Monica Lindberg Falk is a Social Anthropologist at Lund University, Sweden. She is the author of Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered orders in Thailand (2007), and has published several articles on themes related to gender, Buddhism, socially engaged Buddhism, and Buddhism and disasters.
Falk's detailed study adds much to an understanding of how the tsunami disaster was confronted in Thailand. It also offers insights that are relevant to the understanding of major disasters elsewhere. Charles Keyes, University of Washington, The Journal of Asian Studies