Jeffery D. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College. He has taught there since receiving his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000, having written a dissertation on Jain philosophy. Dr. Long is the author of several books, including Jainism: An Introduction, Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds, and Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Thought.

He has also published a wide array of articles and spoken at many venues, including three talks presented at the United Nations. In 2013, Dr. Long presented the inaugural Vīrchand Gandhi Lecture in Jain Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. In 2018, the Hindu American Foundation presented him with its Dharma Seva Award. In 2020, he received the Ranck Award for Research Excellence from Elizabethtown College, and in 2021, he received an Ahimsa Award from the International Ahimsa Foundation for his work to promote nonviolence through his scholarly work.

He has appeared in documentaries for both PBS and the History Channel and is a frequent speaker at Vedanta Societies in North America.

He took diksha in the lineage of Sri Ramakrishna in 2005.

BOOKS: Discovering Indian Philosophy (published by Bloomsbury); Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions (with Steven Rosen, published by Lexington Books); Hinduism: The Primary Sources (with Ravi Gupta, published by Oxford University Press).

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