University of Minnesota
Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
chgs@umn.edu
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Ann Waltner

612-626-5149
Department of History 912 HellerH

Specialties

  • ritual
  • law
  • religion
  • traditional Chinese social history
  • law
  • gender
  • analysis of historical documentation
  • rumor
  • gossip
  • chinese history
  • world history
  • feminism

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley, none.

Publications

  • Writing her Way out of Trouble: Li Yuying in History and Fiction.. Waltner, Ann Beth, 1997.
  • The World of a Late Ming Mystic: T'an-Yang-Tzu and her Followers. Waltner, Ann Beth, University of California Press, 2000.
  • Lingering Fragrance: The Poetry of Tu Yaosi and Shen Tiansun.. Waltner, Ann Beth, Pi-ching Hsu, 1997.

Research Activities

  • Religion and kinship in late Ming dynasty China: the Story of Tanyangzi
  • Spatial impropriety and other transgressions in Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life
  • The fifteenth century explorer Zheng He in American classrooms
  • Family scandal and political crisis in the domestic life of the sixteenth-century literatus Wang Shizhen, as shown in eulogies and letters

Professional Activities

  • Member, MacArthur Program Steering Committee: 1988 - 1997
  • Associate Chair, History Department, University of Minnesota: 2002 - present
  • Associate Dean for Academic Programs: 1997 - 2000
  • Editor, Jounal of Asian Studies: 2000
  • Co-chair, Program Committee, American Historical Association: 1996 - 1997
  • Member, Program Committee, American Historical Association: 1995 - 1996
  • Member of the Board, Association for Asian Studies: 2000 - present
  • Chair, Levenson Prize Committee: 1995 - 1996
  • Chair, CLA Committee on Curriculum, Instruction and Advising: 1996 - 1997
  • Member, University Senate: 2000 - 2001
  • Member, Levenson Prize Committee: 1994 - 1996
  • Member, Executive Faculty, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota: 2001 - present

Awards

  • Graduate School Grant-in-Aid, 2001 - 2002
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2002
  • Graduate School Grant-in-Aid, 1990 - 1995
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2001
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986 - 1987

Courses Taught

  • All 5920 - Topics in Asian Culture
  • Hist 5940 - Topics in Modern Chinese History
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