EMAIL: smrozik@mtholyoke.edu

Susanne Mrozik

Assistant Professor

 

Susanne Mrozik received her Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard university and her M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School. Professor Mrozik is a specialist in Buddhist traditions. She teaches courses on women and Buddhism, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist literature, Buddhism in America, and a comparative religion course on body images and practices in religious traditions. Professor Mrozik is also the Mount Holyoke College advisor for the Five College Buddhist Studies Certificate Program.
Professor Mrozik is the author of Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2007) and the co-editor (with Peter N. Gregory) of Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences (Wisdom Publications, 2007). Currently she is researching the reestablishment of the Theravada Buddhist nun's lineage in Sri Lanka.