Denis Sinor#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1535 |
| Membership type: | (Foreign) |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Denis Sinor passed away January 12, 2011.
Positions Held
- Professor Emeritus of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University
- 1963 - 1988 Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
- 1963 - 1981 Chair of the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University, 2006 renamed The Denis Sinor Institute for Inner Asian Studies
- 1962 Founder of the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (now Department of Central Eurasian Studies), Indiana Univesity
- 1948 - 1962 member of the faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- History of Central Asia
Honours and Awards
- 1971 Doctorate honoris causa, University of Szeged
- Honorary Memberships of the Société Asiatique, Paris, and the Societas Uralo-Altaica, Hamburg
- 1983 Arminius Vambery Medal
- 1982, 1996 Gold Medal of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference
- 1986 Order of the Star of Hungary
- 1998 Silver Avicenna Medal of UNESCO
- 1994 Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1999 Medal of Honor of the American Oriental Society
- Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medaillon of Indian University
- The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain created the Denis Sinor Medal for Inner Asian Studies in the honor of Denis Sinor
