ERIC T. SCHLUESSEL Liberal Arts 263 32 Campus Dr, Missoula, MT 59812 eric.schluessel@umontana.edu EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Ph.D., History and East Asian Languages, 2016 Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA M.A., Central Eurasian Studies, 2007 School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK M.A., Linguistics, 2005 Connecticut College, New London, CT B.A., summa cum laude, Chinese Language and Literature, Linguistics, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004 EMPLOYMENT University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA, Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Director, Mansfield Center Program in East Asian Studies Connecticut College, New London, CT, 2014-2015 Adjunct Professor of Chinese History PUBLICATIONS 2017. Legal History in Michael Szonyi, ed., A Companion to Chinese History, [Blackwell Companions to World History] (Malden: Blackwell). (Co-authored with William Alford) 2016. Muslims at the Yamen Gate: Translating Justice in Late-Qing Xinjiang in Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit Schlyter, and Jun Sugawara, eds., Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Gunnar Jarring, (Leiden: Brill). 2016. The Law and the Law : Two Kinds of Legal Space in Late-Qing China, Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 40 (November 2016). 2014. The World as Seen from Yarkand: Ghulām Muhạmmad Khān s 1920s Chronicle Mā Tītayniŋ wāqiʿasi, (Tokyo: NIHU Program Islamic Area Studies). 2014. Language and the State in Late-Qing Xinjiang in Birgit Schlyter and Mirja Juntunen, eds., Historiography and Nation-Building Among Turkic Populations, (Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul). 2013. Thinking Beyond Harmony: the Nation and Language in Uyghur Social Thought in Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Trine Brox, eds., On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China, (Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press), 318-346. 2012. The East Turkestani Manual of the Cobblers, Humanitarian Studies of Inner Asia 1. 2009. History, Identity, and Mother-Tongue Education in Xinjiang, Central Asian Survey 28(4), 383-402.
Eric T. Schluessel, Page 2 2007. Bilingual Education and Discontent in Xinjiang, Central Asian Survey 26(2), 1-27. REVIEWS Forthcoming. Review of Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle, eds., Ethnic Conflict & Protest in Tibet & Xinjiang, Pacific Affairs. Forthcoming. Review of Tom Cliff, Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang, The China Journal. 2016. Review of Justin Jacobs, Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State, The China Quarterly. 2015. Review of Rian Thum, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, SCTIW Review, April 14, 2015. http://sctiw.org/sctiwreviewarchives/archives/528. 2015. Review of Ondr ej Klimeš, Struggle By the Pen: the Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c. 1900-1949, The China Journal 75, 230-232. 2015. Review of Maura Dykstra, Complicated Matters: Commercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing from 1750 to 1911, Dissertation Reviews. Published 1 December 2015. DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2016. Eastern Turki Glossary with Niko Kontovas. http://niko.qalaymiqan.com/eastern_turki_glossary/ GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2016 2017 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Collaborative Reading- Workshop Grant, Towards a Scholarly Edition of the Ta ri kh-i H ami di, a Chaghatay Chronicle of Modern Xinjiang 2016 2017 University of Montana Faculty Development Grant 2016 2017 Mansfield Center Grant for the Montana East Asia Workshop 2015 2016 Fairbank Center/Asia Center Joint Grant for the Ta ri kh-i H ami di Editing Group 2014 2015 Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014 2015 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship 2013 2014 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Pre-Dissertation Grant 2014 Weatherhead Center for International Studies Mid-Dissertation Grant 2014 Fairbank Center Summer Research Grant 2014 Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Graduate Research Travel Grant 2014 Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship 2013 2014 Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate 2013 Fairbank Center Summer Research Grant 2012 Fairbank Center Conference Travel Grant 2011 American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant 2011 Summer Language Fellowship Japanese
2010 Economic History Association Exploratory Travel and Data Grant 2009 University Fellowship Mongolian Language 2007 2008 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship Uyghur 2006 2007 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship Uyghur 2006 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship Uyghur 2005 2006 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship Uzbek Eric T. Schluessel, Page 3 INVITED TALKS 2017 A 1950s Chaghatay Manuscript Concerning Commander Ma of Kashgar 2 nd Xinjiang Old Documents Seminar, University of Tokyo, 2 July 2017 2017 Sacred History Between Empires: the Commander Ma Narrative in the Twentieth Century, Workshop on Islamic Modernity Then and Now, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 4 April 2017 2017 Translating Trauma in the Turn-of-the-Century Chinese Central Asia Inaugural Lecture, Humanities Institute, University of Montana, 15 February 2017 2016 Confucian Civilization and Its Discontents: Chinese Colonialism in Central Asia Central Eurasia Working Group, University of Washington, 23 March 2016 2015 Confucian Schools and the Interpreter Class in Late-Qing Xinjiang Xinjiang in the Context of Central Eurasian Transformations, Tokyo, Japan, 18 December 2015 2015 从抄本挖掘新疆地方文化史 [Excavating Xinjiang s Local History from Manuscripts], Silk Road Lecture Series No. 8, Xinjiang Normal University, U rümqi, China, 27 May 2015 2015 Immediate Execution and the State of Exception in the Qing The Place of the Law in the Late Chinese Empire, École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France, 12 May 2015 2014 Life under Li: Law and Morality in Late-Qing Xinjiang Inner Asian Law and Society: Religion and Justice, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 14 November 2014 2013 The World as Seen from Yarkand: a Transcultural History from 1920s Xinjiang Young Scholars Workshop on Twentieth-Century China, Peking University, Beijing, China, 15-16 June 2013 2012 Xinjiang and the Colonial Question: Punishment and Reform under Late-Qing Rule Kashgar Revisited: Workshop to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Death of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 12 May 2012 2011 The Uyghurs are Not Unteachable : Polemics and Reality of Reformist Education in Late-Qing Xinjiang, Stockholm International Program for Central Asian Studies, Stockholm University, 1 June 2011
