Jason ?nanda Josephson

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is a historian and philosopher. He is currently Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion and Chair of Science & Technology Studies. He received his PhD from Stanford University, his MA from Harvard University, and has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, and both Ruhr Universität and Universität Leipzig in Germany. He is the author of "The Invention of Religion in Japan" (2012, winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion- Distinguished Book of the Year Award), "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (2017), "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (2021, winner of the American Academy of Religion award for Excellent in the Study of Religion), & "The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History" (2026) all published by the University of Chicago Press.