Office Hours:
Office: Axinn 343.
Hours: Wednesday 10:30 - 11:30; Thursday 3:00 - 4:30.

Don Wyatt
Professor of History
Axinn Center at Starr Library 343
Phone: 802.443.5548
Email: wyatt@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: since 1986
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Beloit College;
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

The History and Philosophy of China; Philosophy of History

Courses Taught


Chinese Philosophy; Confucius and Confucianism; Readings in the Philosophy of History; Imperial China; Modern China; Early East Asia; Modern East Asia; Human Nature.


Books and Chapters

The Blacks of Premodern China. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2009.

"Unsung Men of War: Acculturated Embodiments of the Martial Ethos in the Song Dynasty." In Military Culture in Imperial China, ed. Nicola Di Cosmo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History [co-edited with Nicola Di Cosmo]. London: RoutledgeCurzon, Taylor & Francis Books, 2003.

The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the Moral Evolution of Early Sung Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.