Department Chair, Professor
Contact
| Office: | Hyer Hall 300B |
| Phone: | 214-768-4127 |
| Email: | johan@smu.edu |
| Professional website: | http://faculty.smu.edu/johan/Home.html |
Educational Background
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
About
Dr. Johan Elverskog is Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Professor of Religious Studies, and, by courtesy, Professor of History. He has published widely on the history of Buddhism across Asia and is the author and editor of nine books and numerous articles, which have won several awards and also been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Russian. He is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of Buddhism among the Uygurs of northwest China. The second is an edited volume Sources of Mongol Tradition, which is a comprehensive collection of Mongolian works covering the development of Mongolian civilization from the earliest beginnings until today, and is under contract with the Introduction to Asian Civilizations Series of Columbia University Press.
Courses Taught
- Buddhism
- Religions of China
- Cultural History of Tibet
- Introduction to Asian Religions
Recent Publications
The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Buddhist Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
“Preface.” In Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World, eds. Michael Jerryson and Iselin Frydenlund. New York: Palgrave, 2019.
“Maitreya, Shambhala and the End of Buddhist Empire.” In Faith and Empire: The Art of Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, ed. Karl Debreczeny, 212-227. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.
“G.J.Ramstedt’s‘A Short History of the Uyghurs.’” In Language, Society, and Religion in the World of the Turks:Festschrift for Larry Clark at Seventy-Five, ed. Zsuzsanna Gulásci, 187-204. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
“When the Monks Met the Muslims.”Tricycle Spring (2018): 58-61, 102.