SUMMARY OF EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER JOHN S. STRONG英文.pdf

SUMMARY OF EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER JOHN S. STRONG Personal data: • born, 13 September 1948 in Tongxian, Hebei, China • married, 13 March 1971 to Sarah Mehlhop • children: Anna (b. 1979), Aaron (b. 1984) • grandchildren: Isaac (b. 2002) • address: 33 Whitman Spring Road, Auburn, Maine 04210. Tel.: (207) 784-1610 • office: Department of Religion, 207 Hedge Hall, Bates College, 9 Andrews Road, Lewiston, Maine, 04240. Tel.: (207) 786-6311; fax: (207) 786-6401; e-mail: jstrong@ Educati on: • secondary schools: Collège de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland; and Leonia High School, Leonia, NJ. • B.A., 1969. Oberlin College (Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). • M.A., 1972. Hartford Seminary Foundation (Thesis: Tibetan Buddhists in Switzerland: A Study of Religion in Exile). • Ph.D., 1977. University of Chicago (Dissertation: Making Merit in the Aßokåvadåna: A Study of Buddhist Acts of Offering in the Post-Parinirvåˆa Age). Professional Employment: • Lecturer in History of Religions, The Divinity School, The University of Chicago, 1977-78. • Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Bates College, 1978-85. • Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Bates College, 1986-92. • Professor, Department of Religion, Bates College, 1992-2004. • Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Bates College, 1999-2008. • Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion, Bates College, 2004-present. Visiting Appointments: • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, The University of Notre Dame, Summer, 1978. • Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1986-87. • Visiting Professor of Religion, Associated Kyoto Program, Kyoto, Japan, 1992-93. • Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1993-94. • Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago, Spring Quarter, 1995. • Visiting Stewart Profes