[3][4] Some specific issues he has been concentrated on include Indo-Tibetan poetry, the development of classical learning and printed literature in Tibetan cultural regions, and the history of women, saints, and Dalai Lamas in Tibet.
in Religious Studies from Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon in 1988, and an additional B.A.
[2][3] In 2000, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Alabama in the Department of Religious Studies.
Schaeffer was awarded tenure and promoted to the position of associate professor a year early, in 2004.
[5][6] He is also the past co-director, with Frances Garrett, of the Tibetan and Himalayan Religious Group in the American Academy of Religion (AAR).