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Sep 07, 2011
David Schaberg appointed interim dean of humanities
Professor David Schaberg of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, has been appointed interim dean of the Division of Humanities by Chancellor Gene Block. A member of the faculty since 1996, he has served as chair of his department as well as co-director of the Center for Chinese Studies. He assumes the post from Professor Tim Stowell, dean of Humanities for five years, who returns to the faculty in the Department of Linguistics.
Schaberg has published articles on early Chinese literature, historiography and thought, and Greek/Chinese comparative issues. He is the author of "A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography," which was awarded the 2003 Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies. He is also a contributor to a new translation of China’s first great historical work, "The Zuo Tradition," to be published by the University of Washington Press. He earned his B.A. in Humanities Special Programs from Stanford University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Chinese, Greek, Latin) in 1996 from Harvard University.
