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

Publications

With Andrew Buchanan, “Hopes Foreclosed and a World Remade: The Long Endings of World War II”, in The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives eds. Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2025).

With Andrew Buchanan,  “Latin America, the Good Neighbor and the Global Second World War”, Antíteses (forthcoming)

“The Stuttgart Incident: Sexual Violence and the Uses of History”, Diplomatic History Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2022: 70–96

“The Wartime Battlefield of Sex”, Modern American History, Vol. 4 Issue 2 (July, 2021): 209-212

“Contested Crimes: Race, Gender, and Nation in GI Histories of Sexual Crime, World War II”, Journal of Military History, Vol. 84 Issue 2 (April, 2020): 541-569

“Working with Death”, AHA Perspectives, December 15, 2020

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 Practices 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).

Upcoming Books in English

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

The CCP Mind: A Hidden Story.

Unfiltered Regard: French Perspectives on China from Mao to Xi(Under contract with Routledge)

Fashion and Politics in China's Cultural Revolution(Under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing)

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

Lyrianne González

History Ph.D. Candidate

Publications

González, Lyrianne. Review. Sarah Coleman, The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021), in Journal of American Ethnic History (Spring 2022).

González, Lyrianne. “Listening to Migrant Workers and Material Culture,” Cornell Public History Initiative, Website, Cornell University, September 2021. https://phi.history.cornell.edu/news-and-stories/listening-to-migrant-workers-and-material-culture/.

González, Lyrianne. “Joy and Aspirations: How Black Female Farmers Revolutionized How I Approach Oral Histories,” Humanities New York Community Partnership Grant, Society for the Humanities’ Rural Humanities, Website, Cornell University, August 2021. https://rural.as.cornell.edu/news/community-partnership-gonzalez.

González, Lyrianne E. “Centering Climate Disaster: A Labor Immigration Driving Force.” Latin American Literary Review 48, no. 96 (Summer 2021): 119–22. https://www.lalrp.net/articles/abstract/10.26824/lalr.259/

 

Klarman Hall

leg88@cornell.edu

Education

B.A. Chicana/o Studies & Psychology - California State University, Northridge, 2019

Departments and programs

Keywords

Labor, Immigration, Ethnic Studies

Mara Yue Du

Associate 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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