Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
StephenBerkwitz@MissouriState.edu
Phone
417-836-4147
(work)
Office
Strong Hall 255
Department
Religious Studies
Postal mail
Missouri State University
Religious Studies
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield,
MO
65897
work
Department Head
Education
PhD, 1999, University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching
- Paths of World Religions
- Buddhism
- Religions of China and Japan
- Buddhism in the Modern World
- Theories of Religion
- Religion, Colonialism, Post-colonialism
- Sex, Power, and Devotion in South Asian Poetry
Research and professional interests
- Buddhist studies
- Theravada Buddhism
- Sinhala and Pali Literature
- South Asian religions
- Religion and colonialism
Awards and honors
- Visiting Research Fellowship, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2011
- Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Project Grant, 2010
- Luso-American Foundation Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2009
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Missouri State University, 2008
- Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Sri Lanka, U.S. Department of State, 2005
- University Teaching Award, Southwest Missouri State University, 2004