Brown University

Presented by the Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative:

Daniel Barbezat

Daniel Barbezat is Professor of Economics at Amherst College. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University, Yale University and has taught in the summer program at Harvard University. In 2004, he won the J. T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History from the Economic History Association. Over the past decade, he has become interested in how self-awareness and introspection can be used in higher education and economic decision-making. He has developed courses that integrate contemplative exercises designed to enable students to gain deeper understanding and insight. His approach to these economic classes has been featured in the Boston Globe, the U.S. News & World Report, as well as on the NPR program “Here & Now.” Since 2009, he has been working with the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society as a Board Member and Associate Director of the Academic Program. He is currently writing a handbook of contemplative practices in higher education with Mirabai Bush, and a book entitled Wanting. He is Treasurer and Board Member as well as an Associate Director of the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.