Denis Sinor#

Email:	sinord 'at' indiana.edu
Membership Number:	1535
Main Country of Residence:	UNITED STATES
Section:	CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES
Username:	dsinor

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Denis Sinor passed away January 12, 2011

Positions Held

• Professor Emeritus of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University
• 1963 to 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 Denis Sinor creates the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (now Department of Central Eurasian Studies), Indiana Univesity
• 1948 to 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