ACLS Joins Buddhism Public Scholar Tierney B. Brown at the American Museum of Natural History
ACLS Buddhist Studies Program Officer Daphne Weber and Program Coordinator Morgan Day join Tierney B. Brown F’25 at the American Museum of Natural History to learn project updates, meet with Brown’s advisor, Dr. Laurel Kendall, Senior Curator in Residence in Asian Ethnology, and receive a museum tour.
Tierney B. Brown is a 2025 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholar appointed as a Public Scholar to the American Museum of Natural History. 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. Dr. Kendall and Brown are working together on Brown’s project which is set to 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.
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars Fellowships in Buddhist Studies places recent recipients of the PhD in professional positions at host institutions (museums, libraries, and publications) that present and interpret knowledge of Buddhist traditions.