Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion. He holds a joint appointment in the EALC and Anthropology departments. He is also a non-resident long-term fellow for programs in anthropological and historical sciences and the languages and civilizations of East Asia at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. Puett joined the Harvard faculty in 1994 after earning his M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1994) from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Areas of Expertise:
Early Chinese history
Classical Chinese ritual, social, and political theory
Inter-relations between religion, anthropology, history, and philosophy
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