Willock, N.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Nicole
LastName / namelast	Willock
MainNamePhon	Nicole Willock
SortName	Willock, Nicole
bio	Nicole Willock is an assistant professor of Asian religions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is currently a 2017 Research Fellow through the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist studies for her book project, Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Scholars Making Modern China. This project analyzes the writings of three Tibetan Buddhist intellectuals (Tseten Zhabdrung, Dungkar Rinpoche, and Muge Samten) through the lens of postcolonial and poststructuralist theories to challenge normative assumptions on religious subjects, state-driven secularization, and moral agency in China. Her publications include "The Revival of the Tulku Institution in Modern China: Narratives and Practices" (Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines, 2017) and "Dorje Tarchin, the Melong, and the Tibet Mirror Press: Negotiating Discourse on the Religious and the Secular in Tibet" (Himalaya Journal, 2016). Since 2011, she has served as a Tibet and Himalaya Panel Steering Committee member for the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and as an Academic Advisory Board member for the Treasury of Lives: Biographical Encyclopedia digital project. (Source: A Gathering of Brilliant Moons, 331)
associatedwebsite	Faculty Page
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Old Dominion University
affiliationsecondary	University of Denver;Indiana University;American Academy of Religion;Tibetan & Himalayan Religions Group;AAS Tibet Society; Treasury of Lives Advisory Committee
StudentOf	Elliot Sperling
phduniversity	Indiana University, Bloomington
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Full Name

Nicole Willock

Affiliation

DU - University of Denver, Colorado Post-Doctoral Lecturer

Sturm Hall 382

303-871-2050

nwillock@gmail.com

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington

PhD Student of Elliot Sperling

Other Information

Background:

Nicole Willock has two Ph.Ds. from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. One doctorate is in Religious Studies; the other is in Tibetan Studies within the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Dr. Willock is a three-year postdoctoral fellow at the University of Denver.

Professor Willock currently teaches the following courses: Religions of Tibet; Buddhism in the USA: Local and Global Perspectives; and Politics and Religion in Modern China.

Her research explores the complex relationships between state-driven secularization, religious practice and ethnic identity in 20th century China, especially focusing on the lives and works of Tibetan monastic scholars in China. Her most recent publication is a book review of “Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958 by Paul Nietupski,” in the Journal of Asian Studies. She is currently working on revising the manuscript, “A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China,” for publication. Her dissertation has been reviewed by Dr. Nancy Lin (Dartmouth College) on the Dissertation Reviews website.

Dr. Willock is a select participant in the five-year “Tibet and Literary Seminar” in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual meetings and serves on the AAR steering committee for the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group. She also serves as chair of the AAS Tibet Society and a consultant for Treasury of Lives Advisory Committee. Source (Accessed June 13, 2012)

Honors and Awards

• Fall 2006 through Fall 2007. Assistant Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies.
• Spring 2007. Teaching Opportunity Grant funded by the Inner Asian Uralic National Resource Center and the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Taught “Constructing Culture: Imagining Tibet”--a course on the globalization of Tibetan Culture to undergraduate and graduate students.
• 2005-2006. Recipient of the Fellowship for Language Area Studies (FLAS) for study of Tibetan during the academic year
• Summer 2005. Recipient of Indiana University’s Pre-dissertation Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs and the Office of Research and University Graduate school.
• Summer 2005. Awarded grant from the University of Minnesota for an on-line learning module called “A Week in Rebkong”. Teaches Amdo dialect to students familiar with Lhasa dialect.
• 2004-2005. Recipient of the FLAS for study of Tibetan during the academic year.
• Summer 2004. Recipient of the FLAS for two month Tibetan language program at Tibet University, Lhasa. Recipient of Indiana University’s International Summer Enhancement Grant.
• 2003-2004. Recipient of the FLAS for study of Tibetan during the academic year.
• Summer 2003. Recipient of the FLAS for a two month Tibetan language program in Boudha, Nepal. Recipient of Indiana University’s International Summer Enhancement Grant.
• 2002-2003: Received Indiana University’s Recruitment Fellowship.