CV: Donald Rothberg

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


Research Interests

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Research Expertise


Expertise Working with Saybrook Students

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Research Expertise

Research Expertise Rating Guide:

  1. studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
  2. special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
  3. taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
  4. used in research myself
  5. published or presented at conferences my research using this method

Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)

Laboratory Research
Field Experiments
Randomized Controlled Clinical
Quasi-experimental methods
Correlational Methods

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

Action Research
Survey Research
Interview Research
Observational Research
Epidemiological Research
Ethnography
Focus Groups
Self-Observational Methods
Narrative Methods
Feminist Methods
Content Analysis
Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy)
Events paradigm (psychotherapy)
Archival Research
Case History Methods
Appreciative Inquiry
Multiple Case Depth Research
Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design
Longitudinal research
Cross-sectional research

Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)

Ethnoautobiographical research
Hermeneutics
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
Heuristic Research

Types of Analysis

Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.)
Confidence intervals
Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA)
Analysis of Covariance
Regression (including multiple regression)
Discriminant Function Analysis
Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis
Causal Modeling
Cluster Analysis
Survival Analysis
Nonparametrics
Bayesian Analysis
Meta-analysis and effect sizes
Factor Analysis
Time series analysis
Multidimensional scaling