B. ALAN WALLACE CURRICULUM VITAE

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AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Scientific and Medical Network 2001 Book Prize for The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness, 2001

Honorary Faculty Member Golden Key National Honors Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1999

John E. Fetzer Institute research grant for editing the book of essays Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground, 1999

Richard Gere Foundation research grant for editing the book of essays Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground, 1999

Balm Foundation research grant for translating from Tibetan and editing the book Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine, 1998-1999

John E. Fetzer Institute research grant for writing the book The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness, 1995-1996

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (U. S. Dept. of Education) for pursuing the Ph.D. at Stanford University, 1990-1994

George Stebbins Moses Memorial Fellowship from Amherst College for study at Stanford University, 1989-1990

Phi beta kappa, Amherst College, 1987

Moseley Prize in Religion, Amherst College, 1986-1987

John Sumner Rennels Memorial Prize (for zeal in the pursuit of understanding), Amherst College, 1985-1986

Bassett Prize in Physics, Amherst College, 1984-1985

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Advisory Council for the East-West Scholars Program in the Tenzin Gyatso Institute, 2007 – present

Member of the Advisory Committee for the MIT Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, 2007 – present

Member of the Advisory Board for the World Happiness Forum, Sydney, Australia, 2007 – present

Co-chair of the Mysticism Group, American Academy of Religion, 2000-2001

Member of the Steering committee of the Mysticism Group, American Academy of  Religion, 1997-2001

Member of the American Academy of Religion, 1995-2001

Member of the Board of Directors, Mind and Life Institute, 1990 – present

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

“Buddhism in the West,” presented at Zanabazar University, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, July 28, 2007

“Principles of a Contemplative Science,” presented in the Mind/Supermind lecture  series.)Sponsored by Santa Barbara City College, January 7, 2007
http://www.cbs.columbia.edu/weblog/2007/02/super_mind_supe.html

Panel discussant on “Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: Buddhist and Christian
Perspectives,” with Charles H. Townes and William R. Stoeger. Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion, Washington D.C., November 19, 2006

“Contemplative Science,” presented at the conference on “Understanding Mind Inside  and Out: Bridging Buddhism and Modern Science,” sponsored by the Program in Science and Society, the Emory-Tibet Partnership, Emory  Contemplative Initiative, Office of the Dean of the College, and the Religion  Department, Emory University, October 12, 2006

Discussant at the conference “William James Revisited? The Importance of William  James for Buddhism and Science,” Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions at  Leiden University, September 21, 2006

Plenary speaker at the meeting “Meditation: Does It Work?,” Sponsored by the Center for Science and Worldview at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, September 19, 2006

“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness,” a plenary  Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society at St Anne’s  College, Oxford, September 17, 2006

“Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences,” presented at Zentrum für 
 Neurowissenschaft, Zürich, Switzerland, June 15, 2006

“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness, presented ” at  the “Science, Mind and Buddhism” Seminar, with H. H. the Dalai Lama, in  Santiago, Chile. Sponsored by the University of Valparaiso and the University of  Chile. May 5, 2006
 (http://www.dalailama.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Item id=57)

“Unmasking Idols in Religion and Science” and “Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science,” presented at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, in La Normale University, Pisa, April 26- 27, 2006

“Toward a Science of Contemplative Practice: Issues, Findings, and Experiential  Training in Meditative Quiescence,” co-presented with Dr. Clifford Saron at the  “Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference. Sponsored by the University of  Arizona, Tucson, April 2, 2006

“Naturalizing the Mind Sciences,” a keynote lecture at the conference on
 “Mind & Reality: A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Consciousness,”
Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University, February 25-26, 2006 (http://mindandreality.org/seminarkey.html )

“From Cognitive Science to a Science of Consciousness,” presented at Colorado College. Sponsored by Religion Department, Psychology Department, and Asian Studies Department, January 26, 2006

“Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being,” presented at the conference on “Gross National Happiness: Bhutan’s Unique Approach to Social and Economic Progress,” University of California, Berkeley, co-sponsored by Swissnex, Annex of the  Consulate General of Switzerland, January 24, 2006

“The Buddhist Science of Meditation,” presented at the conference “Mind and Life XIII, “Investigating the Mind: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation– Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral/Medical Sciences on the Potentialfor Healing Suffering and Disease,” Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, November 8 - 10, 2005

“Beyond Idolatry: Where Science and Spirituality Converge,” presented at the John Main Centre for Meditation, Georgetown University, Washington DC, November 7, 2005

“A Buddhist View of Craving and Choice,” presented at the conference His Holiness the Dalai Lama on “Craving, Suffering, and Choice: Spiritual and Scientific Explorations of Human Experience,” Stanford University, November 5, 2005

“The Buddhist Investigation of Consciousness,” presented at the “Symposium on the East-West Encounter: Eastern and Western Perspectives on Consciousness, Spirituality, Healing, and World Peace.” Sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center, Rutgers University, October 7, 2005

“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness,” presented at the Summer Program for Scientists. Sponsored by Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison, NY, June 26- July 1, 2005

Three lecture-series: “Scientific and Contemplative Views of Energy,” “Observing the  Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness,” and “Three Dimensions  of Consciousness: A Buddhist Phenomenology of Mind,” presented at Scuola  Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, June 21- 23, 2005

Three lecture-series: “Choosing Reality: Physics, Meditation, and Buddhism,”  “Meditation Practice,” and “Ethics, Science, and Meditation,” presented at the  Brazilian Conference of Meditation, 14 Curitiba, June 11-12, 2005

“Paths to Genuine Happiness,” Rio de Janeiro’s State University, Brazil, June 8, 2005

“Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of the Mind and Nature,” presented at the Institute of Physics. Sponsored by the Department of Theology, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, June 4, 2005

“A Buddhist View of Optimal Mental Health,” the inaugural lecture in the series “Exploring the Mind: Buddhist and Scientific Approaches to Mental Health and Healing,” Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, April 30, 2005

“Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness,” the First Annual Brown University Mary Interlandi ’05 Memorial Lecture on Contemplative Studies, Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, Brown University, April 18,  2005

“Meta-cognition in Real Time and As Short-term Memory,” Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, March 18, 2005

“A Buddhist View of Optimal Mental Health,” University of Virginia School of
 Medicine, January 27, 2005 
(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6253109357337062095&q=b+alan+wallace)

“Principles of a Buddhist Science of Mind,” University of Virginia Department of Religious Studies and the Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library, January 27, 2005

“Cognitive Science Dialogue: Consciousness East and West,” a debate with John Searle, Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University, January 14, 2005
http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/paller/home/dialogue/

“Three Dimensions of Consciousness: A Buddhist Phenomenology of the Mind,” presented at the conference on “From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology:  A Tribute to Francisco Varela,” Amphithéâtre Richelieu, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, June 19, 2004

“Meta-cognition in Real Time and As Short-term Memory” and “Objectivity and Cognitive Invariance: A Buddhist View,” presented at the conference on “Science  et subjectivité,” CREA CNRS/École Polytechnique, Paris, June 16, 2004

“First-, Second-, and Third-Person Perspectives in the Study of the Mind: Where Buddhism and Science Meet,” Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, La Normale University, Pisa, June 10, 2004

“A Buddhist Model of Mental Health,” Department of Psychology and the Center for Cognitive Science, University and Polytechnic of Torino, Italy June 9, 2004

“The Role of Attentional Balance in Mental Health,” Neuropsychiatric Institute at the UCLA School of Medicine, January 29, 2004

“The Impact of Buddhism on Western Science and Philosophy,” presented at the congress on “Buddhism in Belgium, Buddhism in the West,” University of  Louvain, Belgium, November 15, 2003 (http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/icrs)

“A Buddhist Ideal of Mental Health: Balancing Attention, Emotions and Cognition,” presented at the 2nd International Conference on Traditional Tibetan medicine, Washington D.C., November 5-8, 2003

“Outer, Inner, and Nondual Space,” presented at the conference on “Space in Mind: at the Interface of Inner and Outer Space,” held at King Alfred's College, Winchester, April 11-13, 2003

“Vacuum States of Consciousness: A Tibetan Buddhist View,” presented at the 5th Biennial International Symposium of Science, Technics and Aesthetics: “Space,  Time and Beyond,” Lucerne, Switzerland, January 18 - 19, 2003

“Why the West Has No Science of Consciousness: A Buddhist View,” presented at the conference on “Indic Contributions to a Global Renaissance,” Columbia University Institute of Buddhist Studies, July 26-29, 2002

“A Science of Consciousness: Buddhism (1) the Modern West (2),” presented at the conference on “Wisdom, Compassion, and Consciousness: Buddhist Practice and Cognitive Science.” Sponsored by the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, May 10, 2002

“The Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion,” presented as part of the lecture series on “Science, Religion, and the Human Experience,” University of California, Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, June 1, 2001
http://www.srhe.ucsb.edu

“Vacuum States of Consciousness: A Tibetan Buddhist View,” presented at the 5th conference on “Nothing in Common: Scientific and Contemplative Views on Nothing,” University of California, Santa Barbara, May 11-12, 2001

“Cosmology in Science, a Buddhist Reflection,” presented at the conference on “Religion and Its New Challenges,” Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, April  6 - 7, 2001

“The Humoral Theory and Models of Optimal Physical and Mental Health in Traditional Tibetan Medicine,” University of Virginia School of Medicine, October 25, 2000

“A Reassessment of the Status of Buddhism as a Non-theistic Religion,” Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, October 25, 2000

“Vital Energies and Healing: Ancient and Modern Perspectives,” presented at the 3rd Annual University of California, Santa Barbara Conference on Global Medicine, entitled “The Influence of Mind on Healing and Dying,” May 20, 2000

“The Retinal Blind Spot in the Scientific Vision of Our Origins,” presented in the Veritas Forum Lecture Series entitled “Our Journey: Origins and Destinations,” University of California, Santa Barbara, May 7, 2000

“The Refinement and Epistemic Uses of Mental Perception in Tibetan Buddhism,” a plenary lecture presented at the conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness: Tucson 2000, sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies, the University of Arizona, April 10, 2000

“First-, Second-, and Third-person Methods for Studying Consciousness,”
Department of East Asian Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, February 14, 2000

“The Encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Science,” presented at the symposium on “Representing Tibet,” University of Colorado, Boulder. Sponsored  by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, Center for Asian Studies, and the School  of Law, January 28-30, 2000

“Is Buddhism Really Non-theistic?” Presented at the National Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Boston, Mass., November 1999

“The Buddhist Pursuit of Spiritual Awakening and the Scientific Pursuit of Objective Knowledge,” presented at the conference on “Globalizing Philosophy: Comparing Eastern and Western Approaches to the Central Metaphysical Issues of Philosophy and Science,” Department of Religion, Columbia University, April 16-17, 1999

“Monastic Education in Traditional Tibet,” presented at the conference on “Life in Traditional Tibet,” University of California, Santa Barbara, January 22-24, 1999

“Tibetan Medicine in the Context of Tibetan Buddhism,” presented at the First
 International Congress on Tibetan Medicine, sponsored by George Washington
 University Medical Center, in Washington DC, November 9, 1998

“Training the Attention and Exploring Consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism” presented at the conference on “Toward a Science of Consciousness,” sponsored by the  University of Arizona, April 27, 1998

“A Madhyamaka Critique of the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics,” presented at the conference on “The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics.” Sponsored by the Philosophy Department, Rutgers University, April 17, 1998

“Buddhism and Modern Science,” a guest lecture in the class “The Spiritual Experience  in the Modern World” at University of California, Los Angeles, Extension, March  3, 1998

“A Madhyamaka View of the Foundations of Modern Physics,” presented at the conference on “Physics and Tibetan Buddhism: Dialogues between Physicists and Buddhist Scholars” at the University of California, Santa Barbara, January 30-31, 1998

“Psychological Maturation and Spiritual Awakening in Tibetan Buddhism,” presented at the National Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, California, November 1997

“Buddhist Mind Control,” Psychology Department, Stanford University, January 1997

“The Dialectic between Contemplative Knowledge and Religious Belief in Tibetan Buddhism,” presented at the National Conference of the American Academy of Religion, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1996

“The Science of Logic in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Education” at the Third University of California, Santa Barbara Conference on Tibetan Buddhism, Santa Barbara, California, November 1996

“Logic and Debate in Tibetan Buddhist Culture,” presented at the Model of Education  Conference at the John E. Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, July 1996

“Attentional training, introspection, and the investigation of consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism,” presented at Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, March 1996

“The Place of Consciousness in Religion and Science,” presented at the conference  “Chaos, Calculus, and Comparative World Views” at Evergreen State College,  Olympia, Washington; sponsored by the National Science Foundation, August 1995

“The Tibetan Cultivation of Shamatha (Meditative Quiescence) and the Nature of Consciousness,” presented at the 2nd UCSB Conference on Tibetan Buddhism:  “The Nature of Mind in Tibetan Buddhism” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, May 1995

“The Contemplative Use of Introspection in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion at the University of Redlands, California, March 1995

“What is Meditation?” Present at Mind/Body Node of the MacArthur Foundation,  Chicago Headquarters, December 1992

“Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga,” Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington, April 1992

“The Meditative Cultivation of Attentional Stability and Clarity,” Psychiatry Department, University of California at Irvine, March 1992

“Emptiness, Conceptual Schemas and the Practice of Vajray?na,” Religious Studies Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, December 1991

“Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Relative and Ultimate Truths” and “Buddhism in the World of Science,” Religion Department, Willamette University, Salem, September 1991

“From Cognitive Science to a Science of Consciousness,” presented at the conference on “Renewal of Thinking in Science and Technology” at Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts, sponsored by Laurence Rockefeller, June 1991

“Methods and Applications of Enhancing Focused Attentional Duration” Psychiatry Department, Stanford University School of Medicine, June 1991

“Contemplative Ways of Knowing in Tibetan Buddhism” and “Tibetan Culture in the Modern World,” Religious Studies Department, Reed College, Portland, April, 1991

“A Tibetan Buddhist View of Modern Science,” Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, October 1986

ORGANIZING AND CHAIRING ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

Co-Organizer for "The International Conference on Buddhism in the Age of Consumerism" co-sponsored by the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University and the Santa Barbar Institute for Consciousness Studies at Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakhorn Pathom, Thailand, December 1-3, 2008

Co-Organizer for the conference "Awakening Within the Dream: A View of the Illusory Nature of Reality: Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives," co-sponsored by Casa Tibet Mexico and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies at La Salle Medical University, Mexico City, August 17, 2008

Co-Organizer for the conference “Death and Dying: Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives,” co-sponsored by Casa Tibet Mexico and the Santa Barbara Institute for  Consciousness Studies at La Salle Medical University, Mexico City, August 19,  2007

Co-Organizer for “The International Conference on ‘Buddhism and Science’ in Celebration of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Eightieth Birthday,” co-sponsored by  the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University and the Santa Barbara  Institute for Consciousness Studies at The Main Auditorium, Faculty of Veterinary  Science, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakhorn Pathom, Thailand, August  3-5, 2007

Co-Organizer of the conference on “Craving, Suffering, and Choice: Spiritual and Scientific Explorations of Human Experience” with H. H. the Dalai Lama, sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine, November 5, 2005

“Scientific and Buddhist Views of Energy” and “A Buddhist View of Optimal Mental Health,” Casa Tibet México, Mexico City, January 31 and February 1, 2005

Co-chaired the panel, with Princeton neuroscientist Jonathan Cohen, on “Attention and Cognitive Control” at the conference Mind & Life XI: Investigating the Mind: Exchanges Between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works, co-sponsored by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Sept. 13-14, 2003

Organizer of “Nothing in Common: Scientific and Contemplative Views on Nothing,” sponsored by the Infinity Foundation and the Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara, May 11-12, 2001

Organizer of “Religion and Science” lecture series, Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter & Spring, 1999

Organizer of “Life in Traditional Tibet” conference, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 22-23, 1999

Organizer of “Physics and Tibetan Buddhism” conference, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 1998

PUBLIC ACTIVITIES

Public Lectures

“A Buddhist View of Mental Resilience” in a panel dialogue on “Mental
Resilience in Times of Crisis,” chaired by Prof. Kua Ee Heok, National
University of Singapore, Dec. 10, 2008: http://www.giving.nus.edu.sg/news-2008/wallace-videos.html

"Pay Attention! - Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind," presented at the conference "Hapiness and Its Causes," sponsored by the Vajrayana Institute, Sydney, Australia, May 8, 2008

"The Role of Consciousness in the Nautral World: A Buddhist View," for the seminar "Buddhism, Mind, and Matter" at the Rochester Zen Center, April 26, 2008

“The Conscious Universe: Where Buddhism and Physics Converge,” sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Santa Barbara, California, January 16, 2008
http://www.sbinstitute.com/LecturesMP3.html

"The Shamatha Project: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind," Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Santa Barbara, California, December 19, 2007
http://www.sbinstitute.com/ShamathaTalk.html

“A Buddhist View of Death and Dying,” presented at the conference on “Death and  Dying: Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives,” co-sponsored by Casa Tibet Mexico  and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies at La Salle Medical  University, Mexico City, August 19, 2007

Meditation seminar, “The Four Immeasurables,” sponsored by the Jefferson Tibetan Society, Charlottesville, VA, December 9 – 10, 2006
http://www.archive.org/details/B_Alan_Wallace_Four_Immeasurables_Retreat

“Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science,” sponsored by the Jefferson Tibetan Society of Charlottesville, December 8, 2006
http://www.archive.org/details/B_Alan_Wallace_Dependent_Origination

“Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences” at Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California, Aug. 8, 2006. Viewable at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=983112177262602885&q=alan+Wallace

Lecturing on Buddhism and physics in the “Science for Monk” program, Dehra Dun,  India, December 24 – January 2, 2005

Discussant at “The Way of Peace” conference with H.H. the Dalai Lama and Fr. Lawrence Freeman on scripture and imagery in Buddhism and Christianity, Prato, Italy, May 13-16, 1999

Public Lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, Santa Barbara, California, 1997-present

Public Lecturer on Buddhism in Switzerland, Germany, England, France, and Italy, 1976-1979

Interpreting Activities

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the Mind and Life conference “Neuroplasticity,” Dharamsala, India, October 18 - October 22, 2004

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at t the Mind and Life conference “The Nature of Matter, the Nature of Life,” Dharamsala, India, September 30 - October 4, 2002

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the Mind and Life conference “Transformations of Mind, Brain and Emotion: Neurobiological and Bio-Behavioral Research on Meditation” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 21-22, 2001

Interpreter and consultant for an NBC Dateline one-hour program on Tibetan medical treatment for metastatic breast cancer that aired Jan. 1, 2001

Interpreter and co-organizer of the conference on “Destructive Emotions” with H. H. the Dalai Lama and Western cognitive scientists and  philosophers in Dharamsala, March 20-24, 2000

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama for his lecture “The Relevance of Tibetan Medicine Today” presented at the First International Congress on Tibetan Medicine, sponsored by George Washington University Medical Center, in Washington DC, November 7, 1998

Discussant and co-interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the International Symposium on Epistemological Questions in Quantum Physics and Eastern Contemplative Sciences. Sponsored by the Institut für Experimentalphysik, University of Innsbruck, June 15- 22, 1998

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind and Life VI: Physics and Buddhism,” Dharamsala, India, Nov. 1997

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at conference on “Buddhism and Academia,” Stanford University, 1994

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind and Life IV: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying,” Dharamsala, India, 1992

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind and Life III: Healing Emotions,” Dharamsala, India, 1990

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at the conference “Mind and Life II: Transformations of Consciousness,” Newport Beach, California, 1989

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama at “Mind and Life I: Dialogues Between Buddhism and the Cognitive Sciences,” Dharamsala, India, 1987

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama, “Inner Sciences Conference,” Amherst College, 1984

Interpreter for H. H. the Dalai Lama, European tour, 1979

Interpreter for Tibetan Buddhist scholars and contemplatives throughout Europe and North America, 1975 – present

Public Interviews

”Unwavering Samadhi: Meditative Achievement and Its Impact in the World”  interviewed for Podcast “Buddhist Geeks," March 17, 2008 

“A Mindful Balance: Interview with B. Alan Wallace.” In Tricycle: The Buddhist  Review, Spring, 2008: 60-63, 109-111

Overview of Phuket Mind Training Academy by Director B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. Dec 2008

Interviewed for “The Tibet Connection: The English-Language Radio News
Magazine About Tibet,” July 27, 2007
http://www.thetibetconnection.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/tc0707-3.mp3

“Buddhismus im Labortest.” Interview published in “Die Zeit,”
March 15, 2007, Nr. 12: http://www.zeit.de/2007/12/Meditation-Interview pdf: http://hermes.zeit.de/pdf/archiv/2007/12/Meditation-Interview.pdf

“On Contemplative Science,” interviewed for Podcast “Buddhist Geeks”

“On Achieving Shamatha,” interviewed for Podcast “Buddhist Geeks"

Interviewed for “The Skeptics Corner:” http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=73

“Happiness—A Science of the Mind.” Interviewed by Paula Gordon and Bill Russell, “The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with People at the Leading Edge,” November 26, 2006
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/awallace/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-gordon/. See also “Be Happy, Start a Revolution,” by Paula Gordon. In The Huffington Post, Nov. 29, 2006:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-gordon/be-happy-start-a-revolut_b_35127.html

“Buddha on the Brain,” interviewed by Steve Paulson, November 27, 2006:
 http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/11/27/wallace/. See also:  http://souljerky.com/

Interviewed with MIT neuroscientist Christopher Moore on “The Leonard Lopate Show,”New York Public Radio, April 28, 2006: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/04/28

“Mindfulness: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation? A Conversation with Jan Chozen Bays, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Alan Wallace.” For Inquiring Mind: A Semiannual Journal of the Vipassana Community, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 2006: 4-7, 28-29

Interviewed by Rob M. Hogendoorn at Columbia University, February 26, 2006:
http://mindandreality.org/interviews.html#BAlanWallace

“Interview with Alan Wallace” by Sarah Lionheart. In Yoga & Health, February 2005: 9 - 10

“Altruism: What Science Can Learn from Buddhism.” For Science & Theology News, December 2004: 11

“Scientific Mind, Buddhist Mind.” For Inquiring Mind: A Semiannual Journal of the Vipassana Community, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 2004: 22-25

“Tibetan Buddhism in the West: Is It Working?” For Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,  Summer 2001: 54-63

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Courses

“The Culture and Religions of Tibet,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“The Life and Thought of the XIV Dalai Lama,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“The Pursuit of Individual Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“The Bodhisattva Ideal in Tibetan Buddhism,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying in Tibetan Buddhism,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Religion and Healing in Global Perspective (co-taught with Professor Catherine Albanese), Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa  Barbara

“The Contemplative Life (co-taught with Professor Richard Hecht),” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Religion, Science, and the Problem of Consciousness,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“First-Year Tibetan Language,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Intermediate Spoken and Written Tibetan,” Department of Religious Studies, University  of California, Santa Barbara

“Advanced Tibetan,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Graduate Seminars

“Seminar on Theories and Methods in the Study of Tibetan Buddhism,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Seminar on Religion and Science,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Seminar on Buddhist Epistemology,” Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Asian Languages
Classical Tibetan: complete fluency 
Spoken Tibetan: complete fluency
Sanskrit: 2 academic years

European Languages
 German: 7 years
French: 1 year

PART ONE B. ALAN WALLACE CURRICULUM VITAE