Background
Bodiford, William Marvin was born on December 3, 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of George Marvin and Helen Maria (Lablock) Bodiford.
Bodiford, William Marvin was born on December 3, 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of George Marvin and Helen Maria (Lablock) Bodiford.
Bachelor, University Kansas, 1980. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1989.
Before moving to University of California, Los Angeles, he taught at Davidson College, the University of Iowa, and Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan. In 2009, Bodiford participated with Shoji Yamada of International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Japan and William R. Lafleur of the University of Pennsylvania in a panel at the Associate of Applied Science annual meeting. In 2011, he sat on a panel with Steven Heine, Taigen Dan Leighton, Shohaku Okumura and others for a conference on Dogen Zenji organized by Heine"s school, Florida International University.
Bodiford researches Japanese history from medieval times to the present.
Member American Academy Religion, Association for Asian Studies, Kashima Shinryu (board directors North American chapter since 1985).
Married Margy Sylvia Heyman, January 23, 1975 (divorced 1978). Married Bong Nae Lee, September 2, 1984.