Timothy M. Davis is an assistant professor of history at BYU. He received his Ph. D. in pre-modern Chinese history from Columbia University in 2008. His research interests center on the cultural history of Medieval China with particular emphasis on the relationship between commemoration and the construction of historical memory at the local and national level. His dissertation entitled “Potent Stone: Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China” examines the religious, social, and cultural significance of stone-inscribed biographies called muzhiming.