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Wakoh Shannon Hickey, PhD Alfred University Division of Human Studies, 1 Saxon Drive, Alfred, NY 14802 (607) 871-2704 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Online portfolio: http://people.alfred.edu/~hickey/

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in and Modernity, Graduate Program in Religion, Duke University, 2008. Dissertation: “Mind Cure, , and Medicine: Hidden Histories of Mental Healing in the United States.” Advisor: Richard Jaffe, Ph.D.

Dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of two American movements promoting meditation for therapeutic purposes: nineteenth-century Mind Cure, and twentieth-century -Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). It highlights several hidden histories: the role of New Thought in popularizing therapeutic meditation and yoga long before the 1970s; the roles of particular Asian missionaries in shaping American assumptions about , meditation, and yoga; and the dynamics of race and gender in both movements.

• Master of Divinity, Pacific School of Religion, May 2003. Cumulative GPA: 3.94.

• Master of Arts, Pacific School of Religion, May 2001. Buddhist and Christian studies. Thesis: “Religious Leadership in American : A Comparative Study of Priesthood in Three Communities of American Converts to Japanese Soto Zen.”

• Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction, University of at Berkeley, Political , 1986. U.C. Regents Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa.

Fellowships, Grants, Honors, Awards

Fellowships

• A.W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Human Being, Human Diversity, and Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Science, and Medicine, Graduate Fellow, Duke University, 2006-2007. • Preparing Future Faculty, Duke University, 2006-2007. • Graduate Program in Religion, Duke University, 2003-2008. • U.S. Department of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship for intensive Japanese-language study, University of California at Berkeley, Summer 2003.

Grants

• Faculty Development Grant, Alfred University, for archival research related to revising dissertation for publication. Fall, 2010. • Faculty Development Grant, Alfred University, to cover travel costs exceeding the honorarium for invited presentation at the conference Buddhism without Borders in Berkeley, CA, January 2010. • Faculty Development Grant, Alfred University National Endowment for the Humanities fund, to attend Wabash Center workshop on Teaching College Introductory Religion Courses, October 2008. • Summer Research Grant, Duke University Graduate School, 2007. • Travel Grants, Pacific School of Religion Harland Hogue Fund and Duke University Graduate School, for invited presentation at Earl Lectures, Spring 2007. • Writing Grant, Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, to support revision of Religious Leadership in American Zen for conference presentations and publication, 2005. • Curriculum Development Grant, Global K-12 Outreach Program, Duke University, Summer 2004, to develop teacher-training guides and curricula to help North Carolina public school teachers teach basic Buddhist history and doctrine.

Honors and Awards

• William J. Griffith University Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Durham and Local Community, Duke University, 2009. • Phi Beta Kappa, elected to Alpha of Northern California, 1986. • UC Regents Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, 1981-1984. • Mortar Board National Honor Society, UC Berkeley, 1982-1984. • Irving Memorial Prize for American Wit and Humor, UC Berkeley, 1986. • of American Poets Prize, UC Berkeley, 1985.

Research Interests

• American religious history, particularly minority traditions and women leaders • Modern Buddhism, particularly in North America • Religion and medicine • Contemplative pedagogies • Comparative clergy formation and pastoral ethics • Religious approaches to death and dying • Theories of religion and ritual

Teaching Interests

• American religious history • Buddhism in Asia and the modern West • Buddhist and Christian contemplative practices • : surveys of the Bible, church history (particularly diversity in the early Church), Jesus in popular culture and from various religious perspectives • Religion and science • Death and dying • Religion and medicine • Women and religion • African American • Mormonism and metaphysical traditions • Comparative ethics • Theories of religion • World religions

Teaching Experience

Alfred University Division of Human Studies

• World Religions, each semester, Fall 2008 to present. • Buddhism, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, 2012. • Religion in America, Spring 2009, 2010, 2012. • Birth of the Christian Tradition, Fall 2011. • Who Wrote the Bible? Fall 2012. • Jesus: Sage, Savior, Superstar, Spring 2009, Fall 2009. • Asian Religions, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2011 as a First-Year Experience seminar. • Religion and Science, Fall 2010, 2012. • Women and Religion, Spring 2011.

Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

Deepening the Heart of Wisdom: Buddhist and Christian Contemplative Practice and Dialogue, January 2012 (2 weeks, 35 hours).

Pacific School of Religion / Graduate Theological Union

• American Buddhisms, Summer Sessions 2007 - 2010(2 weeks, 40 hours). • Basic Buddhisms, Summer Session 2006 (1 week, 20 hours). • Buddhism in the United States, Summer Session 2006 (1 week, 20 hours).

Duke University Department of Religion

• Buddhism in the United States, Summer Term 1, 2006. Teaching Assistant for • Lived Religion in America, Spring 2006 (for Dr. Julie Byrne). • Introduction to Buddhist Thought and Practice, Fall 2005 (for Dr. Richard Jaffe).

Duke Asian-Pacific Studies Institute & Global K-12 Outreach Program

Curriculum Design Consultant, Summer 2004.Developed Teaching about Buddhism guide for North Carolina public school teachers: lesson plans, background materials, and learning activities for middle- and high-school students. Bay Area Computer Vendors

Trainer, voice-activated computer systems, 1995-1998.Designed and delivered individual and group training of eight to sixteen hours per student. Developed job-aids, manuals, and other reference materials for trainees.

Wells Fargo Bank

Trainer, Writing for Success, 1991 to 1993.Worked with a team of trainers to design and deliver a four-week, sixteen-hour, writing-skills course for managers and supervisors. Developed learning objectives and skill-building exercises, reference materials, visual aids, trainer guidelines, and evaluation tools. Assessed student writing samples and tailored courses to each group’s needs.

Teacher Training, Faculty Development

• Teaching and Learning Collaborative, Alfred University. Small-group discussions, peer observations, and reflections on teaching, 2011-2012. • First-Year Experience Faculty Development Workshops, Alfred University, Summer and Fall, 2011. • Pacific Crest Teaching Institute Two-day workshop on creating student-centered classrooms and promoting process education, SUNY Cortland, January 14-15, 2010. • Curriculum Transformation Week-long summer course on addressing issues of privilege in the classroom (race, gender, socio- economic class, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability), St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 15-19, 2009. • Bard University Writing Workshop on Teaching the Academic Paper Alfred University, May 13, 2009, sponsored by the AU Writing Center. • Teaching Millennial Students Webinar Society for the Teaching of , Ball State University, January 23, 2009. • Teaching College Introductory Religion Courses workshop, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, , October 31, 2008. • Preparing Future Faculty Program, Duke University, 2006-2007. • Instructional Uses of Technology (GS 301), Duke University, Spring 2007. • Certificate in Teaching Religion (REL 396), Duke University, Spring 2007. • Introduction to College Teaching (formerly Pathways to the Professoriate, GS 302), Duke University, Fall 2003. • Training Design (BusAd X490.7), UC Berkeley Extension, Summer 1995. • Developing Training Materials (BusAd X465.6), UCB Extension, Fall 1995. • Presentation & Facilitation Skills (BusAd X491.5), UCB Extension, Fall 1995.

Publications, Editing and Peer Review

Publications

• “Religious Prejudice: What Makes it Worse and What Helps,” World, Tokyo, Fall 2012. • “Meditation is Not Enough: Chaplaincy Training for Buddhists,” in Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work, eds. L. Willa Miller and Cheryl Giles (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2012). • “Ground, Connect, Stretch, Serve: Multi-faith Ministry on College and University Campuses,” booklet co-published by the Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South and the Women’s Interfaith Institute of the Finger Lakes, 2012. • “Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism,” chapter in proposed conference volume based on the 2010 conference Buddhism Without Borders (see below). Accepted, in editing. • “Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism,” Journal of Global Buddhism 11 (2010) 1-25. • “Meditation as Medicine: A Critique,” Crosscurrents 60:2 (Summer 2010) 168-184. • “Swedenborg: A Modern Buddha?” Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of 10 (Summer 2008, published Summer 2010) 101-129. • Book review: Healthy Disclosure: Solving Communication Quandaries in Congregations, by Kibbie Simmons Ruth and Karen A. McClintock (The Alban Institute, 2007), Anglican Theological Review, 90:4 (Fall 2008), 834-835. • Forum: “Diversity and Divisions in American Buddhism,” Buddhadharma, Fall 2006, 48-57. • “Teaching about Buddhism: Lesson Plans, Suggested Readings, Background Materials, and Activities for Learning about Asian Buddhism,” a teacher-training guide and curriculum to help North Carolina public school teachers teach basic Buddhist history and doctrine. Part of Duke University's 2004 annual summer program What Do You Know About Asia? co-sponsored by the Asian-Pacific Studies Institute and Fuqua School of Business. Supervised by Dr. Richard Jaffe.

Editing and Peer Review

• Editor, Buddhist-Christian Studies, an internationally circulated, peer-reviewed academic journal. • Peer reviewer of manuscripts for Oxford University Press in January 2011 and for the Journal of Global Buddhism in Spring 2012. • Textbook reviewer, Living Religions, 8th ed., by Mary Pat Fisher, and MyReligionLab online course tools (Pearson Prentice Hall), Fall 2010. • Editing assistance on scholarly papers: “Seeking Śakyamuni: Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism,” Richard Jaffe, Ph.D., Journal of Japanese Buddhist Studies 30:1 (Winter 2004), 65-96; ”A New Horizon in Reconstructing : Exchanges between and Nanjio Bunjiu in the Late 19th Century,” Jidong Chen (Musashino Women’s University), presented at Global Flows and the Restructuring of Asian Buddhism in an Age of Empires, an international conference at Duke University, February 20-21, 2004; and”Anti-Japan War and ,” Fumihiko Sueki (University of Tokyo), presented at Global Flows and the Restructuring of Asian Buddhism in an Age of Empires, ibid. • Book Review Editor, Turning Wheel, the Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship 1999-2001. Assigned, reviewed, and edited articles. Also assisted with page layout and production on various occasions throughout the 1990s. • Copyediting and proofreading, John P. Keenan, trans., The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning, Berkeley, CA: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000; and Murano Senchu, trans., , Kaimokusho or Liberation from Blindness, Berkeley, CA: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000. • Editor and Project Manager, People Behind the News, a comprehensive guide to print and broadcast media in the San Francisco Bay Area: more than 300 organizations and 1,000 individual writers, editors, and broadcasters. Hired and supervised researchers and production staff. Designed print and electronic editions, 1996. • Staff and freelance journalism and editing, 1982-1996. Staff reporter for The Recorder, East/West News, and The Daily Californian. Covered state and local politics, Asian American affairs, law, business, and technology. Wrote freelance news and feature articles for California Lawyer Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Focus Magazine, Diablo Magazine, and other publications. Edited, produced, and/or managed a wide variety of non-fiction editorial projects in various non-profit and corporate settings, including Wells Fargo Bank, Cushman & Wakefield (real estate) and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (law). Managed copy flow, supervised photographers and graphic designers, edited text, laid out pages, sized photographs, proofed galleys, coordinated printing and distribution.

Conference Presentations

• Genealogy.com, Google Earth, and Grandma: New and Old Resources for Teaching American Religious History, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Teaching Religion Section, San Francisco, CA, November 21, 2011. • Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism, Buddhism without Borders Conference, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, CA, March 20, 2010. Featured speaker. • Meditation as Medicine: A Critique, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group, Montreal, Quebec, November 9, 2009. • Meditation is Not Enough: Chaplaincy Training for Buddhists, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group, Montreal, Quebec, November 8, 2009. • The Parliament Prolonged: Buddhism, , and Greenacre’s Forgotten Legacy, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, North American Religions Section, Chicago, IL, November 2, 2008. • Swedenborg: A Modern Buddha? American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Buddhism in the West Consultation, , CA, November 17, 2007. • Safe and Responsible Leadership: A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, at Pacific School of Religion Earl Lectures, Berkeley, CA, January 24, 2007. • Clergy Training in American Zen, on panel Educating Buddhists, at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Japanese Religions Section, Philadelphia, PA, November 20, 2005. • Religion, Ritual, and the Women’s Movement at the symposium Sisterhood, Riot Grrrl, and the Next Wave: Feminist Generations/Generating Feminisms, hosted by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University, October 27, 2005. • Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism, at the Buddhist Studies Graduate Students conference April 22-24, 2005, Princeton University. • Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism, at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Asian North American Religions Section, San Antonio, TX, November 2004. • Religious Leadership in American Zen, at American Academy of Religion Buddhism section, at the Western Commission on the Study of Religion (WECSOR) conference, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, March 24, 2002.

Presiding at Conferences

• Contemplative Pedagogies, sponsored by the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 16, 2012. • Buddhism in the West: Past and Present, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Buddhism in the West, San Francisco, CA, November 19, 2011. • Buddhist Women Migrants, Migrating Women’s Buddhism: The Complexities and Challenges for Buddhist Women in Oceania, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, co-sponsored by Religion and Migration Consultation and Buddhism in the West Consultation, Atlanta, GA, October 31, 2010.

Invited Lectures and Workshops

• On the Power of a Vow, Hornell Area Unitarian-Universalist Society, May 27, 2012. • What Buddhists and Christians Have in Common, Mt. Equity Zendo, Pennsdale, PA, March 4, 2012. Buddhist and Christian contemplative practices. • Forgiveness and Grace, Napa Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, July 31, 2011. • Now I Become Myself: a Zen Reading, Mt. Equity Zendo, Pennsdale, PA, Dec. 20, 2010. • Meditation, Alfred University Women’s Conference, October 23, 2010. • Meditation as Medicine: A Critique, Bergren Forum: Alfred University, April 8, 2010. • On the Power of a Vow, Napa Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, July 19, 2009; and Hornell-Alfred Association of Unitarian Universalists, May 27, 2012. • Generosity, a Jewish-Buddhist Dialogue, Congregation Beth Sholom, Napa, CA, January 11 and 14, 2009. • Forgiveness and Healing across Religious Traditions, a Jewish-Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. Congregation Beth Sholom, Napa, CA, August 20, 2008. • Meditation as Medicine, at Mellon-Sawyer Seminar: Human Being, Human Diversity, and Human Welfare: a Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Society, and Medicine, at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, Durham, NC, April 9, 2007. • Theories of Religion, for Religion 101, Religions in the United States, Margarita Suarez, Ph.D., Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, January 16 and 17, 2007. • Birth and Death, New Hope , Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Durham, NC, January 16, 2007. • Zen and Meditation, North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation, Tahoe Vista, CA, January 25, 2007. • Seeking a Broader and Deeper : A Commentary on Dogen’s Genjo , New Spirit Community Church, Berkeley, CA, August 10, 2006. • What Do We Believe, How Are We Different, Are We Connected? An Interfaith Dialogue (Jewish, Buddhist, Christian), North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation, Tahoe Vista, CA, August 3, 2006. • The Heart and Emptiness in Mahāyāna Thought, New Hope Sangha, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Durham, NC, January 2, 2006. • History of the Sōtō Zen Precepts, Chapel Hill , NC, August 7, 2005. • Introduction to Buddhism, Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement, Durham, NC, March 29, 2005. • Buddhist Attitudes toward Death and Dying, for Sociology 164, Death and Dying, Deborah Gold, Ph.D., Duke University, October 21, 2004. • Introduction to Buddhist History and the , for History 143A, Ancient and Early Modern Japan, Simon Partner, Ph.D., Duke University, September 16, 2004. • Buddhist and Christian Understandings of Suffering, and Buddhist Loving-kindness Practices, Adult Religious Education, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Raleigh, NC, September 19 and October 3, 2004. • The Four Noble Truths, Buddhist Community at Duke, September 1, 2004. • Introduction to Buddhism, Asbury UMC, Livermore, CA, January 19, 2003. • Spirituality and Bereavement, for therapists of Pediatri-Care, an agency providing bereavement care to Alameda County children and families: Oakland, CA, March 11, 2002. • A History of the Sōtō Zen Precepts, Mendocino Area Sangha, Caspar, CA, April 15, 2002. • Love Your Enemies: A Buddhist Perspective, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, May 8, 2001. • Oryoki: Zen Meal Practices, for Holy Eating, a Pacific School of Religion course on the theology of the Eucharist and other eating rituals, taught by Profs. Andrea Bieler and Luise Schottroff, March, 2001.

