Name: | Dr. Paul R. Katz 康豹 | |
Home Institiution: | Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | |
Duration of Stay: | Dec. 3 - 9, 2015 |
Paul R. Katz received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Princeton. After teaching at different universities in Taiwan from 1991 to 2002, he joined Academia Sinica’s Institute of Modern History in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed as Program Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He is currently serves as Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History. His research centers on modern Chinese religious life, with his most recent monograph (Religion in China and its Modern Fate) published in 2014. At present, he is working on the interaction between Han and non-Han religious traditions in Southwest China.