Dr. William B. Noseworthy

History of Religion, Southeast Asia, Islam, Hinduism, Syncretism

Dr. William B. Noseworthy is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also held positions at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Carroll University. He completed his BA with a double major in History & Religion and a double minor in East Asian Studies & Jewish Studies at Oberlin College in 2007. In 2011 he received his MA in History of Southeast Asia from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he went on to finish his dissertation Khik Agama Cam: Caring for Cham Religions in Southeast Asia, 1651 – 1969 in December 2017.

In 2014, Dr. Noseworthy was a co-author with Sakaya et al. of the first Cham-Vietnamese-English dictionary to be published with Cham script in Vietnam [Tri Thuc Publishing House]. He has also authored several articles and book chapters including a recent article on Islamic Modernisms in twentieth-century Cambodia and Vietnam in SUVANNABHUMI (2017). His current research and teaching examines Hip Hop & Social Activism as a Global Phenomenon, Vietnamese Literature in Country & in Diaspora, the Politics of Populism & Protest in the 20th century, and the History of Asian Religions. At Goettingen, he will be working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Gods of the Soil: Religion & the State in the Gulf of Thailand Zone.

Details

University of Wisconsin-Madison – Department of History

Email
noseworthy@wisc.edu

Further details
history.wisc.edu