Jessica Starling is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She has published several articles on the role of temple wives in Japan, and is currently completing a monograph based on her ethnographic fieldwork on this topic. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2012, and was a Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Buddhism at the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley from 2012-2013.

 

Jessica Starling on MRB

Telling the Story of Women in Japanese Religions. On Barbara R. Ambros’s Women in Japanese Religions.