Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to inform you that another wonderful scholar, Dr. William McGrath, has decided to join our mailing list! Please see below his self-introduction. "I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Manhattan College, where I teach courses on Buddhism, Chinese Religions, and so forth. In my research I specialize in Tibetan and Chinese medicines, religions, and histories, with a particular emphasis on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. I am currently writing about the institutionalization of Tibetan medicine at Sakya monastery in the late Yuan, and future projects will consider religious responses to bubonic plague in Tibet, as well as the trans-Eurasian transmission of surgical traditions." Please note that the abstract of his dissertation, submitted to University of Virginia in 2017, can be found here<https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/td96k261g>. Cheers, Reiko Shinno, Ph.D. Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire