Miranda E. Shaw

Miranda E. Shaw is an American author and scholar of Vajrayana Buddhism. Her book, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, won the James Henry Breasted Prize, the Tricycle Prize for Excellence in Buddhist Scholarship, and the Critics' Choice Most Acclaimed Academic Book award in 1995.^[1] Shaw earned her undergraduate degree from Ohio State University, a Master of Theology (MTS) from Harvard Divinity School, a Master of Arts in Religion (MA), and a doctorate in the study of religion (PhD) from Harvard University.^[2] Shaw is an Emerita faculty member of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond.^[3]