Max Oidtmann

Max Oidtmann (or Max Gordon Oidtmann) (born in 1979) is a U.S. historian of Late Imperial China (1368-1912) and Inner Asia (Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria). He also is interested in modern China and the affairs of minority ethnicities in the People’s Republic of China. An assistant professor of history at Georgetown University, he has taught Asian history – as well as specialized courses on the history of China, Islam and Muslims in East Asia, Tibet, and comparative studies of empire and colonialism – at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar, since 2013.

In 2001, he earned a BA degree in history (with concentration in East Asian Studies) at Carleton College.

In 2007, he earned his M.A. degree in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard University.

In March 2014, he received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University.

Since August 2015 he has taught Asian History at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar.

Max Oidtmann works with historical materials in Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu and Japanese languages.

He is currently working on two book projects. The first – Forging the Golden Urn: Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, 1792-1911 – is a political history of reincarnation in China from the late 1700s through the present. The second – Between Patron and Priest: Qing Legal Culture and the Creation of A "Tibetan World" in Amdo, 1720-1912 – is a study of the legal culture of Tibet during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

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