Joan R. Piggott Explained

Joan R. Piggott
Nationality:	American
Education:	Stanford University (MA)
Occupation:	Historian

Joan R. Piggott (born 1947) is an American historian specializing in East Asian studies.

Education

Piggott completed a master of arts from Stanford University in 1972, followed by a doctorate from Stanford in 1987.

Career

Piggott began her academic career at the University of Miami, where she was an assistant professor of history from 1987 until 1989. Between 1989 and 1995, Piggott held an assistant professorship in history at Cornell University, where she was promoted to associate professor. In 2003, Piggott accepted an appointment as Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History at the University of Southern California.^{[1] [2]}

Selected publications

• Book: Goodwin . Janet R. . Piggott . Joan R. . Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan . 2018 . University of Hawaii Press . 9780824872939. ^[3]
• Book: Piggott . Joan R. . Yoshida . Sanae . Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira . 2008 . Cornell University Press . 9781933947105. ^[4]
• Book: Piggott . Joan R. . Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English . 2006 . Cornell University Press . 9781885445391. ^[5]
• Book: Ko . Dorothy . Haboush . JaHyun Kim . Piggott . Joan R. . Dorothy Ko . JaHyun Kim Haboush . Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan . 2003 . University of California Press . 9780520927827. ^[6]
• Book: Piggott . Joan R. . The Emergence of Japanese Kingship . 1997 . Stanford University Press . 9780804728324. ^[7]

Notes and References

1. News: Joan Piggott . 10 April 2022 . University of Southern California.
2. News: About the Programs . 10 April 2022 . The Project for Premodern Japan Studies, University of Southern California.
3. Reviews of Land, Power, and the Sacred include:
   • Spafford . David . Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott (review) . The Journal of Japanese Studies . 2020 . 46 . 2 . 455–459 . 10.1353/jjs.2020.0054.
   • Souyri . Pierre François . Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott (review) . Monumenta Nipponica . 2019 . 74 . 2 . 253–256 . 10.1353/mni.2019.0026.
   • Oxenboell . Morten . Book Review: Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan edited by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott . Journal of Medieval Worlds . 2019 . 1 . 3 . 119–124 . 10.1525/jmw.2019.130009. free .
4. Karl Friday . Friday . Karl . Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira. Edited by Joan R. Piggott and Yoshida Sanae. Cornell University East Asia Program, 2009. 240 pages. Hardcover $52.00; softcover $31.00. . Monumenta Nipponica . 2010 . 65 . 1 . 200–202 . 10.1353/mni.0.0122 . 40983186.
5. Reviews of Capital and Countryside in Japan include:
   • Van Goethem . Ellen . Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). . The Journal of Asian Studies . August 2009 . 68 . 3 . 988–990 . 10.1017/S0021911809990441 . .
   • Farris . William Wayne . Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English (review) . Monumenta Nipponica . 2006 . 61 . 3 . 409–412 . 10.1353/mni.2006.0028.
6. Lee . Lily Xiao Hong . Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan, and: Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty (review) . China Review International . 2004 . 11 . 1 . 15–21 . 10.1353/cri.2005.0024.
7. Reviews of The Emergence of Japanese Kingship include:
   • Aubin . Francoise . PIGGOTT (Joan R.), The Emergence of Japanese Kingship Stanford (Calif.), Stanford University Press, 1997, 434 p. (bibliogr., maps, tables, glossary with Chinese characters, index) . . 114 . 99 . 151 . 10.4000/assr.20935 . fr. free .
   • Batten . Bruce . The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 434 pp. $55.00. . The Journal of Asian Studies . May 1999 . 58 . 2 . 529–531 . 10.2307/2659454.
   • Friday . Karl . The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 424. $55 (cloth). . The Journal of World History . 1999 . 10 . 2 . 20078793.
   • Farris . William Wayne . The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 434. $55.00.) . The Historian . 1999 . 61 . 4 .
   • McCallum . Donald . The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott . Journal of East Asian Archaeology . 10.1163/156852303776173024.
   • Robert S. Ellwood . Ellwood . Robert S. . The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Joan R. Piggott . History of Religions . November 1999 . 39 . 2 . 205–208 . 10.1086/463589.