EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
PAUL W. KROLL
University of Colorado
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GARY M. BECKMAN
University of Michigan
STEPHANIE JAMISON
University of California Los Angeles
PERI BEARMAN
Harvard Law School
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Recent Issues)
Table of Contents of JAOS 116 (1996)
Table of Contents of JAOS 117 (1997)
Table of Contents of JAOS 118:1 (Jan-Mar, 1998)
Table of Contents of JAOS 118:2 (Apr-June, 1998)
Table of Contents of JAOS 118:3 (July-September,
1998)
Table of Contents of JAOS 118:4 (October-December,
1998)
Table of Contents of JAOS 119:1 (January-March,
1999)
Table of Contents of JAOS 119:2 (April-June, 1999)
Table of Contents of JAOS 119:3 (July-September,
1999)
Table of Contents of JAOS 119:4 (October-December,
1999)
Table of Contents of JAOS 120:1 (January-March,
2000)
Table of Contents of JAOS 120:2 (April-June, 2000)
Table of Contents of JAOS 120:3 (July-Sept, 2000)
Table of Contents of JAOS 120:4 (October-December,
2000) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 16 April 2001)
Table of Contents of JAOS 121:1 (January-March,
2001) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 18 June 2001)
Table of Contents of JAOS 121:2 (April-June, 2001)
(Mailed to members and subscribers week of 16 July 2001)
Table of Contents of JAOS 121:3 (July-September,
2001) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 24 September 2001)
Table of Contents of JAOS 121:4 (October-December, 2001) (Mailed to members
and subscribers week of 17 February 2002)
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Table of Contents of JAOS 122:1 (January-March,
2002) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 16 September 2002)
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(Mailed to members and subscribers week of 16 September 2002)
Table of Contents of JAOS 122:3 (July-September,
2002) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 3 March 2003)
Table of Contents of JAOS 122:4 (October-December
2002) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 18 August 2003)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 123:1 (January-March
2003) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 24 November 2003)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 123:2 (April-June
2003) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 14 March 2004)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 123:3 (July-September
2003) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 28 June 2004)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 123:4 (October-December 2003) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 21 November 2004)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 124:1 (January-March
2004) (Mailed to members and subscribers week of 28 March 2005)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 124:2 (April-June 2004) (Mailed to members and subscribers during the week of 7 August 2005)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 124:3 (July-September 2004) (Mailed to members and subscribers during the week of 23 January 2006)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 124:4 (October-December 2004) (Mailed to members and subscribers during the week of 15 May 2006)
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• Table of Contents of JAOS 125:4 (October-December 2005) (Mailed to members and subscribers during the week of 24 June 2007)
• Table of Contents of JAOS 126:1 (Jan-Mar 2006) (Mailed to members and subscribers during the week of 18 November 2007)
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President
JERROLD COOPER
1608 McGee Ave., Berkeley, CA 94703 USA
Vice-President
STEPHANIE JAMISON
Dept. of Asian Languages & Cultures, 290 Royce Hall, Box 951540, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540 USA
Secretary-Treasurer
Hatcher Graduate
Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml 48109-1205 USA
Editor-in-Chief
(East Asia)
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado,
Campus Box 279, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
Sectional Editors
(Ancient Near East)
Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, 4111 Thayer Building, 202 S Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
(Traditional
India, South Asia)
Dept. of Asian Languages & Cultures, 290 Royce Hall, Box 951540,
University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540 USA
(Islam)
Harvard Law School,
125 Mount Auburn St., Room 344,
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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Board of Directors
JERROLD COOPER, President; SIDNEY GRIFFITH, Immediate Past President; STEPHANIE JAMISON, Vice-President; JONATHAN RODGERS, Secretary-Treasurer;
PAUL W. KROLL, Editor-in-Chief; Directors-at-Large: DAVID BRANNER (2009), JOEL BRERETON (2010), HARRY A. HOFFNER (2009); K. LAWSON YOUNGER,
President, Middle West Branch; JOEL BRERETON, President, Southwest
Branch; ROBERT JOE CUTTER, President, Western Branch; Sectional
Chairs: GONZALO RUBIO (Ancient Near East, 2009), DAVID PRAGER BRANNER (East Asia, 2011), DEVIN DEWEESE (Inner Asia, 2009); SHAWKAT TOORAWA (Islamic Near East, 2011), JASON NEELIS (South and Southeast Asia, 2009; Program Chair, 2009)
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies
PAUL W. KROLL, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado,
Campus Box 279, Boulder, CO 80309 USA (2012)
Delegate to the International Association for Sanskrit Studies
JOEL BRERETON, Dept. of Asian Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin, WCH 4.134, Mail Code G9300, Austin TX 78712-1194
Delegate to the International Union of Orientalists
DENIS SINOR, Dept. of Central Eurasian Studies, Goodbody Hall 157, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Delegate to the Lidzbarski Prize Committee
WOLFHART HEINRICHS, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University, 6 Divinity St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Representative to the Board of the American Schools of Oriental Research
PETER MACHINIST, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University, 6 Divinity St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Committee on Nominations
JAMES L FITZGERALD (2009, Chair), Department of Classics, Brown University, MacFarlane House,
48 College St., Providence, RI 02912; WADAD KADI (2010), The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th St., Chicago IL 60637; ANNA SHIELDS (2009), East Asian Studies Department, 211 Jones Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; CHRISTIAN WEDEMEYER (2010), The University of Chicago Divinity School 1025 East 58th St., Chicago IL 60637; CHRISTOPHER E. WOODS (2010), The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th St., Chicago IL 60637
Librarian
ALICE PROCHASKA, University Librarian, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale Station,
New Haven, CT 06520
OFFICERS OF THE MIDDLE WEST BRANCH, 2006-2007
President
K. LAWSON YOUNGER, Trinity International University, 2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015
Vice-President
WAYNE T. PITARD, Program for the Study of Religion, 3080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-160,
707 South Matthews, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
Secretary-Treasurer
JOANN SCURLOCK, Dept. of History, Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-3296
Executive Committee
WOLFGANG M. W. ROTH,
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; KEITH SCHOVILLE, University
of Wisconsin; RONALD A. VEENKER, Western Kentucky University;
GORDON YOUNG, Purdue University
OFFICERS OF THE SOUTHWEST BRANCH, 2006-2007
President
JOEL BRERETON, Dept. of Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, WCH 4.134, Mail Code G9300, Austin TX 78712-1194
Vice-President
STEPHEN H. PHILLIPS, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
Secretary-Treasurer
HAROLD LIEBOWITZ, Dept. of Oriental and African Languages and Literatures, University
of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
Executive Committee
JOHN G. BORDIE, University of Texas; HAROLD LIEBOWITZ, University of Texas
OFFICERS OF THE WESTERN BRANCH, 2007-2009
President
ROBERT JOE CUTTER, Department of Languages and Literatures Arizona State University PO Box 870202 Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
Vice-President
RICHARD VON GLAHN, Department of History, University of California Los Angeles, 6265 Bunche Hall,Box 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Secretary-Treasurer
MEOW HUI GOH, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, 358 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210
Executive Committee
DAVID BRANNER (2010), University of Maryland; MEOW HUI GOH (2011), Ohio State University;
JONATHAN PEASE (2009), Portland State University; ANNA M. SHIELDS, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; RICHARD VON GLAHN (2009), University of California Los Angeles; STEPHEN A. WADLEY (2010), Portland State University, STEPHEN H. WEST (2008), University of California, Berkeley; HE YUMING (2008), University of Chicago
Most recently updated: 03/20/2008