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.
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
Departments and programs
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
Links
Keywords
gender; political culture in early modern England and Europe
Claudia Verhoeven
Associate Professor
Publications
- Books:
- The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism. Cornell, 2009. Paperback 2011.
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, eds. Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean, eds. Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Benjamin Marschke, and Claudia Verhoeven. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.
- Articles & Anthology Chapters:
- “Epilogue: Shock and Awe, Terrorism and Theory,” The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, eds. Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Online publication January 2021 at https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858569.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199858569-e-42
- “’Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter’: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family.” Time and Power. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, eds. Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- “Time Bombs: Terrorism as a Political Modernism in Russia and Europe,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, eds. Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Online publication August 2020 at https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858569.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199858569-e-011
- “Rethinking Revolution: Radicalism at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century,” The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought, Vol. I, eds. Peter Gordon and Warren Breckman. Cambridge, 2019.
- “’Une Révolution Vraiment Scientifique’: Russian Revolutionary Terrorism, the Escape from the European Orbit, and the Invention of a New Revolutionary Paradigm,” Scripting Revolution, eds. Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein. Stanford/Surhkamp, 2015.
- “Adventures in Terrorism: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky and the Literary Lives of the Russian Revolutionary Community, 1860s-1880s,” Community, Kinship, and Self: Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean, eds. Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Benjamin Marschke, and Claudia Verhoeven. Berghahn Books, 2014.
- “Wormholes in Russian History: Events ‘Outside of Time’ (Featuring Malevich, Morozov, and Mayakovsky),” Breaking Up Time: Settling the Borders between the Present, the Past and the Future, ed. Christ Lorenz and Berber Bevernage. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
- “Oh, Times, There is No Time (But the Time that Remains): The Terrorist in Russian Literature, 1863-1913,” Terrorism and Narrative Practice, eds. Thomas Austenfeld, Dimiter Daphinoff, Jens. Munster: LIT Verlag, 2011.
- “Time of Terror, Terror of Time: On the Impatience of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism.” Special Issue of Jahrbücher für die Geschichte Osteuropas: “Terrorism in Imperial Russia: New Perspectives.” 58 (2010): 2, pp. 254-273.
- “Crime and Punishment Draws the Line,” in Blooms Literary Themes: Civil Disobedience, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. Chelsea House, 2010.
- “Court Files,” in Reading Primary Sources. The Interpretation of Texts from 19th and 20th Century History, ed. Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann. Routledge, 2008.
- “The Making of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism,” in Enemies of Humanity: The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism, ed. Isaac Land. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2008.
Education
- B.A. Philosophy UC Berkeley 1994
- Ph.D. History UCLA 2004
Departments and programs
Links
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).
“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).
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
Lawrence B. Glickman
Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies
Paul Friedland
Professor
Publications
Selected Publications:
“Every Island is not Haiti: The French Revolution in the Windward Islands” in Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World, edited by David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker (Oxford University Press, 2018)
“Friends for Dinner: ‘Humane Slaughter’ and the Early Modern Roots of Modern Carnivorous Sensibilities” in History of the Present, vol. 1, no. 1 (2011)
Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France (Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback, 2014)
Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2002; paperback, 2003). (Awarded the 2003 David Pinkney Prize)
Education
B.A. Brown University
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley