Thomas Shawn Mullaney
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[edit]
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- PhD, Columbia University, 2006
- MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000
- BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Selected publications and exhibitions[edit]
Monographs[edit]
- Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). University of Chicago Press, 2022. [With Christopher Rea]
- The Chinese Typewriter: A History. MIT Press. 2017.
- Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press, 2010.
Museum exhibitions[edit]
- Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age (Museum of Chinese in America, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum)[12]
Edited volumes and special issues[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 2021 Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology & Society[13]
- 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
- 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship[14]
- 2018 The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
- 2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar [Project: Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia); Duration: 2016-2018]
- 2013 Abbot Payson Usher Prize [For “The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism.”][15]
- 2012-14 National Science Foundation 3-Year Grant (Science, Technology and Society Award)
- 2011 American Historical Association Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject”
- 2010-12 Annenberg Faculty Fellow
References[edit]
- ^ "Thomas S. Mullaney". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "Thomas Mullaney | Department of History". history.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ Crichton, Danny (2021-06-29). "The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard | Psyche Ideas". Psyche. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ Mullaney, Thomas (2011). Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press. pp. xxi.
- ^ Mullaney, Thomas (2006). Coming to Terms with the Nation: ethnic classification and scientific statecraft in mondern China, 1928-1954 (Thesis).
- ^ "Google Books".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "AAS 2019 Book Prizes | H-Asia | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "What's On – Museum of Chinese in America". Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ Breiner, Andrew (2021-09-24). "Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs in Residence | Insights". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ Foundation, Mellon. "New Directions Fellowships Recipients". Mellon Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "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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