Pankaj Jain (University of North Texas)

Pankaj Jain
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of North Texas

email: pankajaindia@gmail.com
url:   http://unt.academia.edu/pankajjain/  

Description of work:

Pankaj Jain is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas 
where he is teaching courses related to South Asian Religions and Ecology. 
Earlier he has also taught Indian Films, Sanskrit, Hindi/Urdu languages 
and literatures at North Carolina State University, Rutgers, Kean, New 
Jersey City University, and University of Iowa. He is interested to 
connect ancient traditions with contemporary issues which he dealt with in 
his dissertation Indic Traditions and Ecology. He has published portions 
from his research in journals such as Religious Studies Review, 
Worldviews, Religion Compass, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, and Visual 
Anthropology and is currently working on his monograph Dharma and Ecology. 
He received his Masters degree from Columbia University and doctorate from 
the University of Iowa.