Thomas Wilson
the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History
History
Hamilton University
United States of America
Biography
Thomas Wilson has written extensively about Confucian ritual and the cult of Confucius and is president of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions. He conducted research in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China on Fulbright-Hays grants in 1992-93. Wilson also received National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 1999-2000 and 2006-07. He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J. He earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago. Wilson studied Chinese at the Stanford Center and Chinese history in the Graduate Department of History at National Taiwan University.
Research Interest
Exploring Culture in the Great Cities of Asia; Emperor, Gentryman, and Commoner in Ming-Qing China; Modernity and Nationhood in China; Laozi and Confucius in History; Foucault and History; Confucian Traditions; History of Gods.
Publications
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THOMAS WILSON (2003) “Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: The Family and State Cults of the Sage of Culture in Imperial China,†in Thomas A. Wilson, ed., On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius (Institute for East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 43-94.
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Lives of Confucius, co-authored with Michael Nylan (Doubleday, 2010), Chinese translation under review by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
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“Reading the Analects in the Sage’s Courtyard: A Modern Diner’s Guide to an Ancient Feast,†The Analects: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Michael Nylan (Norton, 2014).
