Thomas Shawn Mullaney
Thomas Shawn Mullaney | |
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| Born | 1978 |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Occupation | Historian |
Thomas Shawn Mullaney (born 1978) is an American historian of China and 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] 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.[7][8] His first book, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, 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] He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2006. 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
PhD, Columbia University, 2006
MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000
BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Selected Publications and Exhibitions
Monographs
- 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
- Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age (Museum of Chinese in America, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum)[10]
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
- 2021 Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology & Society[11]
- 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
- 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship[12]
- 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.”][13]
- 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
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Template:Cite document
- ↑ "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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