Julia Cassaniti

Julia Louise Cassaniti is Professor of of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago and has held previous positions at Stanford University, Cornell University, Washington State University, and the University of California, San Diego. A psychological anthropologist of mind and culture, she is the author of "Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community" (Cornell University Press 2015, winner of the American Anthropological Association Lemelson Prize for Best Book in Psychological Anthropology); “Universalism Without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture” (co-edited with Usha Menon, University of Chicago Press 2017); and "Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia" (Cornell University Press 2018).