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Curriculum Vita

Michael C. Brose

Indiana University 2602 North Browncliff Lane

East Asian Studies Center Bloomington, IN 47408

Pan Asia Institute cell: 307-220-3815

355 N. Jordan Ave., GISB 2001 mcbrose@gmail.com

Bloomington, IN 47405

brosemc@iu.edu; office phone: 812-855-4403

EMPLOYMENT:

Director, East Asia Study Center, Indiana University, 8/2017-present

Director, Pan Asia Institute, Indiana University, 8/2017-present

Academic Specialist, Central Eurasian Studies, 8/2017-present

Associate Professor, History, University of Wyoming, 9/2006-8/2017

Department Chair, History, University of Wyoming, 8/2009-8/2015

Interim Chair, Department of History, University of Wyoming, 9/2008-8/2009

Interim Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Wyoming, 9/2008-8/2009

Assistant Professor, History, University of Wyoming, 9/2000 - 2006

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Asian & Middle East Studies, May, 2000

M.A., University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies, June, 1991

M.Sc., University of British Columbia, Microbiology, June, 1985

B.S., Seattle Pacific University, June, 1978. Major area: Biology

Other: National Taiwan University, Department of History, exchange graduate student 9/91-5/92

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

Research Grants:

2019 University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center Research Travel Grant, $750

2019 Indiana University Vice President for International Affairs, Gateway Conference Support

Grants, $3,500 supporting two international conferences held at the Berlin Gateway.

2018 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsföderung Conference Support Grant, 2019 “Halal

Economies in Non Muslim Societies,” Berlin, €22,000; co-PI Rano Turaeva, Max Planck

Institute.

2016 UW, International Programs, International Travel Grant, Nanjing, $2,000.

2015 UW, Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, Yunnan Research Grant, $3,000.

2015 UW, Center for Global Studies, Yunnan Research Grant, $3,000.

2013 UW American Heritage Center, Faculty Research Grant, $1,500

2012-13 UW, Faculty Grant-in-Aid, “Network Analysis of Yuan Elites,” $7,200

2010 NEH Digital Humanities Workshop, UCLA, Institute for Pure & Applied Math, Workshop

Participation Selection (travel, lodging, workshop materials)

2008 Asian Educational Media Service, Digital Video Asia Workshop award, 5/18-19/08.

2006-07 American Council of Learned Societies, China Research Grant, $23,000

2006-07 U.S. Library of Congress, John Kluge Fellowship, $20,700

2006-07 UW, Office of Research, Faculty Grant-in-Aid, $7,500.

2006-07 UW, Academic Affairs, Flittie Sabbatical Salary Augmentation Award, $12,500.

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2004 UW, International Programs, International Travel Grant, Yunnan Research and

Conference, $1,125

2001 UW, Alumni Assn., Faculty Growth Grant, Nanjing University, Yuan Studies Conf. $800

2001 UW, Arts & Sciences Caitlin Long Grant, Nanjing University, Yuan Studies Conf., $500

2001 UW International Programs, International Travel Grant, Yunnan Research Trip, $2,000

Teaching and Administrative Grants:

2019 IU, HL School of Global & International Studies New Course Development Grant, $2,000.

2018-22 US Department of Education IU East Asian Studies Center, Title VI NRC & FLAS,

$2,365,240.

2015 UW, Academic Affairs, History Graduate Recruiting Grant, $8,700.

2014 UW, Academic Affairs, History Graduate Recruiting Grant, $10,000.

2013 UW, Center for Teaching and Learning, Curriculum Development & Assessment Grant,

$1,300

2009 UW, American Heritage Center, course development grant $2,500

2005 Social Science Research Council, Eurasia Program Course Development Grant, "Modern

Silk Roads: China and Central Asia Reconnected," $7,000

2005 UW, Summer Innovative Course Grant, Kobe Women’s College Study Abroad Program,

“Modern Japanese Culture and History,” $7,000.

