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Past Member

Bryan Cuevas

Funding provided by The Starr Foundation Fund

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

East Asian and Tibetan Studies
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Bryan Cuevas's project explores the politics of Tibetan war magic from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, leading up to and following the establishment of the office of Dalai Lama and the formation of a centralized Tibetan state. His research will look at the political uses of magic, the links between religion, violence, and war, and the role of religious ritual in the construction of sociopolitical identities.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of Virginia
Ph.D.
2000
University of Virginia
M.A.
1993
Emory University
B.A.
1989

Honors

2013
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2013
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Appointments

Department of Religion, Florida State University
2011
Professor
Department of Religion, Florida State University
2006–2011
Associate Professor
East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley
2005–2006
Freeman Visiting Professor
Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University
2001–2002
Visiting Fellow