Vanessa R. Sasson
Director
Elijah Educational Network

Vanessa R. Sasson is a professor of Comparative Religion in the Liberal Arts Department of Marianopolis College, where she has been teaching since 1999. She is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, as well as Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. She is the author of The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions (Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, 2007) and co-editor of a forthcoming book entitled, Imagining the Fetus: Embryology and Mythology From Around the World (AAR Religion and Culture Series, New York: Oxford University Press). She is also deeply committed to interfaith work. Among her interfaith activities, she directs an annual Graduate Interfaith Seminar at McGill and is the Canadian director of the Elijah Educational Network.

E-mail: admin(at)elijah-interfaith.org