Adeana McNicholl
@adeanamcn.bsky.social
She/her. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Historian of Buddhism in South Asia and the United States
Author, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
Author, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
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A new article from Vanderbilt assistant professor Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social on Buddhist preta or "hungry ghost" stories. I love this topic and her book!
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
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"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
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Who Were the Hungry Ghosts, Really?
The evolving stories of pretas reveal much about Buddhist views of karma, cosmology, and grief.
tricycle.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A new article from Vanderbilt assistant professor Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social on Buddhist preta or "hungry ghost" stories. I love this topic and her book!
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
Reposted by Adeana McNicholl
Pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture:
“We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
April 18, 2025
10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
“We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
April 18, 2025
10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Pls join @adeanamcn.bsky.social & myself as we host Lucinda Ramberg's (Cornell University) lecture:
“We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
April 18, 2025
10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
“We Were Always #Buddhist”: #Dalit Historiography and the Temporality of #Caste (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
April 18, 2025
10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/2y62cswx
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Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Harsha Gautam (@utaustin.bsky.social) for the 2nd lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
March 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Harsha Gautam (@utaustin.bsky.social) for the 2nd lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
March 21, 2025
10:30am EDT / 20:00 IST (on MSTeams)
Please register here: tinyurl.com/mrdr8e4p
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Friends: I'm filing for tenure this semester and I'm collecting proof of impact for my research. If you have taught any of my work, I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy of the syllabus to include in the file!
January 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Friends: I'm filing for tenure this semester and I'm collecting proof of impact for my research. If you have taught any of my work, I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy of the syllabus to include in the file!
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NEW QR CODE!
Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
NEW QR CODE!
Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
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JOB: Tenure-track position at Spelman College in African American Religions with subfields including (but not limited to) womanist theology/ethics, African religious traditions in the diaspora, queer studies in religion, decolonial studies in religion, and/or science and religion. Deadline: 3/10
Assistant Professor
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek an outstanding teacher/scholar whose ...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
JOB: Tenure-track position at Spelman College in African American Religions with subfields including (but not limited to) womanist theology/ethics, African religious traditions in the diaspora, queer studies in religion, decolonial studies in religion, and/or science and religion. Deadline: 3/10
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Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
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Spring talks as part of @adeanamcn.bsky.social and my new Buddhism and Caste Initiative! (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste
If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste
February 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Spring talks as part of @adeanamcn.bsky.social and my new Buddhism and Caste Initiative! (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste
If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste
I'm so glad to be able to share that we've created a 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion on Buddhism and Caste. Please send in proposals for individual papers as well as panels and roundtables!
CALL FOR PAPERS for NEW #AAR SEMINAR, "Buddhism and Caste" (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm so glad to be able to share that we've created a 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion on Buddhism and Caste. Please send in proposals for individual papers as well as panels and roundtables!
Friends: I'm filing for tenure this semester and I'm collecting proof of impact for my research. If you have taught any of my work, I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy of the syllabus to include in the file!
January 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Friends: I'm filing for tenure this semester and I'm collecting proof of impact for my research. If you have taught any of my work, I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy of the syllabus to include in the file!
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TODAY: Nov 25, 5PM Friends (esp. #BuddhistStudies!) who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Nov 25, 5PM, Friends who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
November 25, 2024 at 9:02 PM
TODAY: Nov 25, 5PM Friends (esp. #BuddhistStudies!) who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
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11. Author meets critics roundtable: Ralph H. Craig III: Dancing in My Dreams: A spiritual biography of Tina Turner. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm with @rhcraig.bsky.social
12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm.
12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm.
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 AM
11. Author meets critics roundtable: Ralph H. Craig III: Dancing in My Dreams: A spiritual biography of Tina Turner. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm with @rhcraig.bsky.social
12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm.
12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm.
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Looking forward to presenting this weekend at AAR this weekend alongside some brilliant scholars, such as @nwitkowski.bsky.social, @adeanamcn.bsky.social, and others!
November 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Looking forward to presenting this weekend at AAR this weekend alongside some brilliant scholars, such as @nwitkowski.bsky.social, @adeanamcn.bsky.social, and others!
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Nov 25, 5PM, Friends who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
November 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Nov 25, 5PM, Friends who will be in San Diego at #SBLAAR24, please join us for a celebration of the publication of @adeanamcn.bsky.social's _Of Ancestors and Ghosts_
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Purchase book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Location: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Obligatory cat photo for the new followers. She sat in foster care for a year and a half before I met her--people really missed out on this sweet chaos demon.
November 12, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Obligatory cat photo for the new followers. She sat in foster care for a year and a half before I met her--people really missed out on this sweet chaos demon.
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Reading with admiration @privatechand.bsky.social's new article in CSSH, "Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries" - friends in Religious Studies and Buddhist Studies - pls be sure to read!
The research for this essay means the most to me. The second part of my research traces the contemporary effects of the amnesia around slavery on the descendants of a historically enslaved community in India and is forthcoming. 🗃️ #earlymodern #skystorians
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November 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Reading with admiration @privatechand.bsky.social's new article in CSSH, "Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries" - friends in Religious Studies and Buddhist Studies - pls be sure to read!
My #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, is currently on sale for #SBLAAR24. Use promo code EXAAR24 for 40% off at Oxford University Press: oxford.ly/40uQpHm
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 PM
My #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, is currently on sale for #SBLAAR24. Use promo code EXAAR24 for 40% off at Oxford University Press: oxford.ly/40uQpHm
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I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/zUV84F
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November 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/zUV84F
go.bsky.app/zUV84F
My #Buddhism book on #hungryghosts is currently on sale on the OUP website! Use code AUFLY30 to save 30%. global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
October 30, 2024 at 3:58 PM
My #Buddhism book on #hungryghosts is currently on sale on the OUP website! Use code AUFLY30 to save 30%. global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
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Dear Friends, Prof. Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself are co-coordinating an exciting NEW project: the Buddhism and Caste Initiative.
If you support this critical work, do sign-up for our first speaker series ('24–'25) via QR code below, and share poster widely!
#BuddhismAndCaste
If you support this critical work, do sign-up for our first speaker series ('24–'25) via QR code below, and share poster widely!
#BuddhismAndCaste
October 23, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Dear Friends, Prof. Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself are co-coordinating an exciting NEW project: the Buddhism and Caste Initiative.
If you support this critical work, do sign-up for our first speaker series ('24–'25) via QR code below, and share poster widely!
#BuddhismAndCaste
If you support this critical work, do sign-up for our first speaker series ('24–'25) via QR code below, and share poster widely!
#BuddhismAndCaste
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jessica Zu for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social this week. You can find the podcast episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/adeana-mcnic...
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October 9, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jessica Zu for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social this week. You can find the podcast episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/adeana-mcnic...
It's spooky month, so OUP made the first chapter of my #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, free to read for the month of October. This chapter traces the origin of the #hungryghost and, with it, Buddhist cosmology. Link here: academic.oup.com/book/58038/chapter/477477607
October 1, 2024 at 6:24 PM
It's spooky month, so OUP made the first chapter of my #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, free to read for the month of October. This chapter traces the origin of the #hungryghost and, with it, Buddhist cosmology. Link here: academic.oup.com/book/58038/chapter/477477607
Job alert: Vanderbilt's Asian Studies department is searching for a TT Assistant Professor in Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies apply.interfolio.com/154998
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September 20, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Job alert: Vanderbilt's Asian Studies department is searching for a TT Assistant Professor in Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies apply.interfolio.com/154998
It's official, Of Ancestors and Ghosts is now released! This #Buddhism book traces the origin of the "hungry" ghost and, with it, Buddhist cosmology. It then turns to what ghosts tell us about karma, ethics, and human embodiment. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 11, 2024 at 4:23 PM
It's official, Of Ancestors and Ghosts is now released! This #Buddhism book traces the origin of the "hungry" ghost and, with it, Buddhist cosmology. It then turns to what ghosts tell us about karma, ethics, and human embodiment. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My book has arrived! And just in time for Nashville's Vietnamese celebration of the ghost festival. It's so cool and surreal to be finally holding this in my hands. (+ obligatory cat, she likes being included)
September 1, 2024 at 7:09 PM
My book has arrived! And just in time for Nashville's Vietnamese celebration of the ghost festival. It's so cool and surreal to be finally holding this in my hands. (+ obligatory cat, she likes being included)