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4/6/09

SLU Religious Studies Professor Awarded Fulbright Grant For Study In Japan

CANTON - The Japan-United States Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan) has selected St. Lawrence University Professor of Religious Studies Mark W. MacWilliams for a 2009 Fulbright Award.

MacWilliams will use the grant award to live and study in Tokyo for seven months next year. He will be affiliated with Sophia University and Nanzan University there, while working on a book, titled Defining Shinto.

Approximately 50 to 60 Americans are selected for the awards each year, in a variety of categories.

MacWilliams graduated from Syracuse University and earned a master's degree at Indiana University and the Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He has conducted research in Japanese religions; Buddhism; pilgrimage in Japan and cross-culturally; religion and film; religion and the Internet; and religion in Japanese pop culture. He is the editor of the 2008 book Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime, published by East Gate.

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