2005 U.S. Department of Education Institutional Grant, International Studies Program,

University of Wyoming (grant team faculty member)

2002 UW, American Heritage Center, course development grant “Asia Through American

Eyes,” $2,250

1999 Hewlett Foundation, Teaching Grant – New Course Development "Pluralism and Unity,"

$1,000 Whitman College, Dept. of Religious Studies

Finalist – Grants

2016 American Academy of Religion-Luce-US State Department, Franklin Fellow

Finalist selected by AAR-Luce Committee

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION (with intended publisher): Michael C. Brose and Su Min, “Pedagogy as Marketing: Halal E-Commerce in Yunnan,”

Ethnographies of Islam in China, ed. Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha. Final copy-edit in publication.

“Memory of the Shadian Incident,” J. of Muslim Minority Affairs, in prep.

“Social Geography of Yuan Dynasty Jiqing Circuit,” Journal of Song Yuan Studies, in prep.

Managing The Frontiers in Yuan China, monograph project, Routledge, in prep.

“Uyghurs in the Eyes of the Mongols,” in The Mongol World, ed. Timothy May and Michael

Hope. Routledge Press, in preparation for publication.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

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“China and Transregional Halal Circuits,” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 5 (2018):

208-227.

“Кыпчаки в период монгольского правления в Китае: сетевой анализ,” in Семья в

Центральной Азии:новые перспективы изучения, tr. Elyor Karimov, ed. Sophie Roche (Berlin:

Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2018): 274-292.

“Permitted and Pure: Packaged Halal Snack Food from Southwest China,” International Journal

of Food Design 2.2 (2017): 167-182.

“The Medieval Uyghurs of the 8th through 14th Centuries,” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia

of Asian History, ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, online

publication:

http://asianhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780

190277727-e-232 .

“Qipchak Networks of Power in Mongol China, in How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society,

ed. Morris Rossabi (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2017): 69-86.

“A Network Analysis of Qipchaks in Mongol China,” in The Family in Central Asia: New

Perspectives, ed. Sophie Roche (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2017): 289-308.

“Yunnan’s Muslim Heritage,” in China’s Encounters on the South and Southwest: Reforging the Fiery

Frontier Over Two Millennia, ed. J.A. Anderson & J.K. Whitmore (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2015):

135-155.

“Neo-Confucian Uyghur Semuren in Koryŏ and Chosŏn Korean Society and Politics,” in

Eurasian Influences on Yuan China, ed. Morris Rossabi (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian

Studies, 2013): 178-199.

“Globalization and the Chinese Muslim Community in Southwest China,” Asia Pacific: Perspectives

10.1 (May, 2011): 61-80. Available online at:

http://usf.usfca.edu/pac_rim/new/research/perspectives/APP_v10n1_Brose.pdf

“People in the Middle: Uyghurs in the Northwest Frontier Zone,” in Battlefronts Real and

Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, ed. Don J. Wyatt (New York:

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 253-89.

Subjects and Masters: Uyghur Elites in Mongol China, Western Washington University, Center

for East Asian Studies Press (2007). Online PDF at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/1

“Realism and Idealism in the Yuanshi Chapters on Foreign Relations,” Asia Major 3rd ser. 19.1-2

(2006): 327-47.

“Uyghur Technologists of Literacy and Reading in Mongol China,” T'oung Pao 91.4-5 (2005):

396-435.

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"Central Asians in Mongol China: Experience of 'Other' from Two Perspectives." Medieval

History Journal 5.2 (2002): 267-289.

“Uighurs and Technologies of Literacy,” in Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology,

ed. Michael Gervers and Wayne Schlepp. Toronto: Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, no.

4 (2000): 15-26.

NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

“The Yuan Dynasty,” in Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History, ed. Victor Cunrui

Xiong and Kenneth J. Hammond, London & New York: Routledge, 2019.

“Immigrant Religions in Mongol China,” “Semuren,” “Uyghuristan,” “Uyghurs,” “Yuan Society,”

and “Yunnan,” Entries in The Mongol Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Timothy May,

Santa Barbara and Denver: ABC-CLIO, 2017.

