A new article from Vanderbilt assistant professor Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social on Buddhist preta or "hungry ghost" stories. I love this topic and her book! "These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior." Accessible link

Pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture: “We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) April 18, 2025 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx

Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Harsha Gautam (@utaustin.bsky.social) for the 2nd lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series. March 21, 2025 10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams) Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p

Friends: I'm filing for tenure this semester and I'm collecting proof of impact for my research. If you have taught any of my work, I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy of the syllabus to include in the file!

NEW QR CODE! Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series. February 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f

JOB: Tenure-track position at Spelman College in African American Religions with subfields including (but not limited to) womanist theology/ethics, African religious traditions in the diaspora, queer studies in religion, decolonial studies in religion, and/or science and religion. Deadline: 3/10

Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series. February 28, 2025 10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom) Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f

Spring talks as part of @adeanamcn.bsky.social and my new Buddhism and Caste Initiative! (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste

I'm so glad to be able to share that we've created a 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion on Buddhism and Caste. Please send in proposals for individual papers as well as panels and roundtables!

Friends: I'm filing for tenure this semester and I'm collecting proof of impact for my research. If you have taught any of my work, I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy of the syllabus to include in the file!

TODAY: Nov 25, 5PM Friends (esp. #BuddhistStudies!) who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_ Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)

11. Author meets critics roundtable: Ralph H. Craig III: Dancing in My Dreams: A spiritual biography of Tina Turner. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm with @rhcraig.bsky.social 12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm.

Looking forward to presenting this weekend at AAR this weekend alongside some brilliant scholars, such as @nwitkowski.bsky.social, @adeanamcn.bsky.social, and others!

Nov 25, 5PM, Friends who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_ Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)

Obligatory cat photo for the new followers. She sat in foster care for a year and a half before I met her--people really missed out on this sweet chaos demon.

Reading with admiration @privatechand.bsky.social's new article in CSSH, "Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries" - friends in Religious Studies and Buddhist Studies - pls be sure to read!

My #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, is currently on sale for #SBLAAR24. Use promo code EXAAR24 for 40% off at Oxford University Press: oxford.ly/40uQpHm

I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/zUV84F

My #Buddhism book on #hungryghosts is currently on sale on the OUP website! Use code AUFLY30 to save 30%. global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909

Dear Friends, Prof. Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself are co-coordinating an exciting NEW project: the Buddhism and Caste Initiative. If you support this critical work, do sign-up for our first speaker series ('24–'25) via QR code below, and share poster widely! #BuddhismAndCaste

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jessica Zu for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social this week. You can find the podcast episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/adeana-mcnic...

It's spooky month, so OUP made the first chapter of my #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, free to read for the month of October. This chapter traces the origin of the #hungryghost and, with it, Buddhist cosmology. Link here: academic.oup.com/book/58038/chapter/477477607

Job alert: Vanderbilt's Asian Studies department is searching for a TT Assistant Professor in Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies apply.interfolio.com/154998

It's official, Of Ancestors and Ghosts is now released! This #Buddhism book traces the origin of the "hungry" ghost and, with it, Buddhist cosmology. It then turns to what ghosts tell us about karma, ethics, and human embodiment. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My book has arrived! And just in time for Nashville's Vietnamese celebration of the ghost festival. It's so cool and surreal to be finally holding this in my hands. (+ obligatory cat, she likes being included)

While my book isn't "officially" out for another couple of weeks, the ebook is now available and it is now shipping through OUP! If you like #Buddhist narratives, cosmology, karma, caste, gender, and aesthetics you might be interested. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This week Buddhists are celebrating the Ghost Festival, when hungry ghosts visit the land of the living to receive offerings from their family. My new book traces the early origins of these beings, showing how they've always been connected to the ancestral departed. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Obligatory "Just in time for the new academic year, my book on Buddhist preta narratives is through production and will be available in August" post (I'm very happy with this cover!) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

While going through my book proofs I found a garbled word that could have no other explanation than a cat walking on the keyboard ("15romm")

Checking proofs is a good time to introduce my new friend. Her name is Rekha, AKA Charlie Catlin, and dont be fooled by her cuteness because she's an absolute menace.

On my desk this week: the proofs for my book coming out this August! If you're a fan of gross ghost stories (or ghost-human relationships) the book is available for pre-order: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Black Buddhism Faculty Project of the Princeton University Center for Culture, Society, and Religion has put together a research guide on Black Buddhism. Take a look! libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=1386...

Check out the AAR's Black History Month reading list, which includes two excellent and essential books on Buddhism, @rhcraig.bsky.social's religious biography of Tina Turner, "Dancing in My Dreams," and Rima Vesely-Flad's "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition" (which I recently reviewed).

Lyft driver: there's a big religion conference in town Me: oh really? That's interesting

11/19 #AAR2023 join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and me for roundtable (12:30-2:30PM Convention Center 221-D), "Is There a #Buddhism Without #Caste?: An Interdisciplinary Conversation," featuring Natalie Avalos Sonam Kachru Upayadhi S. Luraschi Lucinda Ramberg Mekhola Gomes Anupama Rao Rohit Singh

New social media account. Maybe it's time to rebrand and turn it into a cat account? (Except I almost exclusively take unflattering photos)