About
Since earning his Ph.D. in History & East Asian Languages from Harvard in 1976, Hoyt Tillman has taught Chinese history at Arizona State University and published extensively on the history of Confucianism.
After becoming ASU emeritus professor in 2019, Tillman was appointed the Zhu & Zhang Visiting Chair Professor by the Yuelu Academy at Hunan University. His research was recognized with a Humboldt Prize (Humboldt-Forschungspreis), and he has served as a visiting professor at LMU in Munich, as well as such institutions as Peking University, Renmin University of China, and Taiwan University.
Tillman has been a research affiliate of Peking University's Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History, quest researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of History & Philology, and advisory director of Hangzhou Normal University's International Song Research Center.