“Yuan dynasty period, 1279–1368.” The Encyclopedia of Empire. John Wiley and Sons, (2016):

China, imperial: 6, 1–6. Online publication: OI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe282.

“Chinggis Khan,” in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, ed. Kerry Brown. 3 vols. Great

Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2014; vol. 2, pp. 761-774.

“Islam in China,” in Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History, ed. Naomi

Standen (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 59-66.

“论全球伊斯兰的本土化：以云南省清真寺建筑为例” (“Essay on the Indigenization of

Globalized Islam: The Example of Mosque Construction in Yunnan”), tr. Wang Wenjun and Yao

Jide, 云南回族研究 (Yunnan Huizu Yanjiu) 2013.1: 48-57.

Michael Brose and Marianne Kamp, “U.S. – Saudi Relations to 1991: Oil and Security,” in Why

the U.S. Needs Saudi Arabia, ed. Winberg Chai (Indianapolis: University of Indianapolis Press,

2011): 1-24.

“明初云南的畏兀儿人及其穆斯林后裔” [“Early Ming Uyghurs in Yunnan and their Muslim

Descendants”], in 首届塞典赤研究国际会议论文集 [Proceedings of the First International

Symposium on Sayyid Ajall Omer Shams al-Din], tr. Yao Jide, ed. Gao Fayuan (Kunming: Yunnan

Daxue chubanshe, 2004): 396-403.

"Uygurs Under Mongol Rule," in The Turks, ed. Hasan Celal Güzel, C. Cem Oguz, Osman

Karatay, 6 vols. (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002): vol. 1, pp.431-438 (translated into Turkish as

"Moğol Hakimiyeti Altinda Uygurlar")

"Uygur Çalışmalarının Durumu" [The State of Uyghur Studies], anon. tr., Yeni Türkiye 43 (2002):

111-113.

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BOOK REVIEWS:

“Kingston, Jeff. The politics of religion, nationalism, and identity in Asia.” CHOICE Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries 57.7 (2020): 2244.

“Thomas, Jolyon Baraka. Faking liberties: religious freedom in American-occupied Japan.”

CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 57.3 (2019): 1083.

“Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa's Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960. By

David. G. Atwill. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.” The Journal of Asian Studies 78,

no. 3 (2019): 645–46. doi:10.1017/S0021911819000718.

“Frankopan, Peter. The new silk roads: the present and future of the world.” CHOICE Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.12 (2019): 4848.

“Marsili, Filippo. Heaven is empty: a cross-cultural approach to ‘religion’ and empire in ancient

China.” CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.10 (2019): 3935.

“Kim, Cheehyung, Harrison. Heroes and toilers: work as life in postwar North Korea,

1953–1961.” CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.9 (2019): 3700.

“Broadbridge, Anne F., Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire.” CHOICE Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.6 (2019): 2452.

“Ge, Zhaoguang, What is China?: territory, ethnicity, culture, and history.” CHOICE Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.2 (2018): 814.

“Ellis, Matthew H., Desert Borderland: the making of modern Egypt and Libya.” CHOICE

Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.1 (2018): 348.

“Levi, Scott Cameron, The rise and fall of Khoqand, 1709–1876: Central Asia in the global age.”

CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 55.11 (2018): 4149.

“Charles R. Kim, Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea.” CHOICE

Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 55.7 (2018): 2539.

“David Brophy, Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier.” American

Historical Review 122.3 (2017): 816-817. Online at:

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/122/3/816/3862813/David-Brophy-Uyghur-Nation-Reform-

and-Revolution?guestAccessKey=9fc577aa-a9a1-4c68-974d-eb07cf27c6a7

“Victor Zatsepine, Beyond the Amur: frontier encounters between China and Russia, 1850–1930.

CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 55.1 (2017): 309.

“Kiri Paramore, Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies.” CHOICE Current Reviews for

Academic Libraries 54.9 (2017): 4360.

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“Richard L. Davis, Fire and Ice: Li Cunxu and the founding of the later Tang.” CHOICE Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries 54.8 (2017): 3870.

“Tubach, Jürgen, Sophia G. Vashalomidze and Manfred Zimmer, eds., Caucasus during the

Mongol Period – Der Kaukasus in der Mongolenzeit.” Central Asian Survey 35.4 (2016): 588-590;

online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2016.1200830

“David Faure & Ho Ts’ui-p’ing, eds., Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous

Society in Southwest China.” The Middle Ground Journal 13 (Fall 2016) online publication:

http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/his/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-Chieftains-into-Ancestor

s:-Imperial-Expansion-and-Indigenous-Society-in-Southwest-China-Edited-By-David-Faure-and-Ho-Ts

ui-ping&cat=7&art=386

“Frank Dikötter, The Discourse of Race in Modern China.” CHOICE Current Reviews for

Academic Libraries 53 (2016): 5359.

“McLynn, Frank, Genghis Khan: his conquests, his empire, his legacy.” CHOICE Current Reviews for

Academic Libraries 53.6 (Feb. 2016): 2734.

“Zang, Xiaowei. Ethnicity in China: a critical introduction.” CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic

Libraries 53 (Nov. 2015): 1428.

“Rawski, Evelyn S. Early modern China and northeast Asia: cross-border perspectives.” CHOICE

Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 53 (Nov. 2015): 1426.

“Billé, Franck. Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity,” CHOICE Current

Reviews for Academic Libraries, 52.12 (2015): 6538.

“Rian Thum, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History.” CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries,

52.10 (2015): 5490.

“Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early

Twentieth Century,” Central Asian Survey 34.2 (June 2015): 277-79.

“Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early

Twentieth Century.” CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 52 (March 2015): 3816.

“Suzy Kim, Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950.” CHOICE Current Reviews for

Academic Libraries 51 (Feb. 2014): 3395.

“Bhalla, A.S., and Dan Luo, Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India.” CHOICE

Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 51 (Oct. 2013): 1032.

“Khee Heong Koh, A Northern Alternative: Xue Xuan (1389-1464) and the Hedong School.” Frontiers

of History in China 8.1 (March, 2013): 42-44.

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“Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth-Century Korea.”

CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 50 (2013), pp. 5752.

“Hok-lam Chan, Ming Taizu (r. 1368-98) and the Foundation of the Ming Dynasty in China.” China

Reviews International 19.3 (2012): 423-429.

“Yunnan: Periphery or Center of an International Network?” Featured Review, Bin Yang, Between Winds

and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE).” China Review

International 17.3 (2010): 305-309.

“Michal Biran. The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic

World.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 37 (2007): 230-34.

“Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang: Regional Art Centres on the Northern Silk Road in the Tenth and

Eleventh Centuries, by Lillia Russell-Smith.” Journal of Asian Studies 65.3 (2006): 621-23.

“Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire: A Documentary History, by Michael R. Drompp.”

Mongolian Studies 28 (2006): 108-110.

“James H. Cole, Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in

Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages," China Review International 11.2 (2004): 297-301.

"Feizhou Huaqiao Huaren Shi [A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa], by Anshan Li."

Canadian Journal of African Studies 36.1 (2002): 157-159.

"Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road." Studies in Central & East-Asian Religions, 12-13

(2001-2002): 258-262.

“The Philosophy of Wu Cheng, by David Gedalecia.” Journal of Asian History 35.1 (2000):

97-101.

“The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China, by Timothy Brook.” Chinese

Historians 10 (2000): 129-137.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION: 24 Nov. 2019. “Sinology Serving the State,” paper presented at Sinology During the Cold War

International Workshop, Berlin Germany.

6 Sept. 2019. “Economics in Command: Halal Food Networks in China,” International Conference:

“Halal As a Way of Life”-Circulation and Transformation of Islamic Normativity in Muslim and

Non-Muslim World, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Social, Paris.

23 Feb. 2019. Panel Discussant, “Medieval Central Eurasia,” 25th Annual International

Association of Central Eurasian Students Conference, Indiana University.

