Morgan Pitelka

Associate Professor of Asian Studies (3252); Adjunct Associate Professor of History (3291)

New West 319
Campus Box 3267
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
919-843-7353 (phone)
919-843-7817 (fax)
mpitelka@unc.edu

B.A. Oberlin College, 1994
M.A. Princeton University
Ph.D. Princeton University, 2001

Research and Teaching Interests

I am an Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Department, affiliated with the History Department, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I teach Asian Studies courses in premodern Japanese history and culture, and advise graduate students in the History Department with interests in medieval and early modern Japan, material culture, and other issues in Asian history. I am also the Director of the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies, a collaboration of Duke University, North Carolina State University, and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Publications and Writing

Online:

• artificialia
• frog in a well / japan
• triangle center for japanese studies

Current research (in progress):

• writing a book titled sixteenth-century losers on the material culture, daily life, and destruction of ichijodani, a castle town active in japan's long sixteenth century
• writing a book titled the politics of time in seventeenth-century kyoto on the cultural practices and products of tea masters, aristocrats, and elite urban commoners in the imperial capital after the establishment of the tokugawa shogunate in edo

Web articles:

• morgan pitelka, "the three legged stool: a primer on planning, conducting, and writing major research projects" (pdf)
• morgan pitelka, "unearthing ceramic histories in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century japan: sources, themes, and methods" (html)
• morgan pitelka, "japanese ceramics terminology" (html)
• andrew maske, "takatori ceramics" (html)

CV

curriculum vitae

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