Dr. Ilana Maymind

Ilana Maymind holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University. Her work focuses on East/West comparative religious thought. She is interested in issues of transition, displacement and exile. Ilana is a Lecturer at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Religious Studies, Chapman University, Orange, CA.

Selected publications:

• Maymind, I. “A Comparative Case Study: Memory, Law and Morality,” Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 18, December 2013, pp. 97-124.
• “Learning from the Past: Exile and Ethics” in Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice, ed. by Chandana Chakrabarti and Tommi Lehtonen (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
• “On the Concept of Self-Hatred: A Misnomer,” Journal of Jewish Identities, Issue 9, Number 1, January 2016, pp. 19-37
• “Exile as ‘Place’ for Empathy,” pp. 271-287 in Philosophies of Place. The Intercultural Conversation, ed. by Peter Herschock and Roger T. Ames, (Hawai’i University Press, 2019).
• Exile and Otherness. The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

Ilana is an associate editor of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, “Faith and Ethics” section and a member of Cambridge Scholars Religious Studies Advisory Board.