Don Wyatt is chair of the history department and professor of history at Middlebury College. He joined the faculty in 1986 and teaches courses in Chinese Philosophy, Confucius and Confucianism, Imperial China, Modern China, Early East Asia, Modern East Asia, and Human Nature.
Wyatt specializes in the history and philosophy of China, from early through modern. He is the author of two forthcoming books, “The Blacks of Premodern China” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and “Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Wyatt graduated from Beloit College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.