About the Author

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ERIC CUNNINGHAM, Associate Professor of History, has been the East Asian historian at Gonzaga University since 2003. A specialist in modern Japanese intellectual history, he received an MA in modern Japanese literature from the University of Oregon in 1999, and a PhD in history from the same institution in 2004. Cunningham's research interests include Japanese intellectual, Zen Buddhism, Catholicism, psychedelia, and eschatology. He is the author of Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton (Academica Press, 2007).