B.A, M.A, and Ph.D. Indiana University
- Asian Studies 150 - ASIAN SOCIETIES PAST & PRESENT
- Asian Studies 205 - TOPICS IN ASIAN STUDIES
- History 105 - TOPIC:MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE
- History 205 - TOPIC:ASIAN SOCIETY PAST/PRES
- History 281 - ORIGINS OF CHINESE CIVILIZATN
- History 282 - LATE IMPERIAL CHINA
- History 288 - JAPANESE CIVILIZATION
- History 305 - ADV TOPIC: THE VIETNAM WAR
- History 305 - TOPIC:IMAGINING ASIA
- History 389 - EAST ASIA IN THE MODERN WORLD
- History 460 - INTERNSHIP
- History 482 - MODERN CHINA
- History 485 - SENIOR SEMINAR
- History 488 - MODERN JAPAN
Book
Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire: A Documentary History [Brill’s Inner Asian Library 13] (Leiden: Brill, 2005).
Recent Articles
"Imperial State Formation in Inner Asia: The Early Turkic Empires (6th to 9th Centuries),"Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 58/1 (2005), pp. 101-111.
"The Yenisei Kyrgyz from Early Times to the Mongol Conquest,:" in Hasan Celâl Güzel, C. Cem Oguz, and Osman Karatay, eds., The Türks (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), vol. 1, pp. 480-488.
"The Uighur-Chinese Conflict of 840-846," in Nicola Di Cosmo, ed., Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800) [Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 8: Central Asia, vol. 6] (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 73-103.
"Breaking the Orkhon Tradition: Kirghiz Adherence to the Yenisei Region after A.D. 840," Journal of the American Oriental Society 119/3 (July-September 1999), pp.
390-403.
Recent Papers
"The Role of the Tuoba Kingdoms of North China in the Imperial State Formation of the Early Türks" (presented at the national meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, Illinois, 2005).
"′Shadow Empires′ and Shadow Games: Imperial State Formation in Inner Asia Reconsidered" (presented at the 1st International Conference on the Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe, Szeged, Hungary, 2004).
"Chinese Rhetoric and the Shaping of the Uighur Crisis (840 – 848)" (presented at the national meeting of the American Oriental Society, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003).
"The Question of Shamanism among the Early Türks" (presented at the national meeting of the American Oriental Society, Houston, Texas, 2002).
"Nomad Involvement in the Politics of North China during the Sui-Tang Transition" (presented at the 8th International Congress of Mongolists, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2002).
"From Qatun to Refugee: The T’ai-ho Princess among the Uighurs" (presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Walberberg,
Germany, 2001).
"Türks, Sogdians, and the Founding of the Tang Dynasty" (presented at the 1st international meeting of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2000).
"Ta T’ang ch’uang-yeh ch’i-chü chu as a Source for the History of the Early Türks (T’u-chüeh)" (presented at the national meeting of the American Oriental Society, Portland, Oregon, 2000).
Other Publications
"Late-Tang Foreign Relations: The Uyghur Crisis," in Victor H. Mair et al., eds., Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005), pp. 368-376.
"Central Asian Historiography,:" in D.R. Woolf, ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historic Writing (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), vol. 1, pp. 150-151.