Ann Gleig, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor
• Ann.Gleig@ucf.edu
• Office Hours: Via Email

Education

• Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University (2010)
• Certificate in Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality from Rice University (2010)
• M.A. in Religious Studies from Lancaster University (1997)
• B.A. in Theology and Religious Studies from Bristol University (1995)

Research Interests

Asian religions, Asian religions in America, Religion and Psychoanalysis, Religion, Gender, and Sexuality 

Recent Research Activities

My first monograph American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity was published in February 2019 by Yale University Press.  I am now working on two book projects: (1) a co-written book with Amy Langenberg on sexual violations in American Buddhism, which is under advance contract with Yale University Press and (2) a co-edited collection with Scott Mitchell on Buddhism in America, which is under advance contract with Oxford University Press.

I am also participating in two research projects. One is  called "Transforming the American Sangha: Race, Racism and Diversity in North American Insight Meditation,"which is being lead by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. Details are here: 

https://crcc.usc.edu/transforming-the-american-sangha-race-racism-and-diversity-in-north-american-in...

In addition, I am part of a five person core team of religious studies scholars working on a five year project called the Religion and Sexual Abuse Project, which has been funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. For details see: http://https//www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-researcher-to-study-sexual-misconduct-abuse-in-buddhist-communities/

I am in full support of the Anti-Racism and Indigenous Land Acknowledgement statement produced by the Philosophy department in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement https://philosophy.cah.ucf.edu/anti-racism-statement/. Some of my own research on racial justice and the impact of Black Lives Matter on American Buddhism can be found here https://news.cah.ucf.edu/news/ann-gleig-race-religion/?dept=84 

Selected Publications

Books

• Ann Gleig, American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019) http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215809/american-dharma

Edited Collections

• Ann Gleig and Lola Williamson,eds., Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism (Albany: SUNY Press, November 2013) [Link]

Articles/Essays

• Forthcoming "The #BuddhistCultureWars: BuddhaBros, Alt-Right Dharma, and Snowflake Sanghas," co-written with Brenna Artinger Journal of Global Buddhism (forthcoming) 
• Forthcoming

  "Collaboration as Care: Teaching Sexual Abuse in American Buddhism," co-written with Amy Paris Langenberg, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 37:1 (forthcoming)

  
  

  
  

• Teaching Buddhism and Hinduism in America as Critical Pedagogy, Spotlight on Teaching: American Academy of Religion May 2017 http://rsn.aarweb.org/spotlight-on/teaching/after-the-2016-election/even-trump-has-buddha-nature
• External Mindfulness, Secure (Non) Attachment and Healing Relational Trauma: Emerging Models of Wellness for Modern Buddhists and Buddhist Modernism, Journal of Global Buddhism Vol. 17 2016 http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/170/185
• Prominent Buddhist Women in the West. In Oxford Bibliographies in Buddhism. Ed. Richard Payne. New York: Oxford University Press (2015) 
• Dharma Diversity and Deep Inclusivity at the East Bay Meditation Center: From Buddhist Modernism to Buddhist Postmodernism? Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol 15: 2 (2014)
• From Buddhist Hippies to Buddhist Geeks: The Emergence of Buddhist Postmodernism? Journal of Global Buddhism Vol 15 (2014) http://www.globalbuddhism.org/15/gleig14.pdf

• From Tantra to Theravada: The Making of an American Buddhist Tantra, Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 14:2 November 2013
• Queering Buddhism or Buddhist De-Queering? Reflecting on Differences amongst Western LGBTQI Buddhists and the Limitations of Liberal Convert Buddhism, Journal of Theology and Sexuality Vol. 18:3 (2012)
• Wedding the Personal and Impersonal in West Coast Vipassana: A Dialogical Encounter between Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Journal of Global Buddhism Vol 13 (2012) http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/129/144
• Researching New Religious Movements From the Inside-Out and the Outside-In: Methodological Reflections on Collaborative and Participatory Approaches, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 16:1 (August 2012)
• The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalysis As Spirituality, Journal of Implicit Religion 15:2 (2012)
• The Culture of Narcissism Revisited: Transformations of Narcissism in Contemporary Psychospirituality, Pastoral Psychology 59: 1 (February 2010)
• The Diamond Approach: Divine Individualism or Mystical Humanism ? Fieldwork in Religion 4:1 (May 2009)

Book Sections/Chapters

• “Engaged Buddhism.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• “Enacting Social Change Through Meditation,” The Oxford Handbook of Meditation eds. Miguel Farias, David Brazier and Mansur Lalljee (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Collective, and Contextual Turns, in George Yancy and Emily McRae, ed. Buddhism and Whiteness (Philosophy of Race Series Lexington Books, 2019)
• “Embodying Nonduality: Depth Psychology in American Mysticism,” in Thomas Cattoi and David Odorisio, eds. Depth Psychology and Mysticism (Hastings: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2018) 
• Embodied Desire in Buddhism: Poison and Antidote, in Kent Brintnall Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, Religion: Embodied Religion (New York: Macmillan, 2016)
• #Hashtag Meditation, Cyborg Buddhas, and Enlightenment as an Epic Win: Buddhism, Technology, and the New Social Media, in Istvan Keul, ed. Religion, Technology, and Science in South and East Asia (Routledge, 2015)
• “Introduction: From Wave to Soil,” co-written with Lola Williamson, in Gleig and Williamson, Homegrown Gurus.  
• Remembering Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: The Forgotten Lineage of Integral Yoga with Charles Flores in Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg, eds., Gurus of Modern Yoga (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2013)
• From Being to Becoming,Transcending to Transforming: Andrew Cohen and the Evolution of Enlightenment, in Gleig and Williamson, Homegrown Gurus.
• The Enlightened Body in A.H.Almaas's Diamond Approach, in Thomas Cattoi and June McDaniel, eds. Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body:Mystical Sensuality (Hastings: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2011)
• The Contemplative Classroom,co-written with Anne Klein in Judith Simmer-Brown and Fran Redlands, eds. Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies (Albany: SUNY Press, 2011)

Creative Publications

• "Why Are White Buddhists So Angry? White Rage and Buddhist Studies Scholarship" The Shiloh Project
  https://www.shilohproject.blog/why-are-white-buddhists-so-angry-white-rage-and-buddhist-studies-scholarship/
  
• Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, "Centering Survivors? Methodological Reflections on Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha," The Shiloh Project https://www.shilohproject.blog/sexual-misconduct-and-buddhism-centering-survivors/?fbclid=IwAR2x4GhHLDc7QIafD39AK0Xh4l9RSCf5fORmD3l5A5CgJlLNhUQ5VusZ4WA
• "Waking Up to Whiteness and White Privilege," UCF Today 
   https://www.ucf.edu/news/waking-up-to-whiteness-and-white-privilege/ 
  
• "The Fifth Sight: The Suffering of Injustice," Lion's Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Times https://www.lionsroar.com/the-fifth-sight-the-suffering-of-injustice/ " 
• Hebah Farrag and Ann Gleig, "Far from being anti-religious, faith and spirituality run deep in Black Lives Matter," The Conversation https://theconversation.com/far-from-being-anti-religious-faith-and-spirituality-run-deep-in-black-lives-matter-145610?fbclid=IwAR3l_3Vbqtdi4AgmD0fd7DoDHEWbkqABguZteGztfO1rndf6zxLOBo3zVGU
• "Buddhists and Racial Justice: A History," Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 
  https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/buddhists-racial-justice/?fbclid=IwAR04jHr3ZImi9IJJV1hQLqcj6xxSo8eaOVUlYCvphAQm2CbKX07kb-mrrdk
  
• "Sexual Violations in American Buddhism: Interpretive Frameworks and Generative Responses" Ten Thousand Things http://blog.shin-ibs.edu/sexual-violations-in-american-buddhism-interpretive-frameworks-and-generative-responses/   
• "Beyond the Upper Middle Way," Lion's Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for our Time. 
• "Buddhism's Postmodern Age," Tricycle: The Buddhist Review https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/postmodern-buddhism/
• “The Shifting Landscape of Buddhism in America," Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Winter 2017 http://www.lionsroar.com/the-shifting-landscape-of-buddhism-in-america/
    
• "The Dukkha of Racism: Racial Inclusion and Justice in American Convert Buddhism," Patheos  January 3 2016http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2016/01/the-dukkha-of-racism-racial-inclusion-and-justice-in-american-convert-buddhism.html?repeat=w3tc
• "The Shadow of the Roshi: Sex, Scandal and Secrecy in American Zen Buddhism," Sweeping Zen  September 2015  http://sweepingzen.com/the-shadow-of-the-roshi-sex-scandal-and-secrecy-in-american-zen-buddhism/
• "East Bay Meditation Center," World Religions and Spirituality Project https://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/east-bay-meditation-center/ ( December 2014)

Book Reviews

• Buddhism Beyond Borders edited by Scott Mitchell and Natalie Quli Journal of Global Buddhism Vol 16 (2015) http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/164/179

Awards

UCF Mid-Career Refresh program, UCF 2020

Distinguished Alumna, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality, Rice University 2019 

UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) 2018

College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award 2017 

University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award 2017 

UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) 2017 

Activities

Editor for Journal of Global Buddhism 

Co-Chair for the Mysticism Group, American Academy of Religion 

Steering Committee Member for the Buddhism in the West Group, American Academy of Religion 

Courses

• Spring 2022
• Fall 2021
• Summer 2021
• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020