Education: BA (Hons 1), History, University of Sydney 1987; PhD, History, University of Sydney 1995

Career: Judith Snodgrass is a member of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney and Co-Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council SPIRT grant, ‘Realms of the Buddhas: Museums, Cultural Diversity and Audience Development,’ in partnership with the Art gallery of New South Wales and the Migration Heritage Centre of NSW. She writes and researches in the areas of Buddhism in the West, Buddhism and Asian modernity, Buddhist nationalism, and Western knowledge of Asia. Dr Snodgrass was Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for Zen Buddhism, Hanazono University, Japan in 2001 and again in 2004 and Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University in 2004. She is Editor of the journal Japanese Studies (see url below).

Publications include: Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Columbian Exposition 2003; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Building EM, Parramatta Campus, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia; Tel: +61 (0)2 9685-9600; Fax: +61 (0)2 9678-9610 (line 3); Email: japanese.studies@uws.edu.au ; Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcentres/ccr/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10371397.asp/ .