Faculty
Charles Hallisey
Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Studies
- AB, Colgate University
- MDiv, Harvard Divinity School
- MA, University of Pennsylvania
- PhD, University of Chicago
- faculty assistant: Katherine Lou
- faculty assistant telephone: (617) 495-4265
- assistant’s office: Andover 302
On leave during the fall term 2007–2008
Charles Hallisey joins the Faculty of Divinity in 2007–08 after teaching at the University of Wisconsin as Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia since 2001. Since January 2005, he had also been director of Wisconsin's Religious Studies Program. Earlier he taught at Amherst College and at Harvard, where he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies from 1996 to 2001. His research centers on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali language and literature, Buddhist ethics, literature in Buddhist culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled Flowers on the Tree of Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka.