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Franciscus VerellenMember of the Academy of Inscriptions
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Franciscus Verellen is director of the French School of Asian Studies, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), since March 2004. A specialist of medieval China, he holds the chair in History of Taoism in the joint faculty of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, the Ecole Nationale des Chartes, and the EFEO. Having joined the EFEO in 1991, Verellen previously served as head of its Taipei and Hong Kong Centers and of the Chinese Studies division.
Franciscus Verellen participates in many international research activities and has published more than fifty articles and books on regional culture in medieval China and the history of Taoism, including The Taoist canon: A historical companion to the Daozang, 3 volumes, The University of Chicago Press, 2004 (edited with Kristofer Schipper).
After doctoral studies at Oxford and Paris, Franciscus Verellen taught at Columbia University, New York, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and as visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley. Verellen is an honorary professor of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is chairman of the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF), which was founded in 2007 at his initiative. In 2008 he was elected academician in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Institut de France). A Stewart Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University in 2005, Verellen was appointed a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 2009.
June 2009