Eric T. Schluessel, Page 4 2011 Through the Translucent Mirror: Imagination and Institutions in the Turkish-East Turkestani dialogue, 1870-1935, Challenging the Harmonious Society Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 20-21 May 2011 2007 Language Planning and Elite Formation in Xinjiang: History, Identity, and the Politics of Education, Central Asian Studies: History, Politics, and Society, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 15 December 2007 SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2016 Changsha Marches West: the Dingxiang Wang Cult in Xinjiang State and Society in the Contact Zone: Historical Anthropology and the New Qing History, Association for Asian Studies in Asia, Kyoto, Japan, 25 June 2016 2016 When the World Fell Apart : the Muslim Uprisings as Personal and Historical Trauma, Trauma and Memory in Modern Xinjiang (panel organizer) Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, 1 April 2016 2014 The Muslim Emperor of China: Sacred History and Apocalypticism in Xinjiang, 1870s-1920s, A&S Religious Studies Workshop: Muslims Negotiating Modernities, Vanderbilt University, 19 September 2014. 2014 Translating and Appropriating Imperial Power in Turn-of-the-Century Xinjiang, China, Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY, 26 April 2014 (Best Doctoral Paper Award Eurasian Division) 2014 Ethnicity and Transcultural Practice: Legal Categories and Legal Cultures in Provincial Xinjiang, Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 29 March 2014 2011 Disjointed Dialogue: Idealism and the Turkic Imagination between Turkey and East Turkestan, 12 th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 18 September 2011 2008 Mother-Tongue Education in Xinjiang, Past and Present, 9th annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Georgetown University, 21 September 2008 SELECTED CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS 2016 Controlling Uyghur Bodies: The New Colonial Project in Chinese Central Asia Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 1 December 2016 2016 China from the Edge: How Xinjiang s Uyghurs Have Seen Chinese Rule, from the Nineteenth Century to Today Central & Southwest Asian Studies Center, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 27 October 2016 2016 Blind Spots: US-China Relations and the Problem of Central Asia National Committee on United States-China Relations, China Town Hall, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, Missoula,
MT, 18 October 2016 2016 Changsha Marches West: the Dingxiang Wang Cult in Xinjiang Lockridge History Workshop, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 28 September 2016 Eric T. Schluessel, Page 5 2015 Mortuary Politics in Reconstruction Xinjiang Workshop on New Directions in Central and Inner Asian History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2013 Transculturation and the Intimate in Turn-of-the-Century Chinese Central Asia Central Eurasia Working Group, Harvard University, 17 October 2013 TEACHING EXPERIENCE The University of Montana, Missoula, MT East Asian Civilizations, Fall 2016 Revolution and Reform in Modern China, Spring 2017 Chinese Political and Social Thought, Spring 2017 Directed Readings in Islamic Thought, Spring 2017 Connecticut College, New London, CT The Imperial Chinese World, Fall 2014 Modern China, Spring 2014, Fall 2014 Lesley University, Cambridge, MA Adjunct Professor of Modern Chinese History History of Modern China 1800-2000, Spring 2014 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Head Teaching Fellow, Introduction to East Asian Civilizations (Sophomore Tutorial), Spring 2013 Teaching Fellow, China: Traditions and Transformations, Fall 2014 Instructor, Elementary Uyghur A-B, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Fall 2013-Spring 2014, Fall 2015 Instructor, Introduction to Chaghatay, Spring 2016 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Assistant Instructor, The Great Wall of China, Fall 2009 DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2016 Selection Committee, Kakehashi Project Director, Program in East Asian Studies, University of Montana Undergraduate Program Committee, History, University of Montana 2012-2013 Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, East Asian Studies, Harvard University SERVICE TO FIELD 2016 Conference Committee, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Convener, Montana East Asia Workshop Editor for Central Asia and Western China, SHARIAsource
2014-present Founder and coordinator, the Ta ri kh-i H ami di Editing Group Eric T. Schluessel, Page 6 2013-2014 Founder and organizer, workshop in New Directions in Central and Inner Asian History, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Anonymous reviewer for The China Quarterly, Central Asian Survey, Past Tense, and Islamic Law and Society Manuscript reviewer, Brill LANGUAGES English native; Mandarin Chinese, Uyghur proficient Classical Chinese, Chagatai, German, Japanese, Persian, Manchu, Russian, Swedish, Uzbek reading PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association for Asian Studies American Historical Association Association for the Study of Nationalities International Society for Chinese Law & History Middle East Studies Association Society for Qing Studies