Christian Konrad Wedemeyer (born 1969) is an American scholar and political and social activist.

He is Associate Professor of the History of Religions and Chair of the History of Religions Area at the Divinity School,[1] an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Assistant Marshal of the University of Chicago.

In addition to historical and philological studies of Sanskrit and Tibetan religious literature, he has written on the historiography of Esoteric Buddhism and its antinomianism currents, textual criticism and strategies of legitimating authority in classical Tibetan scholasticism, and the semiology of esoteric Buddhist ritual.

In 2010, he was elected to a three-year term as Co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion.

[9] He has consulted for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CNN, the United States Department of Justice, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a number of European scientific organizations.