Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik

Assistant Professor

Publications

Book

Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future (Stanford University Press, 2023).

Articles and Book Chapters

“’Collecting Bosoms:’ Sex, Race, and Masculinity at the Pan-African Festival of Algiers, 1969,” Arab Studies Journal, XXIX, no. 2, (Fall 2021), 96-117.

““Between their hands a fabulous geography is born”: The Maghreb generation and the fight to decolonize and unite Africa’s minds,” in Visions of African Unity, Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli (eds.), (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 237-259, invited to contribute by editors.

“The Quest for a Pan-African Groove: Saxophones and Stories from the Pan-African Festival of Algiers (1969),” World Art, 9 (1), July 2018, 1-14.

“Flickering Fault Lines: The 1969 Pan-African Festival of Algiers and the Struggle for a Unified Africa” in Monde(s), 2016/1 (N° 9)

Op-eds and Shorter Pieces

“Puigaudeau and Sénones: A Graphic Novel on Mauritania Circa 1933” in a special edition on Comix of The Markaz Review, August 2021, contribution solicited by editors, https://themarkaz.org/magazine/puigaudeau-senones-graphic-novel-on-mauritania-circa-1933

“On Decolonial Studies,” or in French translation “Des Études Décoloniales,” Jadaliyya, April 19th, 2021, https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42608/On-Decolonial-Studies-42608

“Run naked towards the sun/Raise your barricades/Make your revolution: Poetic Revolution and Postcolonial Discourse,” Yoav di-Capua and Cyrus Schayegh (eds.), invited contribution to a roundtable in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1 (Spring 2020), 161-6.

Academic Podcasts:

“The Mad-for-Maghreb Generation: the Maghreb in the Pan-African Cultural Project,” Maghreb in the Past and Present Series, Episode 55, recorded November 2018.

“The History of Pan-Africanism in the Postcolonial Period: The Pan-African Festival of Algiers of 1969,” Maghreb in the Past and Present Series, Episode 53, recorded June 2018.

Oral History Online Publications:

Contributor to PANAFEST Archives, Paris, France, http://webdocs-sciences-sociales.science/panafest/, 2018-2020.

Klarman Hall
343 McGraw Hall
pt423@cornell.edu

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania, PhD
  • École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, MA
  • Brandeis University, BA

Departments and programs

Ruth Lawlor

Assistant Professor

Klarman Hall
303 McGraw Hall
rgl79@cornell.edu

Education

  • B.A. History and English, University College Cork, 2014
  • MA History, University College Cork, 2016
  • PhD History, University of Cambridge, 2019

Departments and programs

Justine Modica

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow

Klarman Hall
438 McGraw Hall
jm2767@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, minor in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Stanford University, 2022

M.A., History, Stanford University, 2017

B.A., History, Dartmouth College, 2009

Departments and programs

Peidong Sun

Distinguished Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences in China and Asia-Pacific Studies; Associate Professor of History

Publications

Books in Chinese

Peidong Sun. 2013. Fashion and Politics: Everyday Clothing Choices in Guangdong during the Cultural Revolution(Beijing: People’s Publishing House).

Peidong Sun. 2012; 2013. Who Will Marry My Daughter? The Parental Matchmaking Corner in Shanghai’s People’s Square(Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press).

Edited books in English

Patricia Thornton, Peidong Sun & Chris Berry eds. 2017. Red Shadows: Memories and Legacies of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Books in progress in English

Red Genes: How the Cultural Revolution Has Shaped the Xi Jinping Generation.

The CCP Mind: A Hidden Story.

A Certain Regard for China: Personal Accounts of French Academics Across Generations(Under contract with Routledge)

Fashion and Politics in China's Cultural Revolution(English Version)

Crossing the Three Great Walls: A Memoir

Klarman Hall
309 McGraw Hall
ps786@cornell.edu

Education

 

  • Ph.D., Sociology, Sciences Po Paris
  • Ph.D., Law, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • M.A., French Literature, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • B.A., French, Sun Yat-Sen University

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

China

PRC History

CCP History

CCP Mind

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Xi Jinping Generation

Juan Fernandez

PhD Candidate

Publications

"Masculinity and Misperformance: The Death of William Jones Among the Ilongots, 1909." In Indigenous Studies in the Philippines. Leah Abayao, Jimmy Fong, and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. (Forthcoming.)

"'From Savages to Soldiers': The Igorot Body, Militarized Masculinity, and the Logic of Transformation in Dean C. Worcester's Philippine Photographs." Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. (Forthcoming.)

(With Sophia Cuevas Mable and Imelda de Guzman Olvida). “Where Peasants Are Kings: Food Sovereignty in the Tagbanua Traditional Subsistence System.” Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 8, no. 1 (2015): 27–44.

Klarman Hall
Mcgraw Hall, Room B7
jef323@cornell.edu

Education

M.A. Cornell University (2019)
M.A. University of Chicago (2015)

Departments and programs

Stephen Vider

Associate Professor

Publications

Book

The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Articles

"Public Disclosures of Private Realities: HIV/AIDS and the Domestic Archive,” Public Historian 41 no. 2 (2019), 163-189

“Clinical Activism in Community-based Practice: The Case of LGBT Affirmative Care at the Eromin Center, Philadelphia, 1973–1984," with David S. Byers and Emil Smith, American Psychologist 74, no. 8 (2019), 868-881.

“Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment in the 1950s and 1960s United States,” Gender & History 29, no. 3 (2017), 693-715

“The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community’: Communal Living and Gay Liberation in the 1970s,” Gender & History 27, no. 3 (2015), 865-881

“‘Oh Hell, May, Why Don't You People Have a Cookbook?’: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity,” American Quarterly 65, no. 4 (2013): 877-904 (Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, January 2015)

“Sanford Versus Steinberg: Black Sitcoms, Jewish Writers, and the 1970s Ethnic Revival,” Transition 105 (2011): 21-29

Book Chapters

“What Happened to the Functional Family?: Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage,” Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History, edited by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)

“Domesticity,” Routledge History of American Sexuality, edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and David Serlin (New York: Routledge, 2019)

“Consumerism,” Routledge History of Queer America, edited by Don Romesburg (New York: Routledge, 2018), 344-358

“’Nobody’s Goddamn Business But My Own’: Leonard Frey and the Politics of Jewish and Gay Visibility in the 1970s,” in The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics, edited by Matt Bell (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016), 190-215

Exhibition Catalogues

Co-author, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, with Donald Albrecht, Skira Rizzoli and the Museum of the City of New York, 2016 (Finalist, 2017 Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Nonfiction)

“The Makings of Home,” essay in exhibition catalogue for On the Domestic Front: Scenes of Everyday Queer Life, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, curated by James Saslow, August to October 2015

Klarman Hall
McGraw Hall
svider@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, History of American Civilization
  • M.A., Harvard University, English
  • B.A., Yale University, English and Psychology

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Post WWII US History; Public History; LGBTQ Studies

Mara Yue Du

Assistant Professor

Publications

 

“Toward a Nation Defined by State: Tattooed Loyalty and the Evolution of Yue Fei’s (1103-1142) Image from the Song to the Present,”  Journal of Chinese History, 8.1 (2024), 23-48.

“Unlimited Debt toward Father and Mother: Engendering State-Sponsored Generational Hierarchies in Late Imperial China,” Asia Major, 34.2 (2021), pp.93-125.

“From Dynastic State to Imperial Nation: International Law, Diplomacy, and Conceptual Decentralization of China, 1860s-1900s,” Late Imperial China, 42.1 (2021), pp.177-220.

“Bringing Chinese Law in Line with Western Standards? Problematizing ‘Chinese’ and ‘Western’ in the Late Qing Debate over the New Criminal Code,” Frontiers of History in China, 16.1 (2021), pp.39-72.

“Policies and Counterstrategies: State-Sponsored Filiality and False Accusation in Qing China,” International Journal of Asian Studies, 16.2 (2019), pp.79-97.

“Reforming Social Customs through Law: Dynamics and Discrepancies in the Nationalist Reform of the Adoptive Daughter-in-Law,” NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China 21.1 (2019), pp.76-106.

