I received my Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. The following year, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute. My research focuses on religion and the body in Japan. I have publish...More
I received my Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. The following year, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute. My research focuses on religion and the body in Japan. I have published on the nexus of Chinese and Buddhist medical knowledge in premodern Japan. Other articles have dealt with the influence of Buddhist ideas and practices on conceptions of old age in early and medieval Japan. This is also the topic of my book with the University of Hawai'i Press: "Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan." I have recently returned to works in progress dealing with the impact of religion and culture on attitudes toward senile dementia in modern and contemporary Japan.
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Aging and Social Change
