Filippo Marsili, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
History
Courses Taught
China and Japan to 1600: Histories, Cultures, Identities; Samurai, Revolutionaries, and Entrepreneurs (China and Japan since 1600); The Gods of the Others: The Sacred, Identities, and Communities across the Globe (Ignite Seminar); From Sunzi鈥檚 Art of War to Bruce Lee: The Culture of Violence in China and Japan; Religions on the Silk Roads; Barbarians, Savages, and Monsters: Otherness in the Ancient World; Theory & Practice of History: Positionality and Reflexivity (Graduate Course)
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2007
B.A., Universit脿 di Roma "La Sapienza," 2000
Research Interests
Cultural and political history of ancient China; History of Religion; Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations; Greco-Roman Historiography History of Historiography; Intercultural and Inter-religious Encounters; Cultural History of Violence
Publications and Media Placements
鈥淔raming the Other: Mindfulness, Photography, and a Reflexive Approach to Comparative
Religions,鈥� in The Teaching of Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition: Essays in Honour of Corrado Pensa. F. Sferra, C. Neri (editors), (Sheffield, UK: Equinox Press, 2024), 82 鈥� 98.
鈥淭丑别 Economics of Myth: Historicizing Discourses on Metal, Soil, and Ritual under
Han Wudi,鈥� in Water Moon Reflections: Essays in Honor of Patricia Berger. Ellen Huang, Nancy G. Lin, Michelle McCoy, and Michelle H. Wang (editors) (Berkeley:
Institute for Asian Studies, University of California, 2021): 9 鈥�33.
Heaven is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Religion and Power in Ancient China (SUNY Press, 2018).
鈥淭丑别 Ghosts of Monotheism: Heaven, Fortune, and Universalism in Early Chinese and
Greco-Roman Historiography,鈥� Fragments 3 (2013 鈥� 2014): 43 鈥� 77.
鈥淭丑别 Ding Tripods,鈥� in C.Y. Liu, M. Nylan, A. Barbieri Law, Recarving China鈥檚 Past (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005): 246-57.
Review of 鈥淜nowing Heaven: Astronomy, the Calendar, and the Sagecraft Science in Early
Imperial China.鈥� By Daniel Patrick Morgan鈥檚, , November 17 (2015);
Review of The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China. By Sebastien Billioud and Jo毛l Thoraval, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2016, 84 (2): 560-563; doi: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw048
Professional Organizations and Associations
Co-creator and organizer of the Speakers Series: The Jesuit, Christianity, China, and the Intercultural Experience; Taiwan Fellow (2018-2019)