Willock, N.

Full Name

Nicole Willock

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Affiliation

DU - University of Denver, Colorado Post-Doctoral Lecturer

Sturm Hall 382

303-871-2050

nwillock@gmail.com

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington

PhD Student of Elliot Sperling

Other Information

Background:

Nicole Willock has two Ph.Ds. from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. One doctorate is in Religious Studies; the other is in Tibetan Studies within the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Dr. Willock is a three-year postdoctoral fellow at the University of Denver.

Professor Willock currently teaches the following courses: Religions of Tibet; Buddhism in the USA: Local and Global Perspectives; and Politics and Religion in Modern China.

Her research explores the complex relationships between state-driven secularization, religious practice and ethnic identity in 20th century China, especially focusing on the lives and works of Tibetan monastic scholars in China. Her most recent publication is a book review of “Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958 by Paul Nietupski,” in the Journal of Asian Studies. She is currently working on revising the manuscript, “A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China,” for publication. Her dissertation has been reviewed by Dr. Nancy Lin (Dartmouth College) on the Dissertation Reviews website.

Dr. Willock is a select participant in the five-year “Tibet and Literary Seminar” in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual meetings and serves on the AAR steering committee for the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group. She also serves as chair of the AAS Tibet Society and a consultant for Treasury of Lives Advisory Committee. Source (Accessed June 13, 2012)

Honors and Awards

• Fall 2006 through Fall 2007. Assistant Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies.
• Spring 2007. Teaching Opportunity Grant funded by the Inner Asian Uralic National Resource Center and the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Taught “Constructing Culture: Imagining Tibet”--a course on the globalization of Tibetan Culture to undergraduate and graduate students.
• 2005-2006. Recipient of the Fellowship for Language Area Studies (FLAS) for study of Tibetan during the academic year
• Summer 2005. Recipient of Indiana University’s Pre-dissertation Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs and the Office of Research and University Graduate school.
• Summer 2005. Awarded grant from the University of Minnesota for an on-line learning module called “A Week in Rebkong”. Teaches Amdo dialect to students familiar with Lhasa dialect.
• 2004-2005. Recipient of the FLAS for study of Tibetan during the academic year.
• Summer 2004. Recipient of the FLAS for two month Tibetan language program at Tibet University, Lhasa. Recipient of Indiana University’s International Summer Enhancement Grant.
• 2003-2004. Recipient of the FLAS for study of Tibetan during the academic year.
• Summer 2003. Recipient of the FLAS for a two month Tibetan language program in Boudha, Nepal. Recipient of Indiana University’s International Summer Enhancement Grant.
• 2002-2003: Received Indiana University’s Recruitment Fellowship.