Judson B. Murray

Biography

Judson Murray received his B.A. summa cum laude and "with distinction" in Religious Studies from The Ohio State University. He holds an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and was awarded the John and Ineke Carman Scholarship (1996-97) from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. His Ph.D. is from Brown University’s Department of Religious Studies. While completing his doctorate at Brown, he was awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Dr. Murray has taught at Connecticut College as a Visiting Lecturer of Chinese History. He currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought. Teaching : Dr. Murray teaches an array of courses on East Asian religions, including Asian Religions, Chinese Religions, Japanese Religions, Daoism, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, Human Rights in China, Comparative Asian Mysticism, and Asian Religions and Ecology. He was the recipient of the 2013 Honors Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2011 he also received an Excellence in Teaching with Writing Award from Wright State’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program

Research Interest

Dr. Murray's principal areas of research include Chinese religions and early Chinese intellectual history. He is a contributor to The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China (Columbia, 2010), The Essential Huainanzi (Columbia, 2012), and to The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China (Brill, 2014). He is the author of other scholarly publications appearing in Asia Major, Early China, and The Journal of Moral Education. His current research analyzes both theories of and debates on moral education and self-cultivation in Confucian thought.