Graduate Student Bios

Jennifer Baumgartner is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Wright State University, working under the supervision of Dr. Tamera Schneider. Jennifer’s research interests include examining moderators and … Read More

Utkarsh Chawla is a final year master’s student in Nalanda University (Bihar, India). He is doing his post-graduation in Buddhist Studies, specifically focusing on Tibetan Buddhism. … Read More

Chelsea E. Hall is currently working on her PhD in Religion, Gender, and Culture focusing on Tibetan Buddhism at Harvard University under the direction of Janet … Read More

I am Eunyoung Hwang, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, focusing on intentionality, habituation, and moral agency in the context of comparative … Read More

Raised on a farm in rural Massachusetts, Justin Kelley studied Environmental Economics as an undergraduate at Tufts University. He subsequently spent ten years living in and … Read More

As an advanced graduate student at the University of California, Davis, I research the immediate and long-term consequences of intensive meditation training on emotional responses to … Read More

Vincent Laliberté, MD, MA, FRCPC is a psychiatrist trained at McGill University. He completed his medical training and a Master’s degree in sociology at Université Laval. … Read More

My name is Katie Lenger and I am a clinical psychology graduate student at the University of Tennessee. I completed my undergraduate degree in psychology at … Read More

Michael is interested in the plasticity of human perception. He is currently wrapping up his PhD in neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, and will soon … Read More

First schooled in art at Chicago’s Art Institute and after a long stretch as a lapsed Catholic, I returned through Buddhism to my root faith and … Read More

I am a Danish PhD-student in Anthropology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Since 2011, I have collectively spent more than two years in Tibetan monastic … Read More

Roxanne is a Ph.D. Candidate in Education at the University of California, Davis and is interested in cognition, the body, and movement-based contemplative practices. Her dissertation … Read More

I am currently finishing my PhD at Northwestern University, where I have pursued three main lines of interest: 1) Exploring biological bases of desire and motivation, … Read More

I am currently working on my PhD in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. I completed a Master’s in Tibetan Buddhism … Read More

I am a post-doctoral researcher with J. Kevin O’Regan at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception at the Université Paris Descartes in Paris. My research interest … Read More

Sean is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on the nature of phenomenal consciousness and embodied … Read More

Zack Walsh is a PhD candidate in the Process Studies graduate program at Claremont School of Theology. His research is transdisciplinary, exploring process-relational, contemplative, and engaged … Read More