| Christian K. Wedemeyer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 42–43) Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | History of Religions, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Studies |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of Copenhagen Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Wesleyan University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert A. F. Thurman |
| Influences | Hayden White Roland Barthes J.H. Stone II Jonathan Z. Smith Matthew Kapstein Janet Gyatso David Seyfort Ruegg Louis de la Vallée Poussin |
| Notable awards | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow |
| Spouse | Gitanjali Kapila (1996-present) |
Christian Konrad Wedemeyer, FRAS (born 1969) is an American scholar and political and social activist. He is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago,[1] and an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. In February 2008, he was elected to a four-year term as Committeeman for the 5th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois (Green Party).[2] He is currently Co-chair of the Hyde Park Green Party, a local chapter of the Illinois Green Party, Green Party of the United States.[3]
His work within the field of the history of religions has largely been concerned with the history, literature, and ritual of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to historical and philological studies of Sanskrit and Tibetan religious literature, he has written on the historiography of Esoteric Buddhism and its antinomianism currents, textual criticism and strategies of legitimating authority in classical Tibetan scholasticism, and the semiology of esoteric Buddhist ritual.
He is an editor of the journal History of Religions, Buddhism editor for Religious Studies Review (Blackwell), serves on the editorial boards of, and acts in a consulting capacity for a number of academic journals and presses.[4]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He is member (and former officer) of the American Oriental Society; and a member of the American Academy of Religion, the International Association for Tibetan Studies, the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and the North American Association for the Study of Religion. In 2010, he was elected to a three-year term as Co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion. [5]
In 2010-11 he was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.[6]
He has consulted for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CNN, and the United States Department of Justice. He is listed in several Marquis' Who's Who editions, including Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders.
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