Posman, E.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Editors Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Ellen
LastName / namelast	Posman
MainNamePhon	Ellen Posman
SortName	Posman, Ellen
bio	Dr. Ellen Posman holds degrees in comparative religion from Stanford University, Harvard University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She teaches a variety of classes on themes in comparative religion such as religion and violence, religion and the environment, religion and women, religion in America and religion and the afterlife, in addition to specialized classes in her specific areas of expertise, Asian religions and Judaism. Posman also led a study-abroad trip to India during winter break 2007-2008 in which BW students investigated the ways religion intersects with poverty, globalization and development in India. She has received multiple grants to fund travel-oriented research. She lived in Tibetan Buddhist refugee communities in India and Nepal from 1999 to 2001, participated in a faculty peace delegation to Israel and Palestine in 2006, visited Turkey as part of an interfaith dialogue group in 2008, and spent time researching Buddhism and culture in Taiwan in 2004, Thailand in 2011 and Sri Lanka in 2015. She is featured as a scholarly expert on the issue of Theravada Buddhist nuns seeking full ordination in the documentary film Bhikkhuni: Buddhism, Sri Lanka, Revolution. In addition to sociological research, her interests include textual research; she received a grant to participate in a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer seminar on classical Buddhist texts. Posman has published on religion and violence, religion and vegetarianism, religious exile and diaspora and religion in film. She has a passion for teaching and engages in the scholarship of teaching, including contributions to an anthology on pedagogies for civic engagement in religious studies. She also served as coeditor of the “Spotlight on Teaching” section of Religious Studies News, a publication of the American Academy of Religion. (Source Accessed Jan 14, 2026)
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Ellen Posman