Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is the
recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in
undergraduate teaching, the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize,
the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, and the Star
Family Prize for Excellence in Advising. He is also a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, as well as the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity.
Affiliations
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University