Pamela D. Winfield is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, NC. Her first book, "Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment" (Oxford University Press, 2013) won the Association of Asian Studies – Southeast Conference Book Prize in 2015. Her second book is a co-edited volume with Steven Heine entitled "Zen and Material Culture" (Oxford University Press, 2017).