Justin T. Clark

Senior Lecturer

Publications

Monographs

City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

The Clockwork Republic: Sociolegal Culture, Time, and Struggle in the United States, 1787-1860 (under contract with University of North Carolina Press).

Edited Volume 

A Cultural History of Time in the Age of Empire and Industry (New York: Bloomsbury, 2026). [Volume 5 of Bloomsbury's six-volume A Cultural History of Time series, edited by Nick Yablon] 

Special Issue

Alexis McCrossen and Justin Clark, eds., “Seeing Time,” Early Popular Visual Culture, May 2022.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Souls in Debt: The Transformation of Carceral Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century New England,” Journal of American History (accepted).

“The Visual in 19th Century American Popular Culture,” in The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture, ed. Lauren Rabinovitz (Cambridge University Press, 2025). 

“Can We Teach Undergraduates the History of Time?,” Time & Society, July 2022.

“Seeing Time,” Early Popular Visual Culture, May 2022. [co-authored with Alexis McCrossen]

“Deploying ‘all-important moments’: Seeing Time in Duke University’s Collections of Early North American Advertisements,” Early Popular Visual Culture 19, May 2022. [co-authored with Alexis McCrossen]

“Motionless Pictures: The Waiting Public in Popular American Visual Culture, 1870-1930,” Early Popular Visual Culture, May 2022. 

“The Secret of Quick Thinking: The Invention of Mental Speed in America, 1890-1920,” Time & Society, May 2020.

“From Global City to ‘City of Villages’: Tracing the State Discourse of Cosmopolitanism in Modern Singaporean History,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, July 2019.

“American Studies in Singapore,” Journal of American Studies, August 2018.

“Confronting the ‘Seeker of Newspaper Notoriety’: Pathological Lying, the Public, and the Press, 1890-1920,” American Journalism, May 2017.

“The Origins of Blind Autobiography in Visionary Antebellum New England,” The New England Quarterly, June 2014.

Recent Book Reviews and Review Essays

“Objects and Rituals of Time in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Reviews in American History, June 2022.

Mark Braude, Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 20, 2022.

Robin Hemley, Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 22, 2020.

Peter J. Brownlee, The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America, American Historical Review, February 2020.

Emily Ogden, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism, Reviews in American History, June 2019.

William Krister Knapp, William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, January 2018.

Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 11, 2018.

Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, LA Review of Books, April 4, 2018. 

Historical Novel

The Zero Season (Penguin Books, 2022)

Klarman Hall

438 McGraw Hall
jtc288@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Southern California

M.S., Columbia University

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

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

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.

 

Russell Rickford

Associate Professor

Publications

“‘These People are No Charles Mansons or Spaced-out Moonies’: Jonestown and African-American Expatriation in the 1970s,” in Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History, Brandon Byrd, Leslie Alexander, and Russell Rickford, eds. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2022).

“1944-1949,