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1 JOHN D. PHAN, PH.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Asian Languages & Culture Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 337 Scott Hall 43 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ ! EDUCATION : Ph.D. East & Southeast Asian Language History Cornell University: Department of Asian Studies Principle Advisor: Committee Members: Keith W. Taylor, Ph.D. John B. Whitman, Ph.D. Ding Xiang Warner, Ph.D. Bruce Rusk, Ph.D.! Dissertation: Lacquered Words: The Evolution of Vietnamese under Sinitic Influences from the 1 st Century BCE through the 17 th Century CE : M.A. Ming-Qing Vernacular Literature Columbia University: East Asian Languages & Cultures Principle Advisor: Shang Wei, Ph.D.! Master s Thesis: Plot & Narrative Propulsion in the Short Stories of Li Yu : B.A. Asian Studies, Ancient Studies, Religion Saint Olaf College Principle Advisor: Edmund Santurri, Ph.D.! Graduated Cum laude! Member of Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honor Society 1

2 PUBLICATIONS (Under Review) Crisis in the Cosmopolitan: A Vietnamese Attempt to Create a Non-Latin Alphabet. 2013: Rebooting the Vernacular in 17 th Century Vietnam. In Benjamin Elman (editor), Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, (pp ). Leiden: Brill. 2013: Chữ Nôm and the Taming of the South: A Bilingual Defense for Vernacular Writing in the Chỉ Nam Ngọc Âm Giải Nghĩa. The Journal of Vietnamese Studies, volume 8, no. 1, pp : Muong is not a Subgroup: Phonological Evidence for a Paraphyletic Taxon in the Viet-Muong Subfamily. Mon-Khmer Studies, no. 40, pp : Re-imagining Annam: A preliminary look at the languages of the northern Vietnamese plains at the turn of the 1st Millennium. China Southern Diaspora Studies, volume 4, pp : The Ming Records: An Account of Annam (partial translation). In The Ming History English Translation Project, University of California, San Diego. GUEST LECTURES & WORKSHOPS March, 2014: December, 2013: -Vietnam National University (Hanoi), Dept. of Linguistics -Guest Lecturer: Giới thiệu kỹ thuật dùng Googlemaps Engine để vẽ bản đồ ngôn ngữ học: Một cách phân tích ngôn ngữ học điạ lý ( Introducing techniques for using Googlemaps Engine to draw linguistic maps: A method of geolinguistic analysis ) -Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Science Dialogue Program & Saga Prefecture Chienkan High School -Guest Lecturer: Using Linguistics to Unlock the Past 古代の文明を解明する言語学への招待 2

3 February, 2013: September, 2011: April 2011: -MICA International Institute & the Hanoi University of Science & Technology -Guest Lecturer: Essential Principles of Historical Linguistics: the Case of Late Sino-Vietnamese -Cornell University: Rice & Language seminar series, Prof. Magnus Fiskesjo -Guest Lecturer: Historical Linguistics in East and Southeast Asia -Cornell University: Introduction to China, Prof. Bruce Rusk -Guest Lecturer: Sex, Money, and Kung Fu in the Ming Dynasty: Understanding Early Chinese Vernacular Fiction April 2010: -Vietnam National University, Hanoi: Department of Linguistics -Guest Workshop: Praat: Giới thiệu phần mềm phân tích ngữ âm học ( An introduction to Praat: software for phonetics analysis ) CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA June, 2013: June, 2013: July 2012: -Waseda University, University of British Columbia & the Academy of Korean Studies: Accessing the Cosmopolitan Code in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Evidence from Mokkan to the 20 th Century -Invited speaker: A Typology of Errors: Phonetic Glossing in a 17 th Century Sino-Vietnamese Dictionary -Southeast Asia Linguistics Society, Annual Meeting -Paper presenter: Initial Devoicing & Checked Syllables in Tonogenesis: The case of Mường Chỏi (a language of Northern Vietnam) -University of British Columbia: Dept. of Asian Studies & the Academy of Korean Studies: Thinking about Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Sinographic Cosmopolis -Invited speaker: Augmenting the Cosmopolitan in the Two Prefaces of the Chỉ Nam Ngọc Âm Giải Nghĩa 3

4 June 2012: April 2012: -Cornell University: Dept. of Asian Studies & Einaudi Center for International Studies Voices from the South: New Testimonies from the Last Leaders of South Vietnam -Organizer -Cornell University: East Asia Program Workshop Re-envisioning Migration: the Past & the Present -Invited speaker: Understanding Annamese: A Phonological Typology of Sino-Vietnamese November : -Princeton University: PIIRS-EAS 3-Year Research Cluster Languages, Vernaculars, Literacies -Invited participant -Presenter: Scriptural Domestication in an Early Modern Sino-Vietnamese Dictionary September 2011: July 2011: -Cornell University: Rice & Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement & Social Change -Member of the organizing committee -( -20 th International Conference on Historical Linguistics -Panel organizer: Re-Examining Tree-based Models of Evolution: Issues of Areal Diffusion and Convergence in Dialectal Continua -Paper presenter: Muong is not a Subgroup: Phonological Evidence for a Paraphyletic Taxon in the Viet-Muong subfamily -Kyoto Research Institute for Humanity & Nature with the Tokyo Linguistic Circle for the Study of Eastern Eurasian Languages: Meeting on Austroasiatic & Austronesian Linguistics -Invited speaker: Muong is not a Subgroup: Stop onset Diversity Across Four Muong Varieties March 2011: March 2011: January, 2011: -Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Brownbag Series -Brownbag speaker: Redefining the Muong: Vietnamese mutation and expansion in a Post-Tang Annam -Cornell East Asia Program Anniversary Symposium -Paper presenter: Defending Chu Nom: Arguments for a New Classical Script in the Chỉ Nam Ngọc Âm Giải Nghĩa -Linguistic Society of America: Annual Meeting 4

5 -Poster presenter: Muong is not a Subgroup July 2010: December 2009: November, 2009: February, 2009: January 2009: October, 2009: Sept., 2008: -Australia National University special workshop: China, Vietnam, and the Chinese in Vietnam -Paper presenter: Re-imagining Annam: A preliminary look at the languages of the northern Vietnamese plains at the turn of the 1st Millennium -Cornell Linguistics Student Conference -Paper presenter: Sino-Vietnamese Evidence for a Regional Dialect of Middle Chinese -Cornell East Asia Colloquium: -Lecture: Rediscovering the Annamese -Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium -Presenter: The Preface to Textual Explications of the Classics and Canons, Jingdian shiwen -Linguistic Society of America: Annual Meeting -Paper presenter: Sino-Vietnamese Evidence for a Regional Dialect of Middle Chinese (chose not to attend) -14 th Annual Southeast Asia Program Student Conference -Paper presenter: Rediscovering the Annamese: Linguistic Evidence for a Chinese Speaking Red River Delta at the end of the 1 st Millennium C.E. -41 st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages & Literature -Paper presenter: Palatal Affricates and an Annamese Dialect of Middle Chinese April, 2008: May, 2007: Feb., 2007: Feb., 2005: -Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium -Presenter: The Early-Ming Mongolian Chinese Glossary, Huayi Yiyu -Cornell Department of Asian Studies -Presentation: Minor Syllable Loss as a Basis for Subgrouping in Vietic -UC Berkeley Graduate Conference on Vietnamese Studies -Paper presenter: Sinicization & Syllable Structure in Vietnamese -15 th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia (Columbia 5

6 University) -Paper presenter: Literary Bones: A look at script in the fashioning of a Vietnamese Vernacular Tradition FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, GRANTS 2013: -Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation Younger Scholar Award : -Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow o Currently conducting linguistic and literary research on the languages & cultures of Northern Vietnam o Sponsored by the Department of Crosslinguistic Studies, at the National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics (NINJAL) 2011: -John Ulrich Wolff Dissertation Write-up Grant, awarded by Cornell University s Southeast Asia Program : -Einaudi Center Short-Term Research Travel Grant, with support from the East Asia Program and Southeast Asia Program: o 2011, Research on the manuscript of the Annam dịch ngữ (an early-modern Sino-Vietnamese dictionary) held in Tokyo, Japan. o 2010, 3-week research on Xiang dialect, China o 2007, Research on the reception of the Annam dịch ngữ in Hanoi, Vietnam : -Cornell University Sage Fellowship (5 year package) : -Cornell Graduate Student Conference Grants o 2011, awarded for the 20 th International Conference on Historical Linguistics o 2010, awarded for the special workshop: China, Vietnam, and the Chinese in Vietnam (ANU, Canberra, Australia) o 2008, awarded for 41 st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics & Languages (London, UK) o 2007, awarded for Berkeley Conference on Vietnamese Studies (Berkeley, CA) o 2006, (declined) awarded for University of Hawaii Conference on the Humanities (Honolulu, HA) 6

