Joan R. Piggott

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Joan R. Piggott
Born1947 (age 7677)
NationalityAmerican
Education Stanford University (MA)
OccupationHistorian

Joan R. Piggott (born 1947) is an American historian specializing in East Asian studies.

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Education

Piggott completed a master of arts from Stanford University in 1972, followed by a doctorate from Stanford in 1987.

Career

Piggott began her academic career at the University of Miami, where she was an assistant professor of history from 1987 until 1989. Between 1989 and 1995, Piggott held an assistant professorship in history at Cornell University, where she was promoted to associate professor. In 2003, Piggott accepted an appointment as Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History at the University of Southern California. [1] [2]

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References

  1. "Joan Piggott". University of Southern California. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  2. "About the Programs". The Project for Premodern Japan Studies, University of Southern California. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  3. Reviews of Land, Power, and the Sacred include:
  4. Friday, Karl (2010). "Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira. Edited by Joan R. Piggott and Yoshida Sanae. Cornell University East Asia Program, 2009. 240 pages. Hardcover $52.00; softcover $31.00". Monumenta Nipponica. 65 (1): 200–202. doi:10.1353/mni.0.0122. JSTOR   40983186.
  5. Reviews of Capital and Countryside in Japan include:
    • Van Goethem, Ellen (August 2009). "Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 68 (3): 988–990. doi:10.1017/S0021911809990441. ProQuest   230392476.
    • Farris, William Wayne (2006). "Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English (review)". Monumenta Nipponica. 61 (3): 409–412. doi:10.1353/mni.2006.0028.
  6. Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (2004). "Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan, and: Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty (review)". China Review International. 11 (1): 15–21. doi:10.1353/cri.2005.0024.
  7. Reviews of The Emergence of Japanese Kingship include: