Todd Lewis

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Todd
LastName / namelast	Lewis
MainNamePhon	Todd Lewis
SortName	Lewis, Todd
bio	Todd Lewis has taught at the College of the Holy Cross since 1990. In 1996, he was promoted to Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department and in 2003 was promoted to the rank of Professor. In 2015, Lewis was named the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities. He has also been a Research Associate in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University, and is currently involved in the Nepal Studies initiative there. Beginning with his scholarly training at Columbia University (where he earned his Ph.D. in Religion 1984), Professor Lewis' research and teaching has been interdisciplinary, linking anthropology, the history of religions, and Indology. His area of special expertise is Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and he has written extensively about Buddhist narratives, their depiction in popular art, and the role of merchants in Buddhist history. Professor Lewis is also one of the world's leading authorities on the religions of the mid-montane Himalayan region and the social history of Buddhism. Most of his research focus for over thirty years has been Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley, particularly the traditions found among the Newars, the indigenous population of Nepal 's capital. He has resided in the Asan Tol neighborhood in the city of Kathmandu for his dissertation research (1979-1982), and for three postdoctoral fellowships (1987-8, 2012), all supported by the Fulbright-Hayes program in the Department of Education. Professor Lewis has been awarded many other fellowships to support his research and writing: he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, the American Philosophical Society, the Social Science Research Council, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. In 2011, he was awarded a fellowship by the Simon Guggenheim Foundation. (Source Accessed Apr 23, 2021)
associatedwebsite	Personal Website; Faculty Page
affiliation	College of the Holy Cross
phduniversity	Columbia University
education	Ph.D. Religion, Columbia University, 1984 M.A. Religion, Columbia University, 1976 B.A. Psychology, Rutgers University, 1974
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publications	Publications
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Todd T. Lewis