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25 April 2018. “Marketing Muslim Piety in China.” Dept. of History, Kenyon College, Gambier,

OH.

24 March 2018. “Semuren and Qipchaks in Yuan Jiqing Circuit,” The Silk Road Between Central

Eurasia and China Workshop, Indiana University, Central Eurasian Studies Department.

5-6 Jan. 2018. “Transnational Halal Flows and China,” Islam and China Workshop, Center on

Religion and Chinese Society Purdue University, at American University of Sharjah.

18 Dec. 2017. “Refugee Personnel in the Yuan Southern Censorate.” Migrations in Mongol

Eurasia conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

6 Oct. 2017. “Demographic Analysis of the Yuan Southern Censorate Bureau.” Central Eurasian

Studies Society annual conference, University of Washington, Seattle.

26-27 April 2017. “Marketing Halal Food Products in Southwest China.” Pleasure, Providence

and Purity: An International Conference on Food and Drink in Islamic Societies and Cultures.

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture, Hong Kong.

27-29 March 2017. “Marketing Halal in Southwest China.” Ethnographies of Islam in China, SOAS,

Univ. London.

12-14 March 2015. “Building the Yunnan Hui Community: Local and Trans-Local Phenomenon.”

International Conference, Social Cohesion and Diversity: Hui-Muslims in China and Muslims in Europe,

Yunnan University, Kunming, China.

http://www.gulenchair.com/articles/conference-hui-muslims-in-china-and-muslims-in-europe#

26-28 Nov. 2014. “Network Analysis of Qipchaks in Yuan China,” The Family in the History of Central

Asia Symposium, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

5-7 June 2014. “Network Analysis of Yuan Elites,” Middle Period Chinese History Conference, Harvard

University.

5-7 June 2014. Commentator, Middle Period Chinese History Conference, Harvard University.

23 April 2013. “Confucian Statesmen from Liyang in Ming-Korean Relations,” Association for Asian

Studies Conference, San Diego.

19 April 2013. “Yunnan’s Growing Ties to the Islamic World,” Conference on Forms of Exchange: China

and the Muslim World, U.C. Berkeley.

21 April 2012. “Networks of Power in Mongol China,” Symposium on Network Science in Biological,

Social, and Geographic Systems, UW

18 Oct. 2011. “Networks of Learning in Yuan China,” 12th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society

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conference, Ohio State University.

16 Oct. 2011. Panel Discussant, “Architecture and Urban Culture in Eurasia,” 12th Annual Central

Eurasian Studies Society conference, Ohio State University.

15 Oct. 2010. “Confucianized Uyghur Elites in Korea.” Institute for Chinese Studies, The Ohio State

University.

10 Nov. 2009. “Semuren in Koryo Korea,” Eurasian Impacts on Yuan China Conference, SUNY

Binghamton.

1 Oct. 2009. “New Chinese Mosques and the Eurasian Islamic World,” Architecturalized Asia Panel,

Society for Architectural Historians annual conference, Chicago, IL.

3/2009. “Surname Adoption and Social Power in Mongol China,” Association for Asian Studies annual

conference, Chicago, IL.

3/2009. “Globalization and The Chinese Muslims in Southwest China.” Conference, Religion and

Globalization, University of San Francisco, San Francisco.

13 Sept. 2008. “Memory, Memorialization and Resistance in a Yunnan Chinese Muslim

Community,” Western Conference, Association for Asian Studies, Boulder, CO.

13 Sept. 2008. Panel Chair: “Islam in China.” Western Conference, Association for Asian Studies,

Boulder, CO.

28 Sept. 2007. “Localizing Global Islam: Mosque Architecture in Yunnan Province,” 2007 Western

Conference, Association for Asian Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

6 Dec. 2003. Panel Chair: "Commercial and Diplomatic Encounters," Crossing the Borders of China: A

Conference on Cross-Cultural Interactions in Honor of Professor Victor H. Mair, Center for East Asian

Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

30 Sept. 2005. Panel Chair and Discussant: "Comparative Religion in East Asia," Western Conference,

Association for Asian Studies, Denver, CO.

