Current Semester
Spring 2013 Courses:
RLST 203D: Buddhist Traditions
RLST 321: Religion and Gender
WS 301RH: Integrative Seminar in Women's Studies
CLS 101US: Knowledge and Community
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11-12pm (Spring 2013 semester), or by appointment
Office: Wilson 2-159
Email: hgrether@montana.edu
Phone: (406) 994-5200
Curriculum Vitae: Click Here
Research Interests
Buddhism
Hinduism
Ritual
Education
PhD, Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
MA, Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Select Publications
“Indo-European,” for Encyclopedia of Global Religions, ed. Wade Clark Roof and Mark Juergensmeyer (Sage Publications), Forthcoming
“Sanskrit,” for Encyclopedia of Global Religions, ed. Wade Clark Roof and Mark Juergensmeyer (Sage Publications), Forthcoming
“Tantric Homa Rites in the Indo-Iranian Ritual Paradigm,” in Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 21, Number 1, 2007: 16-33.
“Is There Self Identity in Sāmkhya and Śankara?” Theologica Xaveriana, April-June, No. 162, 2007: 221-237.
Awards
Professor Gerald J. Larson Dissertation Award – Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Dept. of Religious Studies, UCSB, 2010
Graduate Division Dissertation Writing Grant, UCSB, 2008-2009
Academic Senate Travel Award, UCSB, 2008
Rowney Research Fellowship, UCSB Dept. of Religious Studies , 2005
Walter Capps Memorial Award—Religion and Public Life, 2004
Rowney Graduate Fellowship, UCSB, Dept. of Religious Studies, 2002-3
Summa Cum Laude, Colorado State University, 1996
