Ann Gleig serves as Program Director on AAR’s Board of Directors.
Gleig is an Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. Her research areas include Buddhism in America, engaged Buddhism, and New Religious Movements with a focus on race, gender and sexuality. She is the author of American Buddhism: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019), co-editor of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism (SUNY Press, 2013) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her co-written book on sexual abuse in Buddhism with Amy Langenberg will be published in 2026 by Yale University Press. She is on the leadership team of the Religion and Sexual Abuse project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and a member of Spirituality and the Ethics of Religious Borrowing: A Sacred Writes Working Group funded by the John Templeton Foundation.