Jack Weatherford
Anthropologist; author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
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- Jack Weatherford is an American anthropologist and author, born in South Carolina in 1946.
- Weatherford taught for 29 years at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, holding the DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Chair of Anthropology.
- Early books such as Indian Givers (1988) traced what the peoples of the Americas gave the world.
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004) became a New York Times best-seller and changed popular views of Mongol history.
- In 2022 Weatherford became the first foreigner to receive Mongolia's Order of Chinggis Khan.
Key facts
- Born
- 1946, Dovesville, South Carolina1
- Education
- PhD in anthropology, University of California, San Diego1
- Career
- Legislative assistant to Senator John Glenn; DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Chair of Anthropology, Macalester College, for 29 years1
- Books
- Indian Givers (1988); The History of Money (1997); Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004); The Secret History of the Mongol Queens (2010); Emperor of the Seas (2024)1
- Honours
- Mongolia's Order of the Polar Star (2006); Order of Chinggis Khan (2022), its first foreign recipient1
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