Pamela D. Winfield

Pamela D. Winfield is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Elon University, NC. Her award-winning book Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism and her co-edited volume (with Steven Heine) entitled Zen and Material Culture were both published by Oxford University Press. She has edited several themed issues of CrossCurrents Journal and published extensively on the intersections of religion, art, politics, gender, and the body.

She grew up in Greenwich Village NYC, has traveled to 40+ countries, and is raising three sons with her husband.