14-22 May 2005. Invited Visiting Scholar. National Taiwan University, Center for Study of East Asian

Civilizations, Taibei, Taiwan.

1 Oct. 2004. "What is Hui? A Case Study of Muslim Chinese in Yunnan," 2004 Annual Western

Conference, Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA.

7-10 March 2004. "Uyghurs in Early Ming Dynasty Yunnan and their Muslim Descendants," First

International Symposium on Sayyid Ajall Omar Shams-Din, Yunnan University, Kunming,

Yunnan, PRC.

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5 Dec. 2003. "Mongol and Chinese Views of the 'Other' Across the Yuan Ming Transition,"

Crossing the Borders of China: A Conference on Cross-Cultural Interactions in Honor of Professor

Victor H. Mair, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

29 March 2003. "Realism and Idealism in Yuan Dynasty Ethnography," 2003 Annual Association

for Asian Studies Conference, New York

20-24 Aug. 2002. "Uyghur Diaspora in Yuan China," International Mongol Yuan Studies

Conference, Nanjing University, Nanjing, PRC.

6 April 2002. "Porous Boundaries: Uyghur Activities on China's Northern Frontier Zone," 2002

Annual Association for Asian Studies Conference, Washington, D.C.

28-29 March 2002. "The State of Uyghur Studies," International Symposium of Turkology and

Turkish Studies, Ankara, Turkey.

5 Jan. 2002. "Uyghuristan Under Mongol Rule: From 'Fifth Qanate' to Contested Space," 2002

Annual American Historical Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.

6 May 2001. "Remembering and Imagining in Biography: A Case Study from Yuan China," 2001

Annual Medievalist Conference, Kalamazoo, MI.

23 March 2001. "Uighur Elites in Mongol China: A Case of Preserved Identity?" 2001 Annual

Association for Asian Studies Conference, Chicago, IL.

23 March 1998. “Uighurs and Technologies of Literacy,” University of Toronto, Central and Inner

Asia Studies Forum, Toronto, Canada.

25 May 1997. “Uighur Elites in Southeast China: A Case of Negotiated Identity,” University of

Pennsylvania, Local Languages and Local Cultures of China, Philadelphia.

25 March 1997. “Construction of Identity Among Central Asians in Yuan and Early Ming China,”

Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Chicago.

20-22 March 1997. “Uighur Elites in the Yuan and Ming: A Case of Negotiated Identity,”

ACLS-sponsored conference Song-Yuan-Ming: Transitions in Chinese History, UCLA.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: 24-25 Nov. 2019. Co-organizer and Convener, “Sinology During the Cold War” International

Workshop,” Berlin, IU Gateway Center, Germany

3-4 May 2019. Co-organizer and Convener, “Halal Economies in Non Muslim Societies

Workshop,” Berlin, IU Gateway Center, Germany

25 March 1997. Panel Organizer: “Alternative Narratives of Identity and Loyalty in Tang through

Early Ming China,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Chicago.

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PUBLIC AND EDUCATIONAL LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA:

10-12 Oct. 2019. Higher Learning Commission Peer Corps Pathways Training. St. Charles, IL.

22 May 2018. Teaching Presentation: “Online Resources for Cold War History in Asia.” Annual Institute

for Curriculum & Campus Internationalization educators’ workshop, Indiana University.

26 April 2018. “The Islamic Legacy of the Mongol Conquest of China.” Panel Traveling

Companions: Monks, Mongols, Manchus and their Others. A Symposium Honoring Professor

Ruth Dunnell’s Academic Journey On the Occasion of Her Retirement. Asian & Middle East

Studies and Department of History, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.

28 March 2016. Public Lecture: “Being Chinese and Muslim: Thriving in Twin Identities,” UW Center for

Global Studies, “Wyoming Goes Global Public Seminar.”