Academic Administration and Student Advising

Alfred University, New York

Faculty Advisor, 2009-present. Advise undergraduate students about registering for courses, declaring majors and minors, study skills, and other academic and personal issues. Collaborate with the Counseling Center, Student Affairs, the Higher Education Opportunity Program, athletic programs, and college deans.

University of California, Berkeley

Student Affairs Officer, 1999-2001. Managed the Berkeley campus office of a program that sent 25 undergraduates per semester to Washington, D.C., to undertake academic research projects and professional internships. Publicized the program, recruited and screened applicants, oriented and advised them through the process of applying to the program and finding internships. Involved alumni in recruiting and coordinated with a dozen campus departments. Hired, trained, and supervised assistants. Developed database and internet systems to streamline office procedures. Produced a comprehensive program manual.

Professional Service and Memberships Professional Service

• Promotion & Tenure Task Force, Alfred University, 2012-2013. • Faculty Council, Alfred University College of Liberal Arts and , 2011-present. • Board of Directors, Women’s Interfaith Institute of the Finger Lakes, 2012-present. • Board of Directors, Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2011-present. • Editorial Board, Journal of Global Buddhism, 2009-present. • Steering Committee, American Academy of Religion Consultation on Buddhism in the West, 2008 to present. • Organizer, The Clarity in the Anger, a public lecture and class visits by Buddhist feminist scholar Rita M. Gross, at Alfred University, March 2012. • BFA Honors Thesis Committee, Alfred University, Spring 2011. • External Review, University Master of Divinity Program, Fall 2010. • Search Committees, Alfred University Division of Human Studies, Fall 2008, 2010. • Faculty Planning Committee, Alfred University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Spring 2010. • Advisory Committee on Technology, Alfred University, 2009-2010 • Organizer, Art of Birth, Death, and , an exhibit of student artworks depicting modern interpretations of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming, at Herrick Library, Alfred University, April- May 2009. • Phi Beta Kappa Committee on Members-in-Course, Alfred University, 2009-2010. • Duke President’s Council on Women, 2006-2007. • Graduate and Professional Students Council, Religion Department Representative, Duke University, 2006-2007. • Graduate Student Association in Religion Executive Committee, Duke University, Fall 2004 to Spring 2006. • Buddhist Chaplain, Duke University Religious Life Staff, 2004-2007. • Adjunct Chaplain, Duke University Medical Center, 2003-2007. • Advisory Committee on Religious Ministry in Prisons, North Carolina State Department of Corrections, 2004-2007.

Memberships

• American Academy of Religion • Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies • Phi Beta Kappa • Women’s Interfaith Institute of the Finger Lakes Board of Directors

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