Dr. Roger Finch
Dr. Finch, who is now with Surugadai University, holds a B.A. degree in
music theory from the George Washington University. From there he advanced
to Harvard, where he completed course requirements for an M.A. in linguistics,
and then transferred to the doctoral programme there, in the Department
of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. There he specialized in Central
Asian Studies and the comparative languages and cultures of the Altaic peoples.
He studied Turcology under Omeljan Pritsak, Mongolian language and history
under Francis Woodman Cleaves, and Central Asian history and Manchu under
Joseph Fletcher. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1977. Dr. Finch is a member
of the Council of the ASJ; though his face may not be so familiar to many
members, he does invaluable work as a backroom boy, having taken over the
editorship of the "Transactions of the Asiatic Society" from Dr.
Derek Massarella in 1991.
Adapted from "The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin No. 9",
November 1994, compiled by Hugh Wilkinson.
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