Dr. Justin McDaniel received his PhD from Harvard University’s Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in 2003. Presently he teaches Buddhism and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research foci include Lao, Thai, Pali and Sanskrit linguistics and literature, Southeast Asian Buddhism, ritual studies, manuscript studies, and Southeast Asian history. He is the chair of the Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Association and the founder of the NEH funded Thai Digital Monastery Project. He has taught courses on Hinduism, Southeast Asia Literature, Buddhism, Myth and Symbolism, Southeast Asian History, and the Study of Religion after living and researching in South and Southeast Asia for many years as a Social Science Research Council and Fulbright Fellow, translator, volunteer teacher, and Buddhist monk. His research foci include Lao, Thai, Kheun, Pali, and Sanskrit literature, Southeast Asian Buddhism, and Indic philology. His recent publications appear in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the Journal of the Siam Society, Journal of Burma Studies, as well as contributions to collected articles on Buddhism and Modernity, Fragile Palm-leaf Manuscript research, and Pali literature in Laos and Thailand. His book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand, is being published by the University of Washington Press and is available in the summer of 2008.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

• Justin McDaniel, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Intertextuality and Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008): in-press.

Articles

• Justin McDaniel, “Liturgies and Cacophonies in Thai Buddhism,” Aséanie 18 (2007): 119-150.
• Justin McDaniel, “Two Bullets in a Ballustrade: How the Burmese have been Removed from Northern Thai Buddhist History,” Journal of Burma Studies 11 (2007). 39 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “A Lao Homily: the Kammavaca Nissaya Sadda,” in Recherches nouvelles sur le Laos n°18 d’Etudes Thématiques. Un numéro spécial sur le Laos. Paris: Editions de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2008.
• Justin McDaniel, “The Art of Reading and Teaching Dhammapadas: Reform, Texts, Contexts in Thai Buddhist History,” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 28.2 (2005): 299-339.
• Justin McDaniel, “Transformative History: the Nihon Ryoiki and the Jinakalamalipakaranam.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 25.1 (2002): 151-207.
• Justin McDaniel, “The Curricular Canon in Northern Thailand and Laos.” Manusya: Journal of Thai Language and Literature Special Issue (2002): 20-59.
• Justin McDaniel, “Creative Engagement: the Sujavanna Wua Luang and its Contribution to Buddhist Literature.” Journal of the Siam Society 88 (2000): 156-177.
• Justin McDaniel, “Notes on the Lao influence on Northern Thai Buddhism,” Collected Papers of the First International Conference on Lao Language and Literature (Vientiane: National Library of Laos, 2006): 373-396.
• Justin McDaniel, “Modern Buddhism in Thailand.” In Buddhism in World Cultures Comparative Perspectives. Ed. by Steven Berkwitz. (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2006): 101-128.
• Justin McDaniel, “History of the National Library of Laos.” Newsletter of the Fragile Palm-Leaves Manuscript Project 8 (2002): 2-5. [reprinted Bakka Magazine 2.7 (2006)].
• Justin McDaniel, “The Stupa without Devotees: Have the Buddhas Abandoned Borobodur?” Aksara Magazine of Indonesian Culture, Literature, and Arts 2 (August, 2002): 13-18.

Book reviews

• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Anne Hansen’s How to Behave.” Journal of Religion. Date of acceptance June 3, 2007, 4 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of John Holder’s Early Buddhist Discourses. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2006.” Journal of the American Oriental Society (2006). 2 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Donald Swearer’s Becoming the Buddha.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.” Journal of the History of Religions 47.1 (August, 2007): 96-100.
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Daniel Veidlinger’s Spreading the Dhamma.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 38.3 (October, 2007): 590-592.
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Craig Reynolds’s Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.” Aséanie 18 (2006): 193-197.
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Donald Swearer and Sommai Premchit’s The Legend of Queen Cama.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 122.1 (March, 2002).
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Ranjini Obeyesekere’s Portraits of Buddhist Women.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics (2004).
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Braginsky, Vladimir, ed. Classical Civilisations of South East Asia: An Anthology of Articles Published in the Bulletin of SOAS,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 123.2 (June, 2004).
• Justin McDaniel, "Review of Peter Jackson's Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. Journal of the Siam Society 92 (2004).

Translations

• Justin McDaniel, trans. (from the Thai), “The History of the Washington Buddhavanaram Temple,” The Pluralism Project CD Rom, ed. Diana Eck. Cambridge: The Pluralism Project, (2000): 3 pp.

Encyclopedia articles

• Justin McDaniel, “History of Lao Buddhism.” Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004: 2 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “Paritta and Raksa Texts.” Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004: 2 pp.

ACCEPTED OR IN-PRESS:

Articles

• Justin McDaniel, “Notes on the Study of Pali Grammar in Thailand.” Carol Anderson, Susanne Mrozik, R. M. W. Rajapakse, editors. Embedded Religions: Essays in Honor of W. S. Karunatillake. Colombo, Sri Lanka: S. Godage and Brothers, 2007. 97 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “Questioning Orientalist Power: The French and Buddhism in Laos,” Collected Papers of the International Conference of Lao Studies (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL). Date of Acceptance: May 22, 2005. 20 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “An Interesting Burmese Manuscript of the Culavamsa.” Newsletter of the Fragile Palm-Leaves Manuscript Project 9 (2007).

Book Reviews

• Justin McDaniel, “Review of Bailey and Mabbett’s The Sociology of Early Buddhism.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Date of Acceptance: July 15, 2004. 2 pp.
• Justin McDaniel, “Review of John Miksic’s Historical Dictionary of Ancient Southeast Asia.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Date of acceptance (February, 2008).
• Justin McDaniel, "Review of Craig Reynolds, ed. O.W. Wolters, Early Southeast Asia," Journal of the American Oriental Society, Date of Acceptance, May, 2008.

Chapters in edited volumes

• Justin McDaniel, “Philosophical Embriology: Buddhist texts and the Ritual Construction of a Fetus.” In Imagining the Fetus. Ed. by Vanessa Sasson. Submitted June 15, 2005. 23 pp.

Work in Progress

• Justin McDaniel, Thai Buddhism: Histories, Modernities, Morphologies, and Cacophonies, expected 2009.
• Justin McDaniel and Steven Collins, “Gender and Pali Scholarship in Modern Thailand,” expected 2008.