• Asia 100% • South Asia 75%-99% • Southeast Asia 10%-24%
Languages:
• Nepali (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Religion, International Development, Gender and Sexuality (including women's empowerment), Personhood and Identity; Violence and Human Rights, Transnationalism, Ethnographic Methods; Buddhism, Hinduism, Nepal, South and Southeast Asia, the Himalayas.
Relevant Experience:
• 2004-2004 Consultant for the World Bank on qualitative methods for evaluation of a rural poverty and democracy project (India) • 2003-2003 Consultant. Conflict Impact Assessment. Save the Children, US. (Nepal) • 1996-1996 Consultant and Principle Investigator for Save the Children, US. Evaluation of Women's Literacy and Empowerment Program (Nepal) • 1995-1996 Consultant for national evaluation of USAID-sponsored women's empowerment programs in Nepal (Nepal) • 1991-1991 Consultant and Principle Investigator for Save the Children, US. Evaluation of Women's Literacy and Empowerment Program (Nepal) • 1990-2014 Extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Nepal
Distinctions:
• 2004-2005 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Award • 2004-2005 Program Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University • 1996-1998 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows at Princeton University • 1994-1995 Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Grant- Nepal • 1994-1996 ACLS/SSRC Dissertation Fellowship for Area Research
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• HNRS 354 Buddhism and Culture in the Himalayas and Beyond • RELI 283 The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal and Tibet • RELI 285 The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka • RELI 381 Religions of South Asia • RELI 524 Ethnographic Approaches to Contemporary Religion • RELI 67 Nature, Culture and Self-Identity: Religion in the Construction of Daily Life
Recent Publications:
• 2016 The Buddhist Art of Living in Nepal: Ethical Practice and Religious Reform. London: Routledge and Keegan Paul. 2016.
• 2014 “Becoming a Theravada Modernist Buddhist in Contemporary Nepal.” In Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners. Todd Lewis, ed. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. 2014.
• 2014 “Secularism is a Human Right!: Double-Binds of Buddhism, Democracy and Identity in Transnational Nepal.” In The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Sally Merry and Mark Goodale, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In press, 2014.
• 2007 Leve, Lauren. “‘Failed Development’ and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women’s Empowerment.” Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 80, no.1 (Winter 2007): 127-172.
• 2007 Leve, Lauren. “Secularism is a Human Right!: Double-Binds of Buddhism, Democracy and Identity in Transnational Nepal” in The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Sally Merry and Mark Goodale, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007.
• 2002 Leve, Lauren. “Subjects, States and the Politics of Personhood in Theravada Buddhism in Nepal.” The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 61, no. 3 (August 2002): 833-860.
• 2001 Leve, Lauren. “Between Jesse Helms and Ram Bahadur: NGOs, Women, ‘Participation,’ and ‘Empowerment’ in Nepal.” PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Vol. 24, no. 1 (May 2001): 108-28.
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