CURRICULUM VITAE. Personal. Higher Education. Experience. 1. Date: July 2, 2018

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Date: July 2, 2018 Personal 2. Name: Justin R. Ritzinger 3. Home Phone: Office Phone: Home Address: 4530 SW 68 th Ct Cir, Miami, FL Current Academic Rank: Assistant Professor 7. Primary Department: Religious Studies 9. Citizenship: USA Higher Education 11. Institutional Harvard University, PhD, 2010 Lawrence University, BA, 1999 Experience 14. Academic University of Miami, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2013-present Ball State University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Oberlin College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies, Non-academic Dharma Drum Mountain, Translator, Taiwan,

2 Publications 18. Books and Monographs Published Justin R. Ritzinger, Anarchy in the Pure Land: Tradition, Modernity, and the Reinvention of the Cult of Maitreya in Republican China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Juried or refereed journal articles or exhibitions Justin R. Ritzinger, Parsing Buddhist Modernity in China: Ten Contrasting Terms, Buddhist Modernities, edited by Hanna Havnevik, et al. London: Routledge Press, 2017 Justin R. Ritzinger, Original Buddhism and Its Discontents: Chinese Buddhist Exchange Monks and the Search for the Pure Dharma in Ceylon, Journal of Chinese Religions 44 (2016), Justin R. Ritzinger, Cide Maitreya s IT Guy, in Buddhist Figures of Modernity, edited by Justin McDaniel, et al, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016). Justin R. Ritzinger, The Awakening of Faith in Anarchism: A Forgotten Chapter in the Chinese Buddhist Encounter with Modernity, Politics, Religion & Ideology 15 (2014): Justin R. Ritzinger, Dependent Co-evolution: Kropotkin s Theory of Mutual Aid and Its Appropriation by Chinese Buddhists, Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 26 (2013): Justin R. Ritzinger and Marcus Bingenheimer, Whole Body Relics in Chinese Buddhism, The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies 7 (2006): Other works, publications and abstracts: Justin R. Ritzinger, Review: Recovering Buddhism in Modern China. H-Buddhism (September 2016). Justin R. Ritzinger, Review: Transforming Consciousness: Yogācāra Thought in Modern China. The Journal of Asian Studies 73 (2014): Justin R. Ritzinger, Qing Religion, in China s Last Empire: The Art and Culture of the Qing Dynasty, edited by Brian Dursum, (Miami: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 2014). Justin R. Ritzinger, If We Build It, He Will Come: Hope, Eschatology and the Modern Reinvention of Maitreya in China, in Hope, a Form of Delusion? (Sankt Ottilien, Germany: EOS, 2013). Chen Bing (author) and Justin R. Ritzinger (translator), Reflections on the Revival of Yogācāra, in The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet, , (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). Justin R. Ritzinger, Review of Carter, James, Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk. H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews. August Justin R. Ritzinger, Review: The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma. Journal of Buddhist Ethics 17 (2010). 2

3 21. Other works accepted for publication: Lacquered Bodies: Whole Body Śarīra as Relic and Image. In Unveiling the Invisible, edited by Donna Strahan. (Forthcoming from Archetype Publications with the Freer Gallery of Art). Under Review Marketing Maitreya: Two Peaks, Three Forms of Capital and the Quest to Establish a Fifth Buddhist Mountain. In Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Sacred Spaces within Global Networks, edited by Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck. (Under review with University of Hawai i Press). Justin R. Ritzinger, Dependent Co-evolution: Kropotkin s Theory of Mutual Aid and Its Appropriation by Chinese Buddhists, in Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism, edited by C. Mackenzie Brown (reprint, under review at Springer). Professional 21. Funded Research Performed Enchanting Modernism, Arts and Humanities Fellowship, 2018, $7500 When Drinking Water, Ponder the Source, Provost s Research Award, 2017, $17500 When Drinking Water, Ponder the Source, University of Wisconsin Friends of the Library Grant, 2017 Imagining the Monastic Ideal in Modern China, Sheng Yen Visiting Scholar, National Chengchih University, Taiwan Fall 2016, 420,000 NT (approx. $13500) Marketing Maitreya, Provost s Research Award, 2015, $ Editorial Responsibilities Book review editor, Journal of Chinese Religions, Book proposal referee for Oxford University Press (2018) Article manuscript referee for Journal of Global Buddhism (2016, 2018), Studies in Chinese Religions (2016), Material Religion (2013), Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies (2013, 2017). 23. Professional and Honorary Organizations American Academy of Religion 1997-present Steering Committee, Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar International Association of Buddhist Studies 2006-present 3

