University of North Texas 
Leah Kalmanson
Faculty
Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies
Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion
Founding Editor of Samyak: An Undergraduate Journal of Jain Studies
UNT Department of Philosophy and Religion
Environmental Sciences Building 320C
Leah Kalmanson is an Associate Professor and the Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the
Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. She received
her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2010. Before coming
to UNT she taught for over a decade at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Dr. Kalmanson actively engages the rich heritage of world philosophies in both scholarly
and pedagogical contexts. She is the author of the 2020 book Cross-Cultural Existentialism and co-author of the 2021 A Practical Guide to World Philosophies. Her essays appear in journals including Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Hypatia, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of World Philosophies, Philosophy East & West, Pragmatism Today, Religion, Shofar, Studies in Chinese Religions, and Teaching Philosophy, as well as the digital magazine Aeon. She is currently a managing editor for the Bloomsbury series Introductions to World Philosophies.
A Philosophy of Cross Cultural Existentialism and Dedicated Practice. An interview with Leah Kalmanson for The Global Existential Summit. October 14, 2023.
How to Think Like a Philosopher. An interview with Leah Kalmanson and Nilanjan Das for Microphilosophy with Julian Baggini, episode 5. April 23, 2023.
On Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought by Leah Kalmanson. An interview by Malcolm Keating for the New Books Network. October 20, 2022.
Symposium on Cross-Cultural Existentialism by Leah Kalmanson for Syndicate: A Living Network of Scholarship in the Humanities. August 2022.
Views from Everywhere. A co-authored article with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach for the digital magazine Aeon. March 7, 2022.
How to Change Your Mind: The Contemplative Practices of Philosophy. A recorded lecture for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture Series. October 28, 2021.
On A Practical Guide to World Philosophies by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach and Leah Kalmanson. An interview by Malcolm Keating for the New Books Network. March 19, 2021.
On "Buddhism and bell hooks" by Leah Kalmanson. An interview by Tom Burge for the Buddhist Philosophy Podcast, episode 5. July 23, 2020.