Paul G. Hackett
ph2046 AT columbia DOT edu
Basic research is what I'm doing
when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher
von Braun
Education
M.Phil. Religion, Columbia University
M.L.S. College of Information Studies, University of Maryland - College Park
M.A. History of Religions, University of Virginia
B.S. Physics and Astronomy, University of Arizona
Thesis advisor: Robert Thurman.
The dissertation presented the first comprehensive narrative of the life of Theos Bernard (1908-1947). In the context of this narrative, the dissertation examined such issues as Bernard’s place in the early history of the American subculture and counter-culture informed by Indian concepts of religiosity and the narrative of the genesis and spread of Indian and Buddhist religious traditions in America over the last 150 years. In addition, Bernard’s life and writings are examined as a paradigm of an ethnically American counter-culture religious experience and his academic activities are discussed in terms of their broader implications for the study of religion.
Thesis advisor: Douglas Oard.
This thesis reported the results of research evaluating automatic word-segmented indexing for Tibetan documents against a system using n-gram indexing in a search and retrieval system. For the thesis an algorithm for automatic sentence- and word-segmentation for Tibetan was designed and implemented in conjunction with a shallow parser performing automatic Part-of-Speech tagging.
Grants and Fellowships
2003-2004 Weatherhead Fellowship, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
2002-2003 Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University
