Peter Park

Ph.D. - History
University of California, Los Angeles - 2005

M. A. - History
University of California, Los Angeles - 1999

B.A. - Liberal Arts
Hampshire College - 1995

"Leibniz and Wolff on China." In Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century, edited by Joanne Miyang Cho and David Crowe, 21-37. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014 - Publication

Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830 (SUNY Series Philosophy and Race). Albany: State University of New York Press.  2013 - Publication

"The Exclusion of Asia and Africa from the History of Philosophy: Is Kant Responsible?" In Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy, edited by Stephen R. Palmquist, 777-790. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.  2010 - Publication

"Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy." In The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin, edited by Jeremy D. Popkin, 39-56. Dordrecht: Springer. 2008 - Publication

Popkin, Richard H. Disputing Christianity: The 400-year-old Debate over Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Troki's Classic Arguments, edited by Jeremy D. Popkin, Peter K. J. Park, and Knox Peden. New York: Humanity Books. 2007 - Publication

"Return to Enlightenment: Franz Bopp's Reformation of Comparative Grammar." In The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context, edited by David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund, 61-83. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2006 - Publication

McGetchin, Douglas T., Peter K. J. Park, and D. R. SarDesai, eds. Sanskrit and 'Orientalism': Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958. New Delhi: Manohar. 2004 - Publication

"A Catholic Apologist in a Pantheistic World: New Approaches to Friedrich Schlegel." In Sanskrit and 'Orientalism': Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958, edited by Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K. J. Park, and D. R. SarDesai, 83-106. New Delhi: Manohar.  2004 - Publication

Associate Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2013–Present]
Arts & Humanities

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2007–2013]
Arts & Humanities

Visiting Scholar
University of California, Los Angeles [2006–2007]
Humanities

Visiting Assistant Professor
Loyola Marymount University [2005–2006]
Liberal Arts

Teaching Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles [2002–2003]
Social Sciences

Teaching Associate
University of California, Los Angeles [1999–2000]
Social Sciences

Teaching Assistant
University of California, Los Angeles [1998–1999]
Social Sciences

Visiting Faculty Member
Bogazici/Bosphorus University [0–2014]
Arts & Sciences

Visiting Scholar
San Francisco State University [0–2014]
Ethnic Studies

The Exclusion of Asia from the History of Philosophy: Is Kant Responsible?

2009–2009 presented at the international conference, Kant in Asia: The Unity of Human Personhood, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, May 20-23, 2009.

India and the Rise of the Comparative-Historical Sciences

2001–2001 presented on the panel, Historical Interpretations of Indological Science, German Culture and Society, 1808-1914, organized by Peter Park and Indra Sengupta, at the Second International Convention of Asia Scholars, Free University, Berlin, Aug. 9-12, 2001.

The Theological and Political Stakes of Bopp's Theory of Language

2003–2003 presented on the panel, Cultural Politics of Language Study in Nineteenth-Century Europe, at the American Historical Association 117th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Jan. 2-5, 2003.

The Kantian School and the Consolidation of Modern Historiography of Philosophy

2003–2003 presented at the conference, Seventh Annual University of California Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe, the University of California, Los Angeles, March 1-2, 2003.

Enlightenment against China: Cornelius de Pauw's Natural History of the Chinese

2012–2012 presented at the conference Reading China during the German Enlightenment, Penn State University, Feb. 24-25, 2012

Professional recognitions and honors (study, teaching, research, service)

• Arturo Alfonso Schomberg (Four-Year) Scholarship, Sept. 1991 - May 1995, Hampshire College
• Graduate Division Project 88 Fellowship, 1997-1998, University of California, Los Angeles
• Graduate Division Project 88 Fellowship, 2001-2002, University of California, Los Angeles
• Diversity Service Award, 2012, presented by the Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement, University of Texas at Dallas

Professional memberships

• American Historical Association, 2003 - present
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007 - present
• American Philosophical Association, 2012 - present

External funding for original investigations

Research fellowships awarded/sponsored projects

• “Indology and Comparative Philology in Germany: The Case of Friedrich Schlegel,” Dissertation Research Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service, Germany, Oct. 2000 - July 2001
• “The Exclusion of Asia from the Formation of a Modern Canon of Philosophy (dissertation revision),” Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2 years), Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Chicago, submitted November 2007, awarded (declined)
• “The pantheism controversy between Tholuck and Hegel,” Fritz Thyssen Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and Francke Foundations, Germany, Aug. 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009
• "The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Scientific Racism," Herzog Ernst Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Research Centre for Social and Cultural Studies in Gotha (Erfurt University), Germany, June-Aug. 2010

Prof to Pursue Research in Germany on Fellowship

UT Dallas Arts & Humanities Assistant Professor Peter K.J. Park has received a fellowship from the Francke Foundations and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Germany. He will spend three months pursuing library and archival research in the city of Halle an der Saale.“I am honored to be recognized by such an established and prestigious research-fellowship-granting body,” said Park. Park received his Ph.D. and his M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his B.A. from Hampshire College. He specializes in early modern Europe, the Enlightenment, German intellectual history, Orientalism, the history of philosophy and comparative philosophy.He has written chapters for three books, edited two books and reviewed two scholarly monographs. Park has tentatively planned his fellowship for late 2009. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation was the first private foundation dedicated to the support of scholarship and research to be established after World War II in the Federal Republic of Germany, and has its office in Cologne. The Francke Foundations are a center for research into Pietism, the Enlightenment, and the history of institutions, particularly those of the 18th century.