Christopher Pratt ATWOOD April 12, 2018 University of Pennsylvania 1417 Lawndale Rd. East Asian Languages & Civilizations Havertown, Pa., 19083 850 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th Street (215) 573-0849 (o) Philadelphia, Pa., 19104-6305 email: [email protected] (215) 573-9617 (fax) Birth: February 9, 1964, Boston, Mass. Education Ph.D., May, 1994, Indiana University, Bloomington. Major in Mongolian Studies, minors in History and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Dissertation: “Revolutionary Nationalist Mobilization in Inner Mongolia, 1925-1929.” Matriculated May, 1990. M.A., May, 1990, Indiana University, Bloomington. Major in Mongolian studies, minor in Tibetan studies. Matriculated August, 1988. A.B. summa cum laude, May, 1986. Harvard University. Concentration in Chinese and Mongolian studies. Matriculated September, 1982. High School diploma, June, 1982. Commonwealth School, Boston, Mass. Entered Sept. 1979. Employment University of Pennsylvania. East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Professor. July, 2016 on. Indiana University. Central Eurasian Studies Department: Chair (July, 2007-June, 2013); Associate Professor (fall, 2002-June, 2016); Assistant Professor (fall 1996-spring, 2002). Indiana University. Interim Director, Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region, October, 2009-June, 2011. Indiana University. History Department: Adjunct Professor; Medieval Studies Program, Core Faculty. Inner Mongolia University. Visiting Professor, May, 2009-May, 2014. U.S. State Department. Contract Mongolian interpreter, 1990 to 2013. Awards, Fellowships, and Honors Honorary Doctorate, conferred by the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Mongolia, December 11, 2011 Order of the Polar Star, conferred by the President of Mongolia, July 11, 2011. Fellow. Sinor Inner Asian Exchange at Peking University, Fall Semester, 2013. Stipend value $14,000. International Scholar, Academic Fellowship Program, OSI Europe: August, 2012-15 ($6,000 stipend and travel per year). International Mentor, Central Asian Research and Teaching Initiative & Faculty Development Program, OSI Europe ($8,400 stipend and travel) 2009-12. Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, academic year 2006-07. $50,000 stipend. Grant in Aid of Research, Spring, 2006, $2,500. Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, 1998-99 and 2003-04. IU Trustees Teaching Award, 2000-01 and 2001-02. John G. Hangin Memorial Prize for Mongolian Studies, 1993. IREX grant for dissertation research in the Central Historical Archives and the Central Party Archives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1991-92. Denis Sinor Prize for best graduate paper in the Central Eurasian Studies Department, 1991. FLAS Fellowship for Mongolian Language, 1989-90 and 1990-91. Phi Beta Kappa, 1986. Harvard Trustman Travel Fellowship, 1986. Used for travel in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Yanbian (1986-7), observing the present situation of the Mongols in China and ethnic relations in autonomous areas of the PRC. Harvard College Library Undergraduate Book Collectors Prize, 1986, for my collection of Inner Asian books. 3 Publications Single-Authored Books 2004 Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire. New York: Facts-on-File, 2004. 678 pp. Named one of Library Journal’s “Best Reference Sources of 2004” and one of Choice’s “Outstanding Academic Titles of 2004.” 678 pp. 2002 Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931. 2 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002. 1,168 pp. Edited Volumes 2018 (with Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky) Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies. Leiden: Brill. 2016 (with Dashdondogiin Bayarsaikhan). Ил-Хаадын судлал шинэ хандлага: өгүүллийн эмхтгэл [New Directions in Il-Khanid Studies]. 485 pp. Journal Articles 2018 (with Petya V. Andreeva) “Camp and Audience Scenes in Late Iron Age Rock Drawings from Khawtsgait, Mongolia.” Archaeological Research in Asia, DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2017.11.004 2017 “The Textual History of Tao Zongyi’s Shuofu: Preliminary Results of Stemmatic Research on the Shengwu qinzheng lu.” Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 217. 70 pp., 11 figs., 4 tables. 2015 “Pu’a’s Boast and Doqolqu’s Death: Historiography of a Hidden Scandal in the Mongol Conquest of the Jin.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Vol. 45, 2015, pp. 239-278. 39 pp. 2015 “Imperial Itinerance and Mobile Pastoralism: The State and Mobility in Medieval Inner Asia.” Inner Asia, 17.2, pp. 293-349. 56 pp. 2015 “The Qai, the Khongai, and the Names of the Xiōngnú.” Central Eurasian Studies (Beijing), vol. 2 (new series), pp. 34-63. 29 pp. 2015 “The Administrative Origins of Mongolia’s ‘Tribal’ Vocabulary.” Eurasia: Statum et Legem (Ulan-Ude), 1.4, pp. 7-45. Revision of paper previously published as “How the Mongols Got a Word for Tribe—and What It Means.” Menggu shi yanjiu 蒙古史研究/Studia Historica Mongolica (Höhhot) no. 10 (2010), pp. 63-89. 38 pp. 4 2014/5 “Chikü Küregen and the Origins of the Xiningzhou Qonggirads.” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, vol. 21, pp. 7-26. 