15 March 2016. Public Lecture: “A Network Analysis Approach to Yuan History,” Yuan Dynasty

Research Group, Nanjing University.

1 March 2016. Public Lecture: “Living in Difference: Ethnicity and Citizenship in the People’s Republic

of China,” Eastern Wyoming Community College, Torrington

23 Feb. 2016. Public Lecture: “Eating Halal in Southwest China,” UW Department of History, Faculty

Colloquium

3-4 Jan. 2015. Invited participant: “Department Chairs Working Group, Creating Standards for Digital

History,” annual American Historical Association conference, New York.

30 April 2013. Public Lecture: “Modern Silk Roads,” Colorado State University, International Studies

Program.

20-22 Oct. 2011. Invited Participant, NEH Seminar “Network Analysis for Humanities: Rebound

Session” UCLA, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics.

10 Oct. 2011. Public Keynote Lecture: “Talismans of Protection in Choson Korea,” UW Art Museum, in

conjunction with visiting exhibit.

24 April 2011. Public Lecture: “The Mongol Empire,” Wyoming Bureau of Land Management,

Cheyenne.

26 Feb. 2011. Public Lecture: “The People’s Republic of China: Communist, Capitalist, or Confucian?”

University of Wyoming, Saturday University, Jackson, WY.

20-25 Aug. 2010. Invited Workshop Member: “Network Analysis for the Humanities,” NEH Summer

Seminar, Institute for Pure and Applied Math, UCLA.

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24 Nov. 2009. Workshop Lecturer: “China’s Ethnic Minorities,” National Consortium for Teaching East

Asia, Secondary Education Educator’s Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

15 Feb. 2009. Public Lecture: “The Geography of Islam in SW China,” Wyoming Geographical

Information Systems Center, Geospatial Forum, University of Wyoming.

17 March 2008. Public Lecture: “Modern Silk Roads,” Contemporary Scientific and Cultural Education

Lecture Series, sponsored by Shanghai City Government, Shanghai, PR China.

17 March 2008. Graduate Seminar Invited Lecture: “Islam in Yunnan Province,” Shanghai Normal

University, Department of Religious Studies, Graduate Student Symposium, Shanghai, PR China.

15 Nov. 2007. Public Lecture: “The Geography of Islam in China,” UW Geography Awareness Week

Invited Talk.

12 Oct. 2007. Public Lecture: “Modern Silk Roads,” UW, Board of Visitors Meeting.

21 Sep. 2007. Invited Lecture: “Modern Silk Roads: A New Course in World History,” Houghton Mifflin

Workshop on Teaching World History. Hotel Monaco, Denver, CO

24-27 July 2007. Educators’ Workshop Instructor: “Chinese Views of Central Asia,” Open Society

Institute: Higher Education Support Program, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, Almaty,

Kazakhstan.

5 June 2007. Graduate Seminar Invited Lecture: “Graduate Studies in the US,” Yunnan University

Graduate Student Symposium. Kunming, Yunnan.

20 Jan. 2007. Public Lecture: “What’s In a Name: Foreigners in Ming China,” John W. Kluge Center,

Library of Congress, Washington DC.

26 June 2006. Educator Workshop Lectures: “China Among Equals: Building Identity in Early

China,” and “Qin Shihuang’s Impact on China,” 2006 Program for Teaching East Asia Summer

Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder.

15 April 2006. Keynote Speaker: “Foreign Shidafu?: Yuan Dynasty Uyghurs in Chinese Society,”

University of Colorado Boulder, East Asian Graduate Student Association, 7th Annual

Conference, Boulder, CO.

28 Jan. 2006. Educator Workshop Lecture: “Imperial China,” National Consortium for Teaching

about Asia Teacher Training Seminar, Cheyenne, WY.

12 Jan. 2006. Public Lecture: “Modern Silk Roads,” Teton County Public Library, Jackson, WY.

3 Nov. 2005. Organizer: Inaugural “Japan-Wyoming Relations” Symposium, UW, International Studies

Program.

