Jason WM Ellsworth, PhD(c)
Jason WM Ellsworth is a Research Fellow, Doctoral candidate, and a Sessional Lecturer in the Sociology & Social Anthropology Department at Dalhousie University. His current doctoral research examines global Buddhism, moral economic models such as “social enterprises,” value, identity, and commodities in respect to globalization and migration. Other current and past research interests include the study of the Sociology & Anthropology of Religion, Buddhism in North America, Food & Food Movements, Theories of Value, Political Economy, Marketing, Globalization (Global Movement & Transnationalism), social justice, and Orientalism. Ellsworth is also contributor and collaborator with Culture on the Edge and his publications with the peer-reviewed blog are catalogued here: https://edge.ua.edu/author/jellsworth/. For more information on his research, writing and teaching see: https://jasonellsworth.ca/.
Selected publications:
2021. Fabricating Authenticity (Edited Volume). (Co-editing with A. Alexander). Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. (Forthcoming)
2021. Discourses of Veganism, Dinosaurs, & Religion: Legitimizing the Story of Us. Bulletin for the Study of Religion. (Forthcoming)
2020. “Glocalization in Buddhist Food Ventures on a Small Canadian Island” in J. Harding, V. Hori, A. Soucy, and J. Main (Eds.), Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. (Forthcoming)
2019. “Religion” is the Opium of the Scholar (Response Chapter) in, Leslie Dorrough Smith (Ed.), The Architecture of the Academy: Processes, Institutions, and Power in the Academic Study of Religion. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.