 2010; Columbia University Press, 2010; National University of Singapore Press, 2007; SUNY Press, Reviewer, American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship 2009; Franklin Research Grant, 2010, Southeast Asian Buddhism Book Review Editor, H-Buddhism, 2009 to present. Subeditor, East Asian Religion, Religious Studies Review, Thai Lao Cambodian Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies, Executive Council member, ; Graduate Student Board Representative, Workshop coordinator, Buddhisms Across Asia Workshop, University of Chicago, Workshop Participant, Theravada Civilizations, Funded by the Luce Foundation Workshop Participant, Buddhism and Anthropology, Numata Foundation Workshop, University of Toronto, May 1-2, Conferences and Panels Organized Conference Organizer, Buddhism, the Humanities and Ethnographic Methods, University of Vermont, April Echoes, Reverberations and Returns: Buddhism in Contemporary Asia. New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, November 2010, Burlington, VT. Conference Organizer, Theravada Buddhism under Colonialism, ISEAS, Singapore, May 24-25, Monastic Labor: Thinking about the Activities of Monastics in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theravada Societies. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, March 2009, Chicago, IL. Regionalizing Thailand: Studies on the National Organization of Theravāda Buddhism in Honor of Donald K. Swearer. IXth International Conference on Thai Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. April Technologies of Control: Ethnicity, Education, Class and Religion in Thailand and China. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, March 2004, San Diego, CA. Borchert CV Page 7 of 8

8 Community Member, Addison Northwest Supervisory Union School Board, March 2016 to present. Workshop presenter, UVM Asian Studies Outreach, Religion in Japan, April 2013, May 2015; Buddhism in Thailand, April Lecturer, Governor s Institute of Vermont, East Asia, June Coach, Odyssey of the Mind, Vergennes Union Elementary School, ; Public Speaking Facilitator, Thai Diplomatic Communication Skills Workshop, Sponsored by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, March Religious Advisory Board, Boerhinger-Ingelheim. New York City, March Panelist, Religion in the US election, Phi Betta Kappa presentation, February 2008, UVM. Workshop presenter, Northeast Council of Teachers of East Asia, Religion and the State in East Asia, February 2015; Religion in East Asia, February Presentations on China, Japan and Thailand to Vergennes Union Elementary School, Languages Modern Chinese, Thai and Dai-lue; Pali, Sanskrit, French (Reading) Borchert CV Page 8 of 8