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Natalie Quli

Assistant Editor for the Pacific World

B.A., Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
M.A., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

Natalie Quli began studying Buddhism while working toward her degree in anthropology and religious studies at Humboldt State University in Northern California. She then worked for several years as the Assistant Editor at Parallax Press in Berkeley (publishing company of Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh), which exposed her to issues of conflict between convert and birth Buddhists in the United States, the assimilation of Buddhism to Western contexts, and Buddhist Modernism. Her current work, built on a foundation of transnational studies and postcolonial theory, focuses on Buddhism in modern and contemporary Sri Lanka, as well as among Sri Lankan and convert Buddhists in the United States. Currently completing her doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union, she is Editorial Assistant for Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, a freelance editor, and a Steering Committee member for the Buddhism in the West program unit at the American Academy of Religion.

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