Résumé – C. Pierce Salguero, Ph.D.

2022–present, Professor of Asian History & Health Humanities, The Abington College of the Penn State University
2016–2022, Associate Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Abington College
2010–2016, Assistant Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Abington College
2013, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Religion Department, Duke University
2011-12, Regional Faculty Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
2009–10, Instructor, Depts. of History and Religious Studies, Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY)
2008–09, Visiting scholar, Dharma Drum Buddhist College and Academia Sinica Institute of History & Philology (Taiwan)
2007–08, Instructor, Expository Writing Program and Dept. of History of Science, Medicine, & Technology, Johns Hopkins University

2022–present, Program Chair for Health Humanities and minor in Bioethics & Medical Humanities.
2017–present, Program Chair for Multidisciplinary Studies, Integrative Arts, and minors in Asian Studies, Global Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies.
2016–present, Editor in Chief, Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
2013–present, Council Member, International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
2013–2015, Associate Editor, Asian Medicine
2013–14, Book Review Editor (East & Southeast Asia), Asian Medicine
2011–, Founder and organizer, Philadelphia Area Buddhist Studies Workgroup
2011–14, President, Oriental Club of Philadelphia (one of the oldest academic societies in the U.S., 1888-2017)

Ph.D., History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2010. Dissertation title: “Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China: Disease, Healing, and the Body in Crosscultural Translation (2nd to 8th Centuries C.E.).” [Dissertation Review; revised version published in 2014 by University of Pennsylvania Press]. Graduate fields: History of religion and medicine in China; history of religion and medicine in India; history of medicine in the West; Chinese history.
M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Virginia, 2005. Thesis title: “Thai Medicine Reconsidered: ‘Royal’ and ‘Rural’ Practitioners and the Struggle to Define a Tradition.” (Revised version published in 2007 by Hohm Press; 2nd edition 2015 White Lotus Press.)
B.A., University of Virginia, 1996. Majors: Anthropology, Cognitive Science. Minor: East Asian Studies.

2020, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Impact Award
2019, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Faculty Fellow
2018, Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
2017, Abington College Chief Ogontz Award (i.e., highest award given to faculty by student body)
2015, Abington College Diversity Award
2015, New Media Consortium Idea Lab Winner for interdisciplinary course on Visualization
2014, Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
2013, Duke University Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellowship

2020, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitational Fellowship
2019, Penn State University Teaching & Learning with Technology Faculty Fellow
2018, Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grant, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
2016, Abington College Faculty Senate Scholar Award (i.e., “Scholar of the Year”)
2014–17, Global Research Network Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (co-recipient of 3-year $230K research fellowship)
2011–12, Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Regional Faculty Fellowship
2009–10, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2009–10, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined)
2008–09, Fulbright IIE Taiwan
2008, Fulbright Critical Language Extension Award

2022: SOAS, University of Toronto, Bucknell University, SUNY Buffalo, NYU
2021: UC Santa Barbara, Oxford University
2020: Johns Hopkins University, Moravian College, Johns Hopkins Medical School
2019: Warburg Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Binghamton University, Huntington Library, California State University Bakersfield, University of Hawaii, University of Rochester, Utica College, University of Georgia
2018: National Museum of Thailand, University of Montréal, University of Heidelberg.
2017: University of Michigan, Dartmouth, Duke, University of Utah, Kyung Hee University, Leipzig University, Columbia University, Ottawa University, UPenn
2016: UCLA, Columbia, University of Toronto, Goucher College, Leipzig University, UPenn
2015: Georgetown, Harvard, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan
2014: Yale, Bowdoin, University of Miami, Southern Methodist University, University of Leeds, Washington University in St. Louis, Wonkwang University
2013: Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, UPenn, West Chester University, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
2012: University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, McMaster University, UPenn, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
2011 and earlier: Duke, West Chester University, Cornell, Won Institute of Graduate Studies, Academia Sinica