Dr. Timothy Grose is a professor of China Studies with expertise in ethnicity, ethnic policy in China and minority education. Much of his current research is focused on the Uyghur population, an ethnic minority in China. His expertise in this area has been sought by several international and national media. Dr. Grose also organized a four-day campus residency during the 2015-16 academic year for a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks in order to increase campus awareness of and interest in East Asian cultures.
Academic Degrees
- 2008-2014 Ph.D., Department of Central Eurasian Studies Indiana University
- 2005-2007 M.A., Department of East Asian Studies, University of Virginia
- 2001-2005 B.A., East Asian Studies, John Carroll University
Awards & Honors
- 2023 ASIANetwork Embodied Learning about Asia Program
- 2022 [collaborator] Social Science Humanities Research Council Partnership Development Grant
- 2018 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) Research Award (HSSA)
- 2015 RHIT Summer Professional Development Grant
- 2014 Overseas Young Chinese Forum Teaching Fellowship 2013 Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Dissertation Fellowship 2012 China and Inner Asia Council Small Grants Award
Research Experiences
- Ethnicity
- Ethnic Politics in China
- Contemporary Xinjiang
- Tibetan Pop Music
Select Publications & Presentations
BOOK
- 2019 Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Ethno-National Identity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press *Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Prize (Social Sciences)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
- 2022 “Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang.” HAU 12(2): 392-404.
- 2021 “If You Don’t Know How, Just Learn: Chinese Housing and the Transformation of Uyghur Domestic Space.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 44(11): 2052-2073.
- 2020 “Beautifying Uyghur Bodies: Fashion, “Modernity, and State Discipline in the Tarim Basin.” Monde Chinois 63: 13-29.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- 2024 “Hosting the Hostage: Hospitality, the Uyghur Other, and Chinese State-imposed Peace.” In On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, eds., pp. 33-56. Athabasca University Press.
- 2022a [with James Leibold] “Pathology, inducement, and mass incarcerations of Xinjiang’s ‘targeted population.” In The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the causes and consequences of China’s mass detention of Uyghurs. Michael Clarke, ed., pp. 127-153. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- 2022b “Replace and rebuild: Chinese colonial housing in Uyghur communities.” In Xinjiang Year Zero. Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere, eds., pp. 117-126. Canberra: The Australian University Press.
SHORT ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES
- 2024 “Beijing’s Culinary Crusade: Erasing Uyghur Identity through Food.” ChinaFile, May 13. https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/beijings-culinary-crusade-erasing-uyghur-identity-through-food. [also published in Foreign Policy as “China is Trying to Remake Uyghur Kitchens”].
- 2021 “Dragon Boat Festival and Chinese Nation-Building in Xinjiang.” The Diplomat, June 14. https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/dragon-boat-festival-and-chinese-nation-building-in-xinjiang/
- 2020a “How the CCP Took over the Most Sacred of Uighur Rituals.” ChinaFile, December 9. https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/how-ccp-took-over-most-sacred-of-uighur-rituals.
- “Hosting the hostage: Looking beneath China’s policy to infiltrate Uyghur homes.” SupChina, July 24. https://supchina.com/2020/07/24/hosting-the-hostage-looking-beneath-chinas-policy-to-infiltrate-uyghur-homes/.
- 2019 “‘Once Their Mental State is Healthy, They Will Be Able to Live Happily in Society’: How China’s Government Conflates Uighur Identity with Mental Illness.” ChinaFile, August 2. https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/once-their-mental-state-healthy-they-will-be-able-live-happily-society
Teaching Interests
- Contemporary China
- Uyghur and Tibetan Cultures
- Islam
- Religion and Rituals