Updated on 2026/09/21

写真a

 
POUNT, Dotno Dashdorj
 
Affiliation
Affiliated organization, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Job title
Assistant Professor(non-tenure-track)

Research Experience

  • 2026.04
    -
    Now

    Waseda University   Waseda Institute for Advanced Study   Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track)

  • 2025.07
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    2026.05

    Harvard Divinity School   Women's Studies in Religion Program   Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer of Inner Asian Religions and Gender Studies

  • 2023.07
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    2025.06

    University of Pennsylvania   East Asian Languages and Civilizations   Lecturer

  • 2023.07
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    2025.02

    University of Delaware   History   Adjunct Professor

Education Background

  • 2017.08
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    2023.06

    University of Pennsylvania   East Asian Languages and Civilizations  

  • 2014.09
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    2015.12

    School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London  

  • 2006.08
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    2010.06

    Princeton University  

Research Areas

  • History of Asia and Africa   Mongolia, Religious Studies, Cult of Chinggis Khan, Sacred Kingship

Research Interests

  • Textual Criticism

  • Digital Humanities

  • Historiography

  • Worship of Chinggis Khan

  • Legacy of Chinggis Khan

  • Religions of Mongolia

  • History of Mongolia

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Awards

  • Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) Junior Fellow

    2025   Rare Book School, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)  

  • Best of the Next Generation of American Mongolists Competition – First Prize

    2023   Mongolia Society   Visual and aural translation of Buddhist culture from Tibet to Mongolia: dating two texts from the Cult of Chinggis Khan textual corpus

  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship

    2022   University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Division.  

  • Departmental Fellowship for Summer Research

    2018.12   ast Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania.  

  • W. Allyn Rickett Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Chinese Hu- manities

    2018.12   University of Pennsylvania, EALC Department   Who built the ‘Wall in the North’ and what does Chinggis Khan have to do with it?

 

Papers

  • Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid period

    Pount, Dotno

       2023

    Authorship：Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  • The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty By Sagang Sechen. Translated by Johan Elverskog. 376 pp. New York, Columbia University Press, 2023.

    Dotno Pount

    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society   36 ( 2 ) 451 - 453  2026.02

    DOI

  • Visual and aural translation of Buddhist culture from Tibet to Mongolia: dating two texts from the Cult of Chinggis Khan textual corpus

    Pount, Dotno

    Mongolian Studies   41   62 - 98  2025  [Refereed]  [Invited]

    Authorship：Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  • “The Cult of Chinggis Khan (a.k.a. Genghis Khan) in Mongolia.”

    https://religiondatabase.org/browse/1220/    2023

  • The worship of Qasar: state religion, masculinity, and the lineage-based view of ethnicity.

    The Proceedings of the XIV Annual International Mongolian Studies Conference “Art and Culture Among the Mongols”     252 - 286  2020

    Authorship：Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  • Who built the “Wall in the North” and what does Chinggis Khan have to do with it?

    Pount, Dotno

    Proceedings of the XIII International Mongolian Studies Conference Washington, D.C. February 15-16, 2019.    2019

    Authorship：Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  • Land reform in 1950s Inner Mongolia

    Proceedings of the XII Annual Int’l Mongolian Studies Conference. 2018.     48 - 64  2018

    Authorship：Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  • Immigrants of Inner Mongolia: a legacy of Pan-Mongolism, 1945-1946

    Pount, Dotno

       2015

    Authorship：Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

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