Degrees:
Ph.D., Yale Univ.
M.Phil., Yale Univ.
M.A., Columbia Univ.
B.A., Wellesley College
Professor Findly graduated from Wellesley College in 1971 with a B. A. in Religion, from Columbia University in 1973 with an M.A. in History of Religions, and from Yale University in 1978 with a Ph.D. in Hinduism and Buddhism, specializing in the Rig Veda. She taught at Mt. Holyoke College from 1976-1978, was a visiting curator at the Worcester Art Museum in South Asian art from 1978-1980, and from 1980 to the present has been teaching at Trinity College.
Her commitment to teaching arises from two sources: a commitment to the material, and a commitment to growth in her students. In each class, she is reminded of how important it is to render the materials she is entrusted with as faithfully and honestly as possible. One of the most challenging parts is opening up the richness of the traditions in ways that are accessible and meaningful to the great diversity of students. |
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Hinduism
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Buddhism
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Asian Mysticism
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Philosophies of Non-Violence
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Arts of India and China
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Art and Culture of Southeast Asia
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Women in Indian religions
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Women's economic role in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian Islam
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The philosophy of plants in Indian thought
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Religion and textiles in Southeast Asia
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Indian and Chinese influences on textile art forms
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- Findly, Ellison Banks, and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, eds. Women, Religion and Social Change. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. 564 pp., 54 illus.
- Findly, Ellison Banks, Editor. Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
- Findly, Ellison Banks. Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India, (1611-1627). New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2001 (digitalized text version); Rpt., paperback, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Findly, Ellison Banks. Dana: Giving and Getting in Pali Buddhism. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2003.
- Findly, Ellison Banks. Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007.
- Findly, Ellison Banks. Spirits in the Loom: Religion and Textiles in Northeast Laos (in progress).
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- Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2012.
- National Endowment for the Arts Matching Grant to publish a catalogue on Indian miniature paintings in the Worcester Art Museum, 1980-1981.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for conference on Women, Religion and Social Change, 1983.
- Mellon Fund Grant through Trinity College for leave to work on Nur Jahan project, spring semester 1985.
- Hewlett Mellon grant, Trinity College, for "The Nuns' Circle: Mandala III" project, February-March 1998.
- Faculty Research Travel Grant, Trinity College, for "Tree Protection Movements in India, Nepal, and Thailand," for Plant Lives project, 2003-2006.
- Faculty Research Travel Grant, Trinity College for "Religion and Textiles in Northeastern Laos," 2005 - 2008 and 2007-2009
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