Help Dr. T get from Bangkok to San Diego for 2024 NAASR

tenzan eaghll Start Date: Sep 7, 2024 - End Date: Jan 6, 2025
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • San Diego, CA, United States of America
  • Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)

My Travel Story

by: tenzan eaghll Start Date: Sep 7, 2024 - End Date: Jan 6, 2025
Hi, my name is Dr. Tenzan Eaghll and I need help getting from Bangkok, Thailand to San Diego, California, by November 22, 2024, where I am listed as one of the presenters/speakers at the annual meeting for the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR 2024). I am putting out the call for funding/support now because I need to leave Thailand before my visa expires on September 10, and plan to stop in cities such as Yangon, Myanmar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Dheli, India along the way (potentially), both to make new connections in South East Asia and to look for new possible academic positions for 2025-2026 academic year.

Further backstory: For the the last two years I have worked as a Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Global Buddhism, Institute of Science, Innovation and Culture, Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep, Bangkok, Thailand. However, after publishing an article in the journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion entitled “Curators of Global Buddhism: A Critical Genealogy and Decolonial Reading of Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Buddhist Studies,” in February 2024, I faced increased departmental backlash, cyber attacks, personal attacks, and was ultimately fired on Aug 30 2024, without severance pay, ten days before my visa was set to expire.

Of course, for legal reasons, I don’t want to assert any direct link between the publishing of my article and my subsequent firing, and merely note the unfortunate coincidence of the above events to explain my current request for funding. My primary goal at the moment is just to be proactive, leave the country of Thailand, and continue my research and writing elsewhere. The past is the past, it is time to move on... and any help you could provide to help that the journey forward toward a brighter future would warm my heart.

Thank you for your consideration,

Tenzan Eaghll
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • San Diego, CA, United States of America
  • Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)