4 Modernities Interdisciplinary Research Group, University of Miami Center for the Humanities, Co-founder and Administrator, Scholars of Buddhist Studies Facebook Page Phi Beta Kappa Vice-president, UM chapter 2017-present 24. Honors and Awards Engaged faculty fellow, Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities, University of Miami 2016 Faculty Fellow, University of Miami Center for the Humanities, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture in Asia, University of Groningen, Denmark Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2009 Academia Sinica Doctoral Fellowship 2008 Sheng Yen Dissertation Fellowship 2008 (declined) Fulbright-Hayes 2007 General exams passed with distinction 2006 Center for the Study of World Religions Doctoral Fellowship Mellon Fellowship 2003 Watson Fellowship 1999 BA summa in course, magna in independent study 1999 Phi Beta Kappa Other Professional Activities Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures Taixu dashi de milejingtu sixiang yu zhongguo fojiao xiandaixing de laiyuan 太虛大師的彌勒 淨土思想與中國佛教現代性的來源 [Master Taixu s Maitreya Pure Land thought and the sources of Chinese Buddhist modernity], to be delivered at Dongya fojiao yu xiandaihu 東亞佛教與現代化 [East Asian Buddhism and Modernization], Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, December (Chinese) When Drinking Water, Ponder the Source: Holmes Welch and the Study of Modern Chinese Buddhism, to be delivered at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religon, Denver, CO, November Karma, Community, and Charisma: Karmic Storytelling in a Blue-Collar Taiwanese Buddhist Community 7th International Chinese Buddhism & Sheng Yen Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July Lacquered Bodies: Whole Body Śarīra as Relic and Image. Unveiling the Invisible: 6th Century Chinese Lacquer Buddhas, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC. March Dangdai jianli mile Xinyang wei di wu da ming shan de jiaojing 當代建立彌勒信仰為第五大 名山的較競 [Competition to be the fifth great mountain in contemporary 4

5 Maitreyanism], Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Jinshan, Taiwan, November (Chinese) Compassion, Contrition, and Community: The Maitreya Lay Buddhist Lodge of Bade, Taiwan, Sheng Yen Education Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism, National Chengchih University, Taipei, Taiwan, November Marketing Maitreya Rival Claims to Build a Fifth Great Buddhist Mountain in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism, Sheng Yen Education Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism, National Cheng-chih University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2016 Devotion to Modernity: The Cult of Maitreya in Republican-era Reformist Buddhism, Sheng Yen Education Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism, National Cheng-chih University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2016 Buddhaland Lost: Chinese Buddhist Exchange Monks Search for the Pure Dharma in Ceylon, Sheng Yen Education Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism, National Chengchih University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2016 The Cult of Maitreya as Lived Religion: Three Lessons, Roundtable on Lived Religion as Theory and Practice: Case Studies and Responses, National Cheng-chih University, Taipei, Taiwan, October Original Buddhism and Its Discontents: The Chinese Buddhist Exchange Monks and the Search for the Pure Dharma in Ceylon, Beyond the Sinosphere. Modalities of Interwar Globalization: Internationalism and Indigenization among East Asian Marxists, Christians, and Buddhists, , Hannover, Germany, July Marketing Maitreya Rival Claims to Be Chinese Buddhism s Fifth Sacred Mountain, Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Sacred Spaces within Global Networks, Oregon State University, May Shi foyuan 失佛園 [Buddhaland lost], East China Normal University, Shanghai, June (Chinese) Original Buddhism and Its Discontents: The Chinese Buddhist Exchange Monks and the Search for the Pure Dharma in Ceylon, Asian Buddhism: Plural Colonialisms and Plural Modernities, Kyōto and Ryukoko Universities, Kyōto, Japan, December Land of the Lost: Chinese Exchange Monks in Ceylon, Bordering the Borderless: Faces of Buddhist Modernism in East Asia, Duke University, October Dependent Co-evolution: Kropotkin s Theory of Mutual Aid and Its Appropriation by Chinese Buddhists (revised), 4th International Sheng Yen Education Foundation Conference, Taipei, June Questioning Karma: Agency and Theodicy in Running on Karma, American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November Hope, Eschatology and the Modern Reinvention of Maitreya in China, European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK, July (Keynote) Ethics, Evolution, and the Buddhist Encounter with Science in China, Difficult Dialogues lecture series, Trinity University, San Antonio, April Dependent Co-evolution: Kropotkin s Theory of Mutual Aid and Its Appropriation by Chinese Buddhists, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November Ritual and Pilgrimage in Buddhism, Treasures from Heaven special exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, October

