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Dr. Johan Elverskog is Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Professor of Religious Studies, and, by courtesy, Professor of History. He has published widely on the history of Buddhism across Asia and is the author and editor of eleven books and numerous articles, which have won several awards and been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Turkish. He is currently working on two projects. The first – The Fathers and Sons of Chinggis Khan – is a comprehensive and synthetic history of the Mongols that explores their role in shaping Eurasian history for more than a thousand years. The second – A Barbarian History of China – is a history of the influence Inner Asian peoples had on shaping Han Chinese history and culture.

Courses Taught

• Buddhism
• Religions of China
• Cultural History of Tibet
• Introduction to Asian Religions

Recent Publications

A History of Uyghur Buddhism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

실크로드의 불교와 이슬람 (Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road, trans. Han In-Sung) Seoul: Hanul Books, 2024.

The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing
Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Buddhist Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Distinctions

Elverskog’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Research Foundation, the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Robert H.N. Ho Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others. His book Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road won the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence. He has also been a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, and the National Humanities Center.