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Wesleyan University,Religion Department,860.685.2298,Religious Studies Center 207,Professor, East Asian Studies,East Asian Studies Program +
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Janice Dean Willis, or Jan Willis (born 19 … Janice Dean Willis, or Jan Willis (born 1948) is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she has taught since 1977; and the author of books on Tibetan Buddhism. She has been called influential by Time Magazine, Newsweek (cover story), and Ebony Magazine. Aetna Inc.'s 2011 African American History Calendar features professor Willis as one of thirteen distinguished leaders of faith-based health initiatives in the United States.</br></br>Willis grew up in Docena, Alabama (near Birmingham), as the daughter of a Baptist deacon and steelworker. While traveling through Asia during the early 1970s, she became the student of Tibetan lama Thubten Yeshe, who encouraged her academic pursuits. She received BA and MA degrees in philosophy from Cornell University (thesis: History, Faith, and Kerygma; A Critique of Bultmann's Existentialist Theology.), and a Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies from Columbia University (dissertation: A Study of the Chapter on Reality Based Upon the Tattvartha-patalam of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi.).</br></br>Since 2006, she has contributed to the group blog On Faith (sponsored by Newsweek and the Washington Post) alongside Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu, and Madeleine Albright, among others. In 2003, she was awarded Wesleyan University's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Willis Source Accessed May 17, 2021])/Jan_Willis Source Accessed May 17, 2021]) +
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*Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies, Col … </br>*Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies, Columbia University. Dissertation: "A Study of the Chapter on Reality based upon the ''Tattvartha-patalam'' of Asaṅga's ''Bodhisattvabhūmi''." </br>*MA in Philosophy, Cornell University. Thesis: "History, Faith, and Kerygma: A Critique of Bultmann's Existentialist Theology."</br>*BA in Philosophy, Cornell University</br>ogy."
*BA in Philosophy, Cornell University
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