Joan R. Piggott

Summary

Joan R. Piggott (born 1947) is an American historian specializing in East Asian studies.

Education edit

Piggott completed a master of arts from Stanford University in 1972, followed by a doctorate from Stanford in 1987.

Career edit

Piggott began her academic career at the University of Miami, where she was an assistant professor of history from 1987 until 1989. Between 1989 and 1995, Piggott held an assistant professorship in history at Cornell University, where she was promoted to associate professor. In 2003, Piggott accepted an appointment as Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History at the University of Southern California.[1][2]

Selected publications edit

  • Goodwin, Janet R.; Piggott, Joan R., eds. (2018). Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824872939.[3]
  • Piggott, Joan R.; Yoshida, Sanae, eds. (2008). Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781933947105.[4]
  • Piggott, Joan R., ed. (2006). Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781885445391.[5]
  • Ko, Dorothy; Haboush, JaHyun Kim; Piggott, Joan R., eds. (2003). Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520927827.[6]
  • Piggott, Joan R. (1997). The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804728324.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Joan Piggott". University of Southern California. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  2. ^ "About the Programs". The Project for Premodern Japan Studies, University of Southern California. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  3. ^ Reviews of Land, Power, and the Sacred include:
    • Spafford, David (2020). "Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott (review)". The Journal of Japanese Studies. 46 (2): 455–459. doi:10.1353/jjs.2020.0054.
    • Souyri, Pierre François (2019). "Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott (review)". Monumenta Nipponica. 74 (2): 253–256. doi:10.1353/mni.2019.0026.
    • Oxenboell, Morten (2019). "Book Review: Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan edited by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott". Journal of Medieval Worlds. 1 (3): 119–124. doi:10.1525/jmw.2019.130009.
  4. ^ Friday, Karl (2010). "Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira. Edited by Joan R. Piggott and Yoshida Sanae. Cornell University East Asia Program, 2009. 240 pages. Hardcover $52.00; softcover $31.00". Monumenta Nipponica. 65 (1): 200–202. doi:10.1353/mni.0.0122. JSTOR 40983186.
  5. ^ Reviews of Capital and Countryside in Japan include:
    • Van Goethem, Ellen (August 2009). "Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 68 (3): 988–990. doi:10.1017/S0021911809990441. ProQuest 230392476.
    • Farris, William Wayne (2006). "Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English (review)". Monumenta Nipponica. 61 (3): 409–412. doi:10.1353/mni.2006.0028.
  6. ^ Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (2004). "Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan, and: Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty (review)". China Review International. 11 (1): 15–21. doi:10.1353/cri.2005.0024.
  7. ^ Reviews of The Emergence of Japanese Kingship include:
    • Aubin, Francoise. "PIGGOTT (Joan R.), The Emergence of Japanese Kingship Stanford (Calif.), Stanford University Press, 1997, 434 p. (bibliogr., maps, tables, glossary with Chinese characters, index)". Archives de sciences sociales des religions (in French). 114 (99): 151. doi:10.4000/assr.20935.
    • Batten, Bruce (May 1999). "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 434 pp. $55.00". The Journal of Asian Studies. 58 (2): 529–531. doi:10.2307/2659454.
    • Friday, Karl (1999). "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 424. $55 (cloth)". The Journal of World History. 10 (2). JSTOR 20078793.
    • Farris, William Wayne (1999). "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 434. $55.00.)". The Historian. 61 (4).
    • McCallum, Donald. "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott". Journal of East Asian Archaeology. doi:10.1163/156852303776173024.
    • Ellwood, Robert S. (November 1999). "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Joan R. Piggott". History of Religions. 39 (2): 205–208. doi:10.1086/463589.