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Thomas Shawn Mullaney

Thomas Shawn Mullaney

American historian

Thomas Shawn Mullaney (born 1978) is an American sinologist. He is a Guggenheim fellow.[1] He is professor of History at Stanford University, working on technology, race, and ethnicity in China.[2][3][4][5][6]

Mullaney received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 2006 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification and Scientific Statecraft in Modern China, 1928-1954," under the supervision of Madeleine Zelin.[7][8]

His dissertation became the basis of his first book, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, which received the 2011 American Historical Association Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject.” Benedict Anderson wrote a foreword for the book.[9] His 2017 book The Chinese Typewriter: A History won the John K. Fairbank Prize, the Lewis Mumford Award, and Honorable Mention by the Joseph Levenson Book Prize.[10][11] In the same year, Mullaney joined the faculty of Stanford as assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012, and to full professor in 2019.

Education

Selected publications and exhibitions

Monographs

Museum exhibitions

Edited volumes and special issues

  • Your Computer is On Fire. MIT Press, 2021. [With Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip]
  • The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2019.
  • Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority. University of California Press, 2012. [With James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche]

Awards and honors

References

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    Aeon, Thomas S. Mullaney (2016-09-14). "America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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    "Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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    Crichton, Danny (2021-06-29). "The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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    "How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard | Psyche Ideas". Psyche. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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    Mullaney, Thomas (2011). Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press. pp. xxi.
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    Mullaney, Thomas (2006). Coming to Terms with the Nation: ethnic classification and scientific statecraft in mondern China, 1928-1954 (Thesis).
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    Breiner, Andrew (2021-09-24). "Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs in Residence | Insights". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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    Foundation, Mellon. "New Directions Fellowships Recipients". Mellon Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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    "Stanford historian wins prize for work at intersection of history, technology | Stanford Humanities Center". shc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
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