Research keywords (1)：
Japanese Religions, Religion and the Body, Religion and Medicine
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2023 - 2023 Buddhism and Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan
2021 - 2023 Collaborative research project "The Moral Significance of Consciousness in Japan: Religious and Cultural Contexts"
Papers (8)：
Edward R. Drott. Sensation, Salvation, and Simile: A Study of the Saḷāyatana-vagga. Buddhism and the Body. 2023. 20-45
Edward R. Drott. Aging Bodies, Minds and Selves: Representations of Senile Dementia in Japanese Film. Journal of Aging Studies. 2018. 47. 10-23
Edward R. Drott (Role: Author and Translator). Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature of Illness and Its Manifestations. Buddhism and Medicine. 2017. 61-83
Edward R. Drott. Bukkyō igaku to jukyō igaku no kiro de: Manase Dōsan no Rōjinmon. Manase Dōsan to Kinsei nihon iryō shakai (Manase Dōsan and Early Modern Japanese Medical Society). 2015
Edward R. Drott. Aging in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Religion Compass. 2015. 9. 1. 1-12
Edward R. Drott. Review: Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan by Jacqueline I. Stone. The Journal of Religion. 2019. 99. 4. 580-582
Edward R. Drott. Review: The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. By Hank Glassman. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. xii + 292 pages. ISBN (cloth) 978 0 8248 3443 2; ISBN (paper) 978 0 8248 3581 1. Journal of Religion in Japan. 2013. 2. 1. 85-88
Edward R. Drott. Review: Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War (review). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 2012. 72. 2. 402-407
Edward R. Drott. Review: Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism. Journal of Asian Studies. 2010. 69. 4. 1251-1253
Books (2)：
Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle over Organ Transplants: America's Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics
Bloomsbury Academic 2023 ISBN:9781350254992
Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
University of Hawai`i Press 2016 ISBN:9780824866860
Lectures and oral presentations (26)：
“Fringe States: The Altered and Exceptional Mind”
(East West Philosopher’s Conference, Honolulu 2024)
Gates, Roots, and Resting Places: Theories of the Senses in Premodern Japan (cancelled due to COVID travel restrictions)
(Académie du Midi, Alet-les-Bains (France))
Buddhist Theories of the Senses in Premodern Japan
("Bodies of Buddhism: Somaesthetic Explorations," Boca Raton Campus of Florida Atlantic University, the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture 2020)
Old Age and Aging in Pre-Edo-Period Medical Texts.
(Imagining and Developing Images of the Body in Medicine, Art, and Folk Religion 2019)
Buddhist Perspectives on Excreta in Premodern Japan
(International Workshop: The Burden of Superfluous Matters: Towards a Transcultural History of Bodily Wastes 2018)
2016/09 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts Associate Professor of Japanese Religions
2018/08/29 - 2020/03/31 International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2014/09 - 2016/09 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions
2009/08/01 - 2014/08/31 University of Missouri Dept. of Religious Studies Assistant Professor
2007/09/01 - 2009/06/30 Dartmouth College Religion Dept. Lecturer
2008/03/01 - 2008/06/30 Dartmouth College Masters in Liberal Arts Program Lecturer
2006/09/01 - 2007/06/30 Reischauer Instiute for Japanese Studies Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow
2005/09/01 - 2005/12/15 Antioch Education Abroad Japan Lecturer
2004/09/01 - 2004/12/15 Antioch Education Abroad Japan Lecturer
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Awards (12)：
2022/12 - Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan Buddhism and Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan
2022/06 - Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University FLA Special Research Budget Grant
2019/12 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan Buddhism and Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan (award declined due to COVID travel restrictions)
2018/10 - Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University FLA Special Research Budget Grant
2016/10 - Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University FLA Special Research Budget Grant
2012/08 - Japan Foundation Japan Foundation Fellowship
2012/06 - National Endowment for the Humanities (US) NEH Summer Stipend
2011/06 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan
2006 - Reischauer Institute, Harvard University Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies
2002 - Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) Japanese Government Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship
2001 - American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Region Robert F. Streetman Prize for best student paper
2001 - The Templeton Foundation Travel Grant for research in Japan
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Association Membership(s) (4)：
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
, American Academy of Religion
, Association for Asian Studies
, Associate in Research, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
