Don Wyatt

Don Wyatt is the John M. McCardell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Middlebury College. Having joined the faculty in 1986, he teaches both Chinese history and philosophy. His ongoing research includes the histories of traditional intellectualism, violence, and slavery. His recent scholarship includes the chapter essay “The Image of the Black in Chinese Art” in The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (Belknap/Harvard University Press and Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, 2017). Forthcoming contributions will appear in the Dao Companion to Zhu Xi’s Philosophy, the medieval volumes of the Cambridge World History of Violence and the Cambridge World History of Slavery, and the Bloomsbury Academic volume A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Pre-Modern Era (500-1450). His projects-in-progress include a book-length study of the history of foreign slaves in imperial China.