Assistant Professor
219D Milbank Hall
T: 212.854.4483
E: wadamek@barnard.edu
Office Hours

Wendi Adamek joined the Barnard Religion Department as Assistant Professor of Chinese Religions in the fall of 2001. She completed her doctorate at Stanford University in 1998, and was an assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 1996-2000. She has traveled extensively in Asia, including three years spent in Japan with the support of a Fulbright research fellowship and a grant from the Society for the Preservation of Buddhism. She also spent 2000-2001 and 2004-2005 in China on NEH and Fulbright fellowships. Professor Adamek specializes in medieval Chinese Buddhism, and her current research interests include Buddhist nuns of the Tang dynasty, Buddhist donor practices, and the religious art of 5th-6th century China. She is the author of The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan Text and its Contexts (Columbia, 2007), as well as several articles on medieval Chinese Buddhism. Her courses include Introduction to Asian Religions, Spiritual Journeys in Fiction, Ecology, Culture and Religion, Chan/Zen Buddhism, Daoism (Taoism), Chinese Religious Traditions, The Gift and Religion, Readings in Chinese Buddhism, and graduate courses on topics in theory and Asian religions. She is originally from Hawai'i and is also involved with projects in ecology and the arts on Maui.

Complete CV (PDF, 80 KB)

Courses

• Self and Society in Asian Religions
• Chan/Zen Buddhism, Daoism (Taoism)
• Chinese Religious Traditions
• The Gift and Religion
• Readings in Chinese Buddhism

Office Hours (Fall 2008)

Wednesdays 4-6 PM and by appointment.