Sam H. Bass
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Sam Bass is an assistant professor in the Department of History and a scholar of medieval and early modern China and Inner Asia, working at the intersection of social, religious and political history. He earned his PhD at Indiana University from the Departments of History and Central Eurasian Studies.
Prior to joining U of T, Bass held positions at Simon Fraser University and Indiana University. His work is published in journals including the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and Études mongoles & sibériennes, centrasiatiques & tibétaines.
Currently, he is working on a monograph about the social history of slavery and dependency in early modern Mongolia; that research was supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Program. After joining U of T, Bass received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies to further develop the monograph project. His work on the social history of Inner Asia has inspired a long-term digital humanities project to index, annotate and geolocate historical toponyms found in the multi-lingual corpus of Mongol Empire sources.
At U of T, Bass teaches intro level courses about empires and exchanges in world history, surveys of China and Inner Asia, upper division courses about medieval and early modern China and Mongolia, and graduate courses about religion, ethnicity, and historical method.