Professor of History Thomas Wilson has been selected as a consultant for Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) program. This initiative explores new curricular approaches to integrating East Asia in American undergraduate education. Wilson is the chair of Hamilton's Program in Asian Studies.
Wilson was selected from among more than 70 applicants as one of the 15 faculty consultants for ExEAS program for the 2002-2003 academic year. As a faculty consultant Wilson is a participant in the activities of the ExEAS teaching collaborative. The collaborative includes the 15 faculty participants, five to six Columbia University and Barnard College faculty members, four ExEAS postdoctoral fellows, and the ExEAS Senior Scholar.
Wilson, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989, earned a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He also studied in Taiwan, at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (or Stanford Center), and in the graduate department of history at the National Taiwan University. He returned to Taiwan in 1984 on a Department of Education Fulbright-Hays scholarship to conduct research for his dissertation. Wilson has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and Summer Stipend. He has written extensively on Confucian orthodoxy and is a board member of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions. Wilson is the author of a forthcoming book, On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius, to which he also is a contributing writer.