7 : -Cornell Southeast Asia Program Grants o 2011, awarded for the 20 th International Conference on Historical Linguistics o 2010, awarded for the special workshop: China, Vietnam, and the Chinese in Vietnam (ANU, Canberra, Australia) o 2008, (Conference Grant) awarded for 41 st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics & Languages (London, UK) o 2007, (Travel Grant) awarded for short-term research in Hanoi, Vietnam o 2007, (Conference Grant) awarded for Berkeley Conference on Vietnamese Studies (Berkeley, CA) o 2006 (Conference Grant, declined) awarded for University of Hawaii Conference on the Humanities (Honolulu, HA) : -Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grants o FLAS Full Academic Year Language Study Grant for Vietnamese language & Linguistics o 2007, FLAS summer award for Intermediate Khmer under the SEASSI Program o , FLAS Full Academic Year Language Study Grant for Intermediate Japanese at Cornell University o 2006, FLAS summer award for Beginning Japanese under the Falcon Program o , FLAS Full Academic Year Language Study Grant for Beginning Khmer at Cornell University o 2002, FLAS summer award for Advanced Vietnamese under the SEASSI Program 2002: -IIE Fulbright Research Fellowship to Vietnam o Researched the extinct, demotic script of Vietnamese called Chữ Nôm o Awarded a six month extension to the grant period. 2002: -Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation Nôm study grant 7

8 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015 (spring): -History of Writing in a Cosmopolitan East Asia (Rutgers University) -History of Chinese Literature: 1300 to 1900 (Rutgers University) Both graduate M.A. and undergradate levels taught -Classical Chinese II (Rutgers University) 2014 (fall): -History of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1300 (Rutgers University) Both graduate M.A. and undergradate levels taught -Language, Thought, & Expression in the Construction of East Asia (Rutgers University) -Chinese 101 (Rutgers University) 2012: -First-year Writing Seminar Instructor: The Evolution of Writing Systems in Cosmopolitan East Asia (Cornell University) 2012: -First-year Writing Seminar Instructor: Love, Poverty & Revolution in Vietnamese Literature (Cornell University) 2011: -Teaching Assistant: Introduction to China (Cornell University) 2010: -Grader and Content Assistant: Introduction to Southeast Asia (Cornell University) 2009: -Teaching Assistant: Meditation in Indian Culture (Cornell University) 2008: -Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Asian Religions (Cornell University) LANGUAGES Native: English Strong: Vietnamese, Mandarin 8

9 Proficient: French, Japanese Intermediate: Cambodian, Cantonese Literary languages: -Dead Scripts: Classical & Literary Sinitic Chữ Nôm NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2009: -Freelance Editor: Duane Morris Vietnam, LLC Hanoi, Vietnam Edited legal reports for style and grammar 2004: -Legal Assistant: Coyne, Niess, Schultz, Becker & Bauer, S.C. Madison, WI Transcribed dictation Photocopied and collated records Assembled and posted mail : -Entertainment Editor, City Weekend Magazine Shanghai, P.R.C. Assigned stories to freelance journalists Compiled and edited the Shanghai bi-weekly edition Reported for the national edition on a monthly basis Represented the Shanghai office at all public affairs events 9

Curriculum Vita. Huiying Wei Hill, Ph. D. September 2016

Curriculum Vita. Huiying Wei Hill, Ph. D. September 2016 Curriculum Vita Huiying Wei Hill, Ph. D. September 2016 PERSONAL INFORMATION: Professor Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology Weber State University Ogden, UT 84408-1208 (801) 626-7888 (work) hweiarthus@weber.edu