Ruth Lawlor
Assistant Professor
Education
- B.A. History and English, University College Cork, 2014
- MA History, University College Cork, 2016
- PhD History, University of Cambridge, 2019
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
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
- The New York Times-‘Moving Backward’: In Xi’s China, Some See an Era of Total C…
- Los Angeles Times-China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era
- The Spectator-Healing the ‘cancer’ of the Cultural Revolution
- The New York Times-In the ‘Great Game’ of Central Asia, China’s leader seeks th…
- The New Statesman-How the Chinese Communist Party is policing the past to secur…
- BBC- Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution
- The Washington Post In- Xi Jinping’s China, a top university can no longer prom…
- Quartz-China wants to redefine democracy
- Times Higher Education-Chinese scholars pressured over criticism of state on Co…
- The New York Times-Chinese Students Denounce Limits on Free Speech, in a Rare P…
- The Quardian-Making China great again’: Pomp and propaganda as CCP marks centen…
- The New Statesman-China doesn’t just want to be part of the global order
- Reuters-In echo of Mao era, China's schools in book-cleansing drive
- The Associated Press-China university revises charter boosting Communist control
Keywords
China
PRC History
CCP History
CCP Mind
Chinese Cultural Revolution
Xi Jinping Generation
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.
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.
Mostafa Minawi
Associate Professor of History and the Director of Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies
Publications
Books
Osmanlılar ve Afrika Talanı:Sahra'dan Hicaz'a İmparatorluk ve Diplomasi (Istanbul: Koc University Press, 2018).
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Stanford, CA. Stanford University Press, 2016).
Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, late 2022)
Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea Basin (In progress – Under contract with Stanford University Press).
Some Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Sovereignty in Africa at the End of the 19th Century,” The International History Review (May 2020) <DOI:10.1080/07075332.2020.1765837>
- “Telegraphs and Territoriality in Ottoman Africa and Arabia During the Age of High Imperialism,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 18 (2016): 576-587.
- “Beyond Rhetoric: Reassessing Bedouin-Ottoman relations along the route of the Hijaz Telegraph Line at the end of the nineteenth century,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 58 (1-2) (2015): 75–104.
Sample Newspaper Op.Eds.
- A regular contributor to TheHill.com (2015-present.)
- “How Turkey’s Fight Against ISIS Advances its War Against the Kurds,” Wall Street Journal (Jul 30, 2015)
- “Don’t Partition Iraq Along Ethnic Lines,” Haaretz (Jul 18, 2014)
- “Ortadoğu Tarihinin Müşkül Gerçeği,” Evrensel (Jul 13, 2014)
Education
Ph.D. - Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
M.A. - Department of History, University of Toronto.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering & Management, Faculty of Engineering and DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University.
Languages: Arabic, Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, French.
Departments and programs
Links
Keywords
Middle East; Near Eastern Studies; Ottoman Studies; Ottoman History; Transimperial History; World History; Colonialism; Imperialism; Diplomatic History; Microhistory; Refugees; Northeast Africa; Sahara, Arabia; Hijaz; Mediterranean; Turkey; Istanbul; Lebanon; Syria; Libya; Ethiopia; Red Sea; The Horn of Africa.
Maria Cristina Garcia
Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Publications
Books
- State of Disaster: The Failure of US Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
- The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (University of California Press, 2006).
- Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (University of California Press, 1996).
Edited Books
- Whose America? US immigration policy since 1986 (with Maddalena Marinari), University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- A Nation of Immigrants reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (with Maddalena Marinari and Madeline Hsu), University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Books in Progress
- Origin Stories: Myth and History in the American Immigration Experience (under contract)
Select recent articles, book chapters, and public access articles
- "A Nation of Immigrants, A Nation of Refuge," in New Narratives on the Peopling of America, ed. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Delano Alonso (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2024)
- Co-author of "#Microsyllabus: Immigration Enforcement and the US-Mexico Border," Radical History Review's Abusable Past Blog.
- "Does the United States need a Climate Refugee Policy?" Historical Climatology, April 2019.
- "National (In)security and the 1996 Immigration Act,” Modern American History, vol.1, no.2 (July 2018): 233-236.
- Co-author #ImmigrationSyllabus
Education
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
BA Georgetown University