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15 April 2004. Panel Participant: US-China Relations: Education, Business, Culture, UW, College

of Business.

30 Jan. 2004. Emcee, 2004 UW Chinese Students & Scholars Association Chinese New Year program.

26 April 2003. Workshop Lecture: "Japanese Culture and the Draft Resistance Movement," in

Sixty Years Later:A Discussion with Heart Mountain Draft Resisters, 6th Annual UW OASIS

Conference.

9-11 July 2002. Workshop Lecturer: "The Role of Ethnicity in Mongol Yuan China," and "The

Muslims in Yunnan: Definition and Roles in Provincial Public Sphere," Yale University, PIER

East Asia Summer Institute for Educators, Defining Ethnicity in China.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, MEMBERSHIPS:

Grant Panels

Library of Congress, Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies grant referee, online, 4/2017

National Endowment for Humanities/Library of Congress, Kluge Fellowships grant referee,

Washington, DC, 12/2016

National Endowment for Humanities, Faculty Development grant referee, Washington, DC,

5/2005

Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science, Project Evaluator, 2015.

Professional Service

Higher Learning Commission, Peer Corp Reviewer, 10/2019-ongoing.

Colorado State University-Pueblo, Department of History MA Program external reviewer, 9/2016.

ACLS-Association for Asian Studies, invited faculty member, dissertation advisor. Chicago,

3/2015.

American Historical Association, “Department Chairs Working Group, Creating Standards for Digital

History,” New York annual conference, 01/2015

UW, International Studies Program, Faculty Advisory Committee member, 9/2007-5/2017

UW, Religious Studies Program, Faculty Advisory Committee member 9/2007- 8/2012

UW, American Heritage Center, Chair, Board of Faculty Advisors, 1/2005-8/2006

UW, American Heritage Center Editorial Board Member, "Primary Sources for Educators,"

6/2004

Educational Testing Service; AP Faculty Consultant, World History Exam Reader, Lincoln, NE,

6/2001-7/2003

UW, McNair Scholarship Program Mentor, Spring Semester 2002, Fall Semester 2005

UW, Asian Studies Minor organizer, 2001-02; Minor Steering Committee member 2001-2017

Peer-Reviewed Journal and Book Review Service

Sociology of Islam, Editorial Board member and article referee

Asiatische Studien, article referee

Journal of Asian Studies, article referee

Central Asian Survey, article referee; book reviewer

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Identities, article referee

Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, article referee

Journal of Religious History, article referee

Journal of Chinese Military History, article referee

Chinese Historians, book reviewer

Non Peer-Reviewed Journal and Book Review Service

CHOICE, Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, book reviewer

McGraw-Hill Publishers, world history text manuscript reviewer

TEACHING: Introduction to East Asia (lower-division undergraduate)

Mongol Century (upper-division + graduate dual listed)

Great Wall of China (lower-division undergraduate)

Chinese History (year-long, lower-division undergraduate)

Japanese History (year-long, lower-division undergraduate)

Modern Korean History (upper-division seminar)

World History (year-long, lower-division undergraduate course)

Buddhism in America (lower-division, team-taught course)

Mongol Empire (upper-division undergraduate seminar)

Comparative Frontiers (graduate seminar)

Modern Silk Roads: China and Central Asia Reconnected (upper-division and graduate level)

Ethnicity and Nationalism in China (upper-division and graduate level)

The Cold War in East Asia (upper-division and graduate level)

Asia Through American Eyes (upper-division undergraduate)

Dao in Daoism and Confucianism (upper-division undergraduate)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Yuan-Ming Chinese social history. Social and political history of non-Chinese personnel in

Mongol Yuan and Ming China.

Islam in Yunnan. Research on the history and current socio-political role of the Yunnan Chinese

Muslim (Hui) community; focus on mosque architecture, halal food industry. Archival and oral

history research.

Digital History Methods: GIS and Network Analysis. Applying digital, quantitative methods to

biographical and geographical data mined from Chinese primary sources such as gazetteers, tomb

inscriptions, official and personal biographical materials.