Sarah Jacoby studies Asian religions with a specialization in Tibetan Buddhism. She received her BA from Yale University, majoring in women’s studies, and her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include Indo-Tibetan Buddhist doctrine and ritual in practice, studies in gender and sexuality, Tibetan literature, autobiography studies, Buddhist revelation, the history of emotions, Buddhism in contemporary Tibet, and eastern Tibetan area studies. Her monograph Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writing of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro is the first study in any language of the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the most prolific female authors in Tibetan history, Sera Khandro Künzang Dekyong Chönyi Wangmo (or Dewé Dorjé, 1892–1940). It won the 2016 E. Gene Smith Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies for books on Inner Asia and was a finalist for the 2015 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Historical Studies.
Sarah Jacoby
