Assistant Director of Graduate Studies: Hwansoo Kim
Teaching Faculty in Asian Religions: Eric Greene, Hwansoo Kim, Supriya Gandhi
Related faculty in other Departments:
- Lucas Bender (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
- Daniel Botsman (History)
- Rohit De (History)
- Valerie Hansen (History)
- Subashini Kaligotla (Art History)
- Denise Leidy (Yale Art Gallery, Curator of Asian Art)
- Aleksandar Uskokov (South Asian Studies)
- Mimi Yiengpruksawan (History of Art)
Description of the Program
The goal of the program is to train scholars and teachers of Asian religions with a primary competence in one tradition and geographical focus and a strong secondary competence in another Asian religion and geographical focus.
Students will do their thesis work in one area, while also taking courses in the second area. Thus a student doing thesis work on Chinese or Japanese Buddhism is expected to take courses on Indian and/or Tibetan religions, and a student concentrating on India will do some advanced course work on East Asian Buddhism. The intention is to allow students to have a broad acquaintance with developments in the study of Asian religions in general in addition to the more in-depth work required for research.
Contact Information
The Department of Religious Studies
P.O. Box 208287
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8287
hwansoo.kim@yale.edu