Bryan J. Cuevas (born 1967) is an American Tibetologist and historian of religion.
He is John F. Priest Professor of Religion and Director of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at Florida State University, where he specializes in Tibetan Buddhist history, literature, and culture.
[1] His research focuses on Tibetan history and historiography, hagiography and biographical literature, Buddhist popular religion, the literary history of death narratives and death-related practices, and the politics of magic and ritual power in premodern Tibetan societies, from roughly the eleventh through the early eighteenth centuries.
(1993) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in History of Religions and Buddhist and Tibetan Studies from the University of Virginia.
His work has received fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.