19 pp. 2014 *“Historiography and Transformation of Ethnic Identity in the Mongol Empire: The Öng’üt Case.” Asian Ethnicity, vo. 15, no. 4, pp. 514-34. 20 pp. 2014 《説郛》版本史--《聖武親征録》版本譜系研究的初步成果 [The Textual History of Tao Zongyi’s Shuofu: Preliminary Results of Stemmatic Research on the Shengwu qinzheng lu]. Trans. MA Xiaolin 馬曉林. Guoji Hanxue yanjiu tongxun 國際漢學研究通訊, no. 9 (June), pp. 397-438. 41 pp. 2012/3 *“Some Early Inner Asian Terms Related to the Imperial Family and the Comitatus.” Central Asiatic Journal 56, pp. 49-86. 37 pp. 2012 *“Six Pre-Chinggisid Genealogies in the Mongol Empire.” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 19, pp. 5-57. Chinese translation: “蒙古帝国成吉思汗先世的六世系,” trans. Luo Wei 罗玮, in 元史及民族与边疆研究 [Studies on the Mongol-Yuan and China’s Bordering Area], no. 31, ed. Liu Yingsheng, pp. 221-264. 52 pp. (English). 2012 *“Banner, Otog, Thousand: Appanage Communities as the Basic Unit of Traditional Mongolian Society,” Mongolian Studies, 34, pp. 1-76. 75 pp. 2011 *陶宗儀『説郛』と『聖武親征録』『蒙韃備録』のテキスト伝承 [Tao Zongyi’s Shuofu and the Textual Transmission of the Shengwu qinzheng lu and Meng-Da beilu]. Trans. MUKAI Masaki 向正樹, Tōyōshien 東洋史苑 77, pp. 127-50. 23 pp. 2008/9 *“The Sacrificed Brother in the Secret History of the Mongols.” Mongolian Studies vol. 30/31, pp. 189-206. 17 pp. 2007 *“Informants and Sources for the Secret History of the Mongols.” Mongolian Studies vol. 29, pp. 27-39. 12 pp. 2007 *“The Date of the ‘Secret History of the Mongols’ Reconsidered.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies vol. 37, pp. 1-48. 47 pp. 2004 *“Validated by Holiness or Sovereignty: Religious Toleration as Political Theology in the Mongol World Empire of the Thirteenth Century,” International History Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 237-256. 19 pp. 5 2003 *“The Mutual-Aid Co-operatives and the Animal Products Trade in Mongolia, 1913-1928,” Inner Asia, vol. 5, pp. 65-91. 26 pp. 2000 *“‘Worshiping Grace’: The Language of Loyalty in Qing Mongolia,” Late Imperial China, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 86-139. 53 pp. 2000 *“Inner Mongolian Nationalism in the 1920s: A Survey of Documentary Information,” Twentieth-Century China vol. 25, no. 2, 75-113. 38 pp. 1999 *“A Romantic Vision of National Regeneration: Some Unpublished Works of the Inner Mongolian Poet and Essayist Saichungga,” Inner Asia, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-43. 40 pp. 1996 *“Buddhism and Popular Ritual in Mongolian Religion: A Reexamination of the Fire Cult,” History of Religions, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 112-39. 27 pp. 1994 “National Questions and National Answers or, How Do You Say Minzu in Mongolian?” in Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China, no. 5 (July), pp. 36-73. 37 pp. 1992/3 *“The Marvellous Lama in Mongolia: The Phenomenology of a Cultural Borrowing,” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 46, pp. 3-30. 27 pp. 1992 “National Party and Local Politics in Ordos, Inner Mongolia (1926-1935),” Journal of Asian History, vol. 20, pp. 1-30. 29 pp. 1992 “Rincinqorlo-yin ‘Ġasiġun-u dotoraki telcilegci kemekü üliger ba tegün-ü Mongġol üliger- ün jokiyal-un ulamilal daki bayiri saġuri,” Öbör Mongġol-un baġsi-yin yeke surġaġuli: Erdem sinilegen-ü keblel/Journal of Inner Mongolia Normal University, no. 4, pp. 70-74. 4 pp. 1992 *“East Mongolian Revolution and Chinese Communism,” Mongolian Studies, vol. 15, pp. 7-83. 76 pp. 1991 *“Life in Cadhota in the Third-fourth Century: A Survey of Information Gathered from the Prakrit Documents Found North of Minfeng (Niyä),” Central Asiatic Journal, vol. 35, pp. 161-99. 38 pp. 6 Chapters in Edited Volumes 2018 “Archives and Objectivity: Observations on the Mongolian and American Historiographical Experiences.” In 满蒙史探索与发现 – 庆祝中见立夫教授六十五华 诞, pp. 201-223. 22 pp. 2018 “Middle Turkic Dialects as Seen in Chinese Transcriptions from the Mongol Yuan Era.” In Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies, ed. Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky and Christopher P. Atwood, pp. 16-27. Leiden: Brill. 11 pp. 2017 “The Indictment of Ong Qa’an: The Earliest Reconstructable Mongolian Source on the Rise of Chinggis Khan.” Festschrift for Professor Futaki Hiroshi. Historical and Philological Studies of China’s Western Regions, No.9, pp. 272-306. 34 pp. 2017 “Chinese Merchants and Mongolian Independence.” In XX зууны Монгол: түүх, соёл, геополитик, гадаад харилцааны тулгамдсан асуудлууд, ed. S. Chuluun and S. Battulga, pp. 62-75. Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Academy of Sciences. 13 pp. 2017 “Jochi and the Early Western Campaigns.” In How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society, ed. Morris Rossabi, pp. 35-56. Leiden: Brill, in press. 21 pp. 2016 *“Buddhists as Natives: Changing Positions in the Religious Ecology of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.” In The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel: Aspects of the Relationship between the Buddhist Samgha and the State in Chinese History, ed. Thomas Jülch, pp. 278-321. Leiden: Brill. 43 pp. 2015 “The First Mongol Contacts with the Tibetans.” In Trails of the Tibetan Tradition: Papers for Elliot Sperling, ed.