6 Building Community at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Center for the Study of World Religions 50th Anniversary, Harvard Divinity School, April Jingtu zhi wuzhengfuzhuyizhe 淨土之無政府主義 [Anarchy in the Pure Land] (revised), Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Renmin University, Beijing, April (Chinese) Jingtu zhi wuzhengfuzhuyizhe 淨土之無政府主義 [Anarchy in the Pure Land] Study Group for Works by Specialists in the Humanities, National Taiwan University, December (Chinese) Other conference activities Presider, Seeing Through the Secular Paradigm: Buddhism and the Chinese Revolution, annual meeting of the American Academy of Religon, Denver, CO, November Teaching 28. Teaching Specialization (courses taught): Courses Regularly Taught: One Goal: Transforming the Self Asian Religions; Introduction to Buddhism; Chinese Religions; Activist Bodhisattva: Buddhist Ethics and Social Engagement; Karma; The Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism; Living Stories: Asian Religions and Narrative All courses developed by me Independent Studies Supervised: Buddhist texts in modern Chinese, spring 2018; The Bodhicaryavatara, fall 2014 Cognates developed: Asian Religions: South and East Asia; China Studies (A&H) Service 30. University Committee and Administrative Responsibilities: Non-residential faculty fellow, Eaton House, 2018-present College Council, 2015-present Co-leader, Departmental Majors and Minors Outreach, 2014-present Co-leader, Departmental Publicity, 2015-present Admin, Departmental Facebook Page Member, Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Committee, 2016-present Vice President, 2017-present Member, Departmental Curriculum Task Force, 2014 Member, Chinese Literature and Language Search Committee, Community Activities: 6

7 University Community: Co-organizer with Miami Meditation Center, public lecture by Bill Porter, fall Guest lecture, Buddhism in America, Religion in America (Kling), June 18, 2018 Guest lecture, What to Do with a Dead Body: Mummification, Religious Issues in Death and Dying (Garcia), March 19, Lecture, Karma and the Problem of Evil, Society for the Study of Religion and Culture (UM student organization), March 22, Guest lecture, Origins of Buddhism, Introduction to Hinduism, February 17, Guest lecture, Hot, Noisy Death, Religious Issues in Death and Dying (Walsh), November 17, 2015 Guest discussant, Modernity as a Category in the Study of Chinese Buddhism, Independent Study (Walsh), October 14, Guest lectures, Chinese Religion and Daoism, Introduction to Religion, September 22 and 24, Guest lecture, Buddhism and Religious Policy in the People s Republic, Global Cultures, Religions and Communications, November 4, Departmental colloquium presentation, Land of the Lost: Text, Representation, and Utopia in the Writings of Chinese Exchange Monks in Ceylon, October 3, Guest lectures, The Buddha and His Teachings and Buddhist Cultivation and Sound, Music and Religion, October 20 and 22, Guest lectures, The Buddha and His Teachings and Buddhist Cultivation and Sound, Music and Religion, October 14 and 16, Professional Community: Class appearance via Skype, Meet the Author, University of North Carolina, November 2017 External reviewer for tenure case, Pacific Lutheran University 2016 Miami Community: Volunteer, Miami Chinese Language School 7