Nicole Willock

Nicole Willock is an assistant professor of Asian religions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, with a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies and Religious Studies from Indiana University Bloomington (2011). Through her translations of writings by Tibetan polymaths, such as Tseten Zhabdrung (Tshe tan zhabs drung ’Jigs med rigs pa’i blo gros, 1910-1985), her research examines the intersections between moral agency, Tibetan literature, Buddhist modernism, and state-driven secularization projects in twentieth-century Tibet. She was a 2017 Research Fellow of The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), for her forthcoming book Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China, contracted with Columbia University Press. She served two terms on the steering committee of the Tibet and Himalayan Region Unit for the American Academy of Religion (2011-2017) and now serves as co-chair.