Graduate Students :: Graduates
Nicole Willock
Email: nwillock@indiana.edu
Advisor: Elliot Sperling
M.A.: Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Research Interests: Autobiographies of Tibetan Monastic Scholars in modern China; rnam-thar as a literary genre
Languages: Lhasa Tibetan, Amdo Tibetan, Classical Tibetan, Mandarin Chinese, Classical Chinese, German, Reading French
Honors and Awards
- Fall 2006 through Fall 2007. Assistant Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies.
- Spring 2007. Teaching Opportunity Grant funded by the Inner Asian Uralic National Resource Center and the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Taught “Constructing Culture: Imagining Tibet”--a course on the globalization of Tibetan Culture to undergraduate and graduate students.
- 2005-2006. Recipient of the Fellowship for Language Area Studies (FLAS) for study of Tibetan during the academic year
- Summer 2005. Recipient of Indiana University’s Pre-dissertation Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs and the Office of Research and University Graduate school.
- Summer 2005. Awarded grant from the University of Minnesota for an on-line learning module called “A Week in Rebkong”. Teaches Amdo dialect to students familiar with Lhasa dialect.
- 2004-2005. Recipient of the FLAS for study of Tibetan during the academic year.
- Summer 2004. Recipient of the FLAS for two month Tibetan language program at Tibet University, Lhasa. Recipient of Indiana University’s International Summer Enhancement Grant.
- 2003-2004. Recipient of the FLAS for study of Tibetan during the academic year.
- Summer 2003. Recipient of the FLAS for a two month Tibetan language program in Boudha, Nepal. Recipient of Indiana University’s International Summer Enhancement Grant.
- 2002-2003: Received Indiana University’s Recruitment Fellowship.
