Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
- Boston University, Ph.D., Philosophy, January 1983.
- Heidelberg University, Germany, Philosophy, 1975-1976.
- Yale College, B.A., Philosophy and Psychology, 1972.
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Significant Publications
“Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation: Toward an Expanded Model of Buddhist Practice,” Jorge Ferrer and Jacob Sherman (eds.), The Participatory Turn in Spirituality, Mysticism, and Religious Studies (forthcoming, State University of New York Press).* “Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation: Toward an Expanded Model of Buddhist Practice,” Jorge Ferrer and Jacob Sherman (eds.), The Participatory Turn in Spirituality, Mysticism, and Religious Studies (forthcoming, State University of New York Press). * The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006). * “Awakening for All Beings: Buddhism and Social Transformation.” In Janet Ruffing (Ed.), Mysticism and Social Transformation (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001), pp. 161-178. * Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers (edited with Sean Kelly). (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1998). * “Responding to the Cries of the World: Socially Engaged Buddhism in North America.” In Charles Prebish and Kenneth Tanaka (Eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 266-286, 334-341. * “Spiritual Inquiry.” ReVision 17 (Fall 1994): 2-12. [reprinted in Tobin Hart, Peter Nelson, and Kaisa Puhakka (Eds.), Spiritual Knowing: Alternative Epistemic Perspectives (Carrollton, GA: State University of West Georgia, 1997), pp. 25-48] [reprinted with some modifications in Tobin Hart, Kaisa Puhakka, and Peter Nelson (Eds.), Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000, pp. 161-184] * “The Crisis of Modernity and the Emergence of Socially Engaged Spirituality.” ReVision 15 (Winter 1993): 105-114. * “Buddhist Responses to Violence and War: Resources for a Socially Engaged Spirituality,”Journal of Humanistic Psychology 32 (Fall 1992): 41-75. * “Contemporary Epistemology and the Study of Mysticism.” In Robert K.C. Forman (Ed.), The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 163-210. * “Rationality and Religion in Habermas' Recent Work: Some Remarks on the Relation between Critical Theory and the Phenomenology of Religion.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 11 (1986): 221-243. * “Philosophical Foundations of Transpersonal Psychology: An Introduction to Some Basic Issues.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 18 (1986): 1-34.“Awakening for All Beings: Buddhism and Social Transformation.” In Janet Ruffing (Ed.), Mysticism and Social Transformation (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001), pp. 161-178.Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers (edited with Sean Kelly). (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1998).
Important Conference Presentations
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
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Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
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| Field Experiments |
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| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
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| Quasi-experimental methods |
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| Correlational Methods |
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Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
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| Survey Research |
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| Interview Research |
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| Observational Research |
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| Epidemiological Research |
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| Ethnography |
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| Focus Groups |
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| Self-Observational Methods |
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| Narrative Methods |
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| Feminist Methods |
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| Content Analysis |
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| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
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| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
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| Archival Research |
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| Case History Methods |
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| Appreciative Inquiry |
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| Multiple Case Depth Research |
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| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
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| Longitudinal research |
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| Cross-sectional research |
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Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
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| Hermeneutics |
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| Grounded Theory |
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| Phenomenology |
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| Heuristic Research |
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Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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