Stephanie Kaza

Stephanie Kaza is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. She is a writer, a practicing Soto Zen Buddhist, and an active proponent of religious dialog. She teaches religion and ecology. She combines an academic background in science, education, and theology in her writing, which is often categorized under the term spiritual ecology.

Professional biography

Stephanie Kaza attended Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated in 1964. She went on to Oberlin College for a B.A. in biology and Stanford University for a M.A. in education, finishing in 1968 and 1970 respectively. Kaza earned her PhD in biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979. In 1991, Kaza finished work at the Starr King School of Ministry, earning a Master of Divinity degree. She has studied with Thich Nhat Hanh and Joanna Macy.

Kaza has worked as a high school, community college, and university teacher. She has been a lecturer, instructor for the Sierra Wilderness Institute, education director for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, and education coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley botanical gardens. Kaza began her work at the University of Vermont (UVM) in 1991 as an assistant professor and became a full professor, her current position, in 2005.

At UVM, she teaches both undergraduate and graduate students in the field of environmental humanities, which comprises religion and ecology, environmental justice, American nature philosophers, issues of race and culture in natural resources, ecofeminism, and issues related to consumerism.

Outside the academic walls of UVM, Kaza serves as President of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. She participates in the Religion and Ecology group of the American Academy of Religion. She writes a regular ecology column for Turning Wheel, journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

Books

*Kaza, Stephanie. "The Attentive Heart: Conversations with Trees" (Fawcett, 1993). ISBN 0449907791
*Kaza, Stephanie, and Kenneth Kraft, eds. "Dharma Rain" (Shambhala, 2000). ISBN 1570624755
*Kaza, Stephanie, ed. "Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume" (Shambhala, 2005). ISBN 1590301722
*LeBouef, Burney J. and Stephanie Kaza, eds. "Natural History of Ano Nuevo" (Boxwood Press, 1981). ISBN 0910286779

Articles online

* [http://www.dhushara.com/book/renewal/voices2/budfem.htm Acting with Compassion]
* [http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/392/626 The Attentive Heart]
* [http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2854 A Buddhist Response to Paul Ingram]
* [http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC29/Kaza.htm A Community of Attention]
* [http://www.uvm.edu/~skaza/?Page=publications/default.html#articles Kaza's Collection of Articles]

References

* [http://www.dharmaavenue.com/faces-lives/stephanie-kaza.htm Dharma Avenue] Profile of Kaza
* [http://www.earthcharterusa.org/newsletter_nov99.html Earth Charter USA Interview] with Kaza
*Stephanie Kaza's [http://www.uvm.edu/~skaza/ UVM website]

External links

* [http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/search/authors/view?firstName=Stephanie&middleName=&lastName=Kaza&affiliation= Link] to Kaza's articles in The Trumpeter, Journal of Ecosophy
* [http://www.monasticdialog.com/au.php?id=280 Monastic Interreligious Dialogue]
* [http://www.bpf.org/html/turning_wheel/turning_wheel.html Turning Wheel Journal]
* [http://www.wholeterrain.org/bio.cfm?Contributor_ID=205 Whole Terrain] link to Kaza's articles published in Whole Terrain
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