Anne M. Blackburn is a historian of South and

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. She is

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Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. Blackburn received her B.A. in Asian History and Religion in 1988 from

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, her M.A. in Religious Studies in 1990 from University of Chicago Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in History of Religions in 1996 from the same institution. Blackburn's teachers include

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, Frank E. Reynolds, and Donald Swearer.

Research

Blackburn is currently working on a new project, "Monks, Texts, and Relics: A History of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia". This study aims to examine the Buddhist monastic networks and temple formation in British colonial port cities.

Selected publications

Books * ''Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. * ''Approaching the Dhamma: Buddhist Texts and Practices in South and Southeast Asia''. ed. Anne M. Blackburn and Jeffrey Samuels. Seattle: BPS Pariyatti Editions, 2003. * ''Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Articles * "'Buddhist Revival' and the 'Work of Culture' in 19th-Century Lanka." In ''The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere'', ed. H.L. Seneviratne. Societa Editrice Fiorentina-Manohar, 2009. * "Writing Histories from Landscape and Architecture: Sukhothai and Chiang Mai." ''Buddhist Studies Review'' 24, 2 (2007): 192–225. * "Localizing Lineage: Importing Higher Ordination in Theravadin South and Southeast Asia." In ''Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia'', ed. John Holt, Jonathan Walters and Jacob Kinnard. SUNY Press, 2003. * "Notes on Sri Lankan Temple Manuscript Collections." ''Journal of the Pali Text Society''. 27 (2002): 1-59. * "Serendipity and Sadness." In Excursions and Explorations: Cultural Encounters Between the United States and Sri Lanka, ed. Tissa Jayatilleke. (Print Pack Limited, Colombo 2002). * "Looking for the Vinaya: Monastic Discipline in the Practical Canons of the Theravada." ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies''. 22, 2 (1999): 281–309. * "Magic in the Monastery: Textual Practice and Monastic Identity in Sri Lanka." ''History of Religions''. 38 (1999): 4:354-372.

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