Dru C. Gladney
{{Short description|American anthropologist (1956–2022)}}
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| death_date = March 17, 2022 (aged 65)
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Dru Curtis Gladney (November 3, 1956 – March 17, 2022) was an American anthropologist who was president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and a professor of anthropology there. Gladney authored four books and more than 100 academic articles and book chapters on topics spanning the Asian continent.
Early life
Gladney was born and raised in Pomona, California, and attended Westmont College. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1987.
Career and research
Gladney focused his research on ethnic and cultural nationalism in Asia, specializing in the peoples, politics, and cultures of the Silk Road and Muslim Chinese (or Hui). A two-time Fulbright Research Scholar to China and Turkey, he conducted long-term field research in Western China, Central Asia, and Turkey. The results of his work have been featured on CNN, BBC,{{cite news |title=Deadly attack on police in China's Xinjiang province |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14186163 |publisher=BBC News |date=July 18, 2011}} Voice of America, National Public Radio,{{cite web |title=After Uighur Attacks, Understanding Muslims in China |website=NPR.org |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93587280}} al-Jazeerah, and in Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.
Gladney's 2004 book, Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects{{cite book |last=Gladney |first=Dru |title=Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects |year=2004 |publisher=University of Chicago |location=Chicago |isbn=0-226-29775-6}} was published by the University of Chicago Press.{{cite journal |last1=Dillon |first1=Michael |title=Review of Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and Other Subaltern Subjects |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |date=2005 |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=489–491 |doi=10.1017/S0041977X05420273 |jstor=20181969|s2cid=161326340 }}{{cite journal |last1=Jaschok |first1=Maria |title=Review of Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and Other Subaltern Subjects |journal=Journal of Islamic Studies |date=2005 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=269–274 |doi=10.1093/jis/eti149 |jstor=26199589}} His 1991 Harvard East Asian Monographs 149 book was Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic.{{cite book |last=Gladney |first=Dru |title=Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic |url=https://archive.org/details/muslimchineseeth00glad |url-access=registration |year=1991 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Mass. |isbn=0-674-59497-5}}{{cite journal |last1=Duara |first1=Prasenjit |title=Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic. By Dru C. Gladney. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 149, 1991. $38.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=August 1992 |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=644–646 |doi=10.2307/2057971|jstor=2057971 |s2cid=165641114 }}{{cite journal |last1=Lipman |first1=Jonathan |title=Review of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |date=1994 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=116–119 |doi=10.1017/S0020743800059870 |jstor=164063|s2cid=161263223 }}{{cite journal |last1=Crossley |first1=Pamela Kyle |title=Review of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic |journal=Ethnohistory |date=Spring 1993 |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=344 |doi=10.2307/482225|jstor=482225 }}{{cite journal |last1=Dillon |first1=Michael |title=Review of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic |journal=The China Quarterly |date=1992 |issue=131 |pages=792–793 |doi=10.1017/S0305741000046397 |jstor=654907|s2cid=154870352 }} He authored (1998) Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality;{{cite book |last=Gladney |first=Dru |title=Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality |year=2003 |publisher=Wadsworth |isbn=0-534-06698-4}} and was editor of Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S.{{cite book |last=Gladney |first=Dru |title=Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S. |year=1998 |publisher=Stanford |location=Stanford |isbn=0-8047-3048-2}}
Gladney joined the Pomona College faculty in 2006 as a professor of anthropology. He was president of the Pacific Basin Institute and chair of the anthropology department for a time. He held faculty positions and post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University; the University of Southern California; King's College, Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; the East–West Center, Honolulu; and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He was a consultant to the Soros Foundation, Ford Foundation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Getty Museum, National Academy of Sciences, European Center for Conflict Prevention, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and UNESCO.{{cite web |title=Interview with Professor Dru Gladney |url=http://www.purdue.edu/crcs/itemProjects/beijingSummit/interviews/gladney.html |access-date=September 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009062421/http://www.purdue.edu/crcs/itemProjects/beijingSummit/interviews/gladney.html |archive-date=October 9, 2012 |url-status=dead}} He served on the Advisory Board of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement.{{cite web |title=Advisory Board |url=https://nationalawakening.org/about-etnam/advisory-board/ |publisher=East Turkistan National Awakening Movement |accessdate=May 11, 2019 |archive-date=December 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216112259/https://nationalawakening.org/about-etnam/advisory-board/ |url-status=dead }}
Death
Gladney died on March 17, 2022, aged 65.{{cite news |title=In Memoriam: Anthropology Professor Dru Gladney |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2022/03/18-memoriam-anthropology-professor-dru-gladney |access-date=March 20, 2022 |publisher=Pomona College |date=March 18, 2022 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Hudson |first1=Khimmoy |title=In memoriam: Dru Gladney, Pomona anthropology professor |url=https://tsl.news/pomona-professor-drug-gladney-passes-away/ |access-date=1 April 2022 |work=The Student Life |date=1 April 2022}}{{Cite web |date=7 April 2022 |title=Obituary: Dru Curtis Gladney |url=https://claremont-courier.com/obituaries/obituary-dru-curtis-gladney-64830/ |access-date=23 June 2022 |website=Claremont Courier}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/dru-gladney Dru Gladney] faculty profile at Pomona College
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