Program

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars, 2025

Project

Appointed as a Public Scholar to the American Museum of Natural History

PhD field of study

PhD, Cultural Anthropology, New York University

Position Description

The American Museum of Natural History holds the finest collection of Asian ethnology in the Western hemisphere, encapsulating diverse designs for living including material associated with lived religious practices. The Buddhism Public Scholar will develop a plan to best present Buddhist materials in the collection, presenting the diversity and richness of Buddhism as living social practices contextualized by time and space.