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Jason D. Fuller

 

 

AREA OF STUDY:     History of Religions

 

ADDRESS:                  1118 S. 46th Street; Philadelphia, PA 19143

                                    Phone: (267) 251-2201

                                    E-mail: jdfuller@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

 

EDUCATION:             Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2003

                                    M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1995 (Religious Studies)

                                    B.S. Frostburg State University, Maryland, 1991 (History and Philosophy)

 

DOCTORAL

EXAMINATIONS:     1. History of Modern South Asia

                                    2. Religion and Colonialism

                                    3. Sociology and Anthropology of Religion

                                    4. Hinduism

 

DISSERTATION:        "Religion and Social Protest in Bengal: Colonial Adaptations and Appropriations in Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Nineteenth-Century Vaisnava Revivalist Movement"

 

DISSERTATION

COMMITTEE:            Advisor: Guy Welbon (University of Pennsylvania); Readers: Tony K. Stewart (North Carolina State University), Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania)

 

HONORS:                   Dean of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant for Research in India, University of Pennsylvania (2002); Briton Martin Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (2001-02); School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (2000-01); American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship, Calcutta (1999-2000); University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1998); American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship for Bengali, Calcutta (1996-97); F.L.A.S. Title VI for Bengali Language, University of Pennsylvania (1995-96); F.L.A.S. Title VI for Bengali language, University of Washington (Summer 1995); Book Center Award, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 1995); Dean's Tuition Remission Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1994-95); Departmental Honors in Philosophy, Frostburg State University (1991); Hypatia Award for Excellence in Philosophy, Frostburg State University (1991); Phi Alpha Theta - National History Honors Society (1989-present)

 

UNIVERSITY

TEACHING

EXPERIENCE:            Lecturer - Department of History, University of Pennsylvania (2002-03): Religion and Colonialism; Gandhi's India: A History of Modern South Asia. Instructor - Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania (1998, 2003): Religion and Film; Religions of Asia; Introduction to Hinduism; Introduction to Buddhism.

 

PUBLICATIONS:       "Re-membering the Tradition: Bhaktivinoda Thakura's 'Sajjantosani' and the Creation of a Middle-Class Sampradaya in Ninteenth-Century Bengal," in Antony Copley, ed. Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender, Sampradaya (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003); Reviews: Cults, Religion and Violence, by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton, eds. in Utopian Studies (forthcoming); Ganesha: Unravelling an Enigma, by Yuvraj Krishan in the International Journal of Hindu Studies (forthcoming); Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children, by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. in the International Journal of Hindu Studies, 3:1, pp. 92-93.

 

PRESENTATIONS:    "Were All 19th Century Hindu Revivalist Movements Nationalist? Historical and Theoretical Reflections on the Cultural Location of Neo-Vaisnavism," American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, March 2003; "Texts and Power: The Case of the Gaudiya Vaisnavas," Association for Asian Studies, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, October 2001; "The Power o Place: Rethinking and Relocating Vaisnava Holy Sites in Colonial Bengal," 30th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2001; "The Textualization of Hinduism," East-West Points of Contact Conference, Lycoming College, March 2001; "Reading, Writing, and Reclaiming: Bhaktivinoda Thakura and the Modernization of Gaudiya Vaisnavism," American Academy of Religion Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, March 2001.

 

LANGUAGES:            Bengali, Sanskrit, French, German, Spanish

 

TEACHING

COMPETENCE:         South Asian Religions, Modern South Asian History, Hinduism, Islam in South and Southeast Asia, Buddhism, World Religions, Asian Religions, Theories of Religion, Sociology/Anthropology of Religion, Religion and Social Identity, Contemporary Indian Culture and Religion, Comparative Colonial Histories and Globalization Theory, Cross-Cultural Dialogue.

 

REFERENCES:           Guy Welbon (University of Pennsylvania), Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania), Tony Stewart (North Carolina State University), Fred Clothey (University of Pittsburgh)  

 

 

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