DR. BROOKE SCHEDNECK teaches courses on Buddhism and Asian religions at Rhodes College and leads their Maymester in Thailand. She holds a BA in religious studies from Boston University, an MTS in world religions from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD in Asian religions from Arizona State University. She has lectured in Buddhist studies at the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs in Chiang Mai, Thailand. A regular contributor to the Religion and Ethics section of The Conversation, Brooke is also the author of Thailand's International Meditation Centers (Routledge, 2015) and Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand (University of Washington Press, 2021) and coeditor of Buddhist Tourism in Asia (University of Hawaii Press, 2020).