“Sun Yat-sen as Guofu: Competition over Nationalist Party Orthodoxy in the Second Sino-Japanese War,” Modern China 45.2 (2019), pp.201-235.

“Concubinage and Motherhood in Qing China (1644-1911): Ritual, Law, and Custodial Rights of Property,” Journal of Family History 42.2 (2017), pp.162-183.

“Legal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Mongolia: Gender, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Manchu-Mongol Marriage Alliance,” Late Imperial China 37.2 (2016), pp.1-40.

Klarman Hall
McGraw Hall
yue.du@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D. History, New York University
M.A. History, Peking University
B.A. Sociology, Peking University

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Late Imperial and Modern China; Law; Family and Gender; Empire- and Nation-Building; Sino-Foreign Relations; Chinese Overseas.

 

Rachel Judith Weil

Professor

Publications

Academic Articles

  • Politics and Gender in Crisis in David Underdown’s “The Taming of the Scold".  History Compass.  11. 2013
  • The Public, the Private, and Feminist Historiography.  Histoire Sociale. Social History.  80:421. 2007
  • Thinking about Allegiance in the English Civil War.  History Workshop Journal.  61:183-191. 2006
  • Book Review Colloquium: Modernity and the Glorious Revolution.  Huntington Library Quarterly.  

Books

  • A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England.  New Haven: Yale University Press. 2013
  • Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England 1680-1714 .  Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press. 1999

Chapters 

  • National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688.  After Secular Law. Ed. Sullivan, Winnifred.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press. 2011
  • Matthew Smith Versus the "Great Men" : Plot Talk, the Public Sphere, and the Problem of Credibility in the 1690s.  The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England. 2007
  • The Female Politician in the Late Stuart Age.  Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II. 2007
  • The Family in the Exclusion Crisis: Locke versus. Filmer Revisited.  A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration. 2001
  • Sometimes a Scepter is only a Scepter: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England.  The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800. 1993
  • The Politics of Legitimacy: Women and the Warming Pan Scandal.  The Revolution of 1688-1689 : Changing Perspectives. 1992
Klarman Hall
438 McGraw Hall
rjw5@cornell.edu
607/255-8897

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

gender; political culture in early modern England and Europe

Kristin Roebuck

Assistant Professor & Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow

Publications

Scholarship

Japan Reborn: Race, Sex and Eugenics from World War to Cold War.  Under contract, Columbia University Press.

"Science without Borders?  War, Empire, and the Contested Science of 'Race Mixing' in Japan, East Asia, and the West."  In Who Is the Asianist?  The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies, eds. Will Bridges, Nitasha Tamar Sharma, and Marvin D. Sterling (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022).

"Remember Girl Zero: Asia-Pacific Patriliny and Female Slavery." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Vol. 81.1&2 (June–Dec. 2021).

“Orphans by Design: ‘Mixed-Blood’ Children, Child Welfare, and Racial Nationalism in Postwar Japan.” Japanese Studies Vol. 36.2 (Sep. 2016). 

“De-Provincializing Eugenics: The Persistence of ‘Race Hygiene’ in Japan after Its Decline in the West.”  In Asia and Africa across Disciplinary and National Lines (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press, 2015).

Mass Media

"Princess Mako of Japan's Commoner Wedding Suggests Sexism Will Doom the Royal Family."  NBC News (31 Oct. 2021).

"Akihito Bows Out, Ushering in New Era for Japan's Post-War Generation." The Hill (30 April 2019). 

"Japan, U.S. Face Legacies of Forced Sterilization." Global Journalist, National Public Radio (25 Oct. 2018). 

Klarman Hall
455 McGraw Hall
kar79@cornell.edu
607/255-8862

Education

PhD, MPhil, and MA in East Asian History, Columbia University

BA in History, Barnard College

Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science and Economics, Exchange Researcher

Departments and programs

Keywords

history of the body, medicine, and law; race and sexuality; slavery; Japanese international relations

Tamara Loos

Professor

Publications

Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016).

Klarman Hall
440 McGraw Hall
tamaraloos@cornell.edu
607/2558862

Departments and programs

Keywords

Southeast Asia; Thailand; gender; legal studies; sexuality; Internet; travel; identity

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