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Naran Bilik
Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology (2004-2009), Carleton College Naran Bilik received his early education in Inner Mongolia, and his M.A. in ethnology and Ph.D. in linguistics from the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing. After two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge University, between 1992 and 1994, he conducted fieldwork in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Yunnan. Naran is interested in semiotic approaches to ethnicity and politico-cultural boundaries. He teaches courses on language and culture, theory of race and ethnicity, anthropology of China/East Asia, and Ethnicity and race. He has worked as a consultant with the World Bank, and he has participated in many development projects and training programs in China. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on Race and Ethnicity. Naran first came to Carleton as Freeman Visiting Professor of Anthropology in 2001. He is the Visiting Bernstein Chair of Anthropology and East Asian Studies from 2003. His books include: China's Minority on the Move (Co-edited with Robyn Iredale et al.), Armonk, New York & London: Sharpe, 2003; Contemporary Minority Migration, Education, and Ethnicity in China (Coauthored with Robyn Iredale et al.). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001; Key Terms in Anthropology (in Chinese, releixue guanjianci, with Ye Shuxian and Peng Zhaorong), Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004; New Configuration of Anthropological Theories in China (in Chinese, renleixue lilunde xin geju, coauthored with Wang Mingming et al.), Beijing: Social Science and Literature Press, 2001; Personal Names (in Chinese, xingming), Beijing: Central University of Nationalities Press, 2000; Contemporary Construction of Ethnicity (in Chinese, xiandai beijingxia de zuqun jiangou), Kunming: Yunnan Education Press, 2000; On Personal Names (in Chinese, xingming lun), Beijing:Social Science and Literature Press, 1997. He has published over one hundred articles and translations in English and Chinese.
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