• PHD East Asian Studies, Princeton University 2001
World Area Of Focus:
• Asia Less than 10% • East Asia 75%-99%
Languages:
• Chinese, Mandarin (limited working proficiency) • French (limited working proficiency) • Japanese (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Premodern history of Japan, tea culture in Japan, East Asian ceramics, material culture, history of the samurai
Relevant Experience:
• Asia (<10%), East Asia (75%-100%)
Distinctions:
• 2017-2017 Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC • 2016-2016 Book Prize, Southeastern Conference of the Association of Asian Studies • 2011-2012 National Humanities Center • 2008-2010 Associate-in-Research, East Asian Studies Center, USC • 2007-2008 NEH
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
27
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ASIA 150 Asia, an Introduction • JAPN 231 Premodern Japanese History and Culture • JAPN 363 History and Historiography of Japan's Long Sixteenth Century • JAPN 451 Exploring Japanese Material Culture
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Form and Function: Tea Bowls and the Problem of Zen in Chanoyu,” in Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine, ed., Zen and Material Culture. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• 2017 “Chinese Ceramics and Warrior Sociability in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” in Dora Ching, Louise Cort, and Andrew Watsky, ed., Chigusa in Context: In and Around Chanoyu in Sixteenth-Century Japan. Princeton University Press, 2017.
• 2016 Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2016.
• 2015 Morgan Pitelka. “Warriors, Tea, and Art in Premodern Japan.” Samurai: Beyond the Sword. Ed. Birgitta Augustin. Detroit Institute of Arts, 2014.
• 2010 “A Raku Wastewater Container and the Problem of Monolithic Sincerity.” Impressions 30 (2008). In Japanese translation: “Raku no kensui to ichimaiwateki seijitsusei no mondaiten.” Bijutsu Forum 21 (2010).
• 2009 “The Empire of Things: Tokugawa Ieyasu''s Material Legacy.” Japanese Studies (May, 2009).
• 2007 What''s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context. Co-editor with Jan Mrazek. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai''i Press, 2007.
• 2005 Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai''i Press, 2005.
• 2003 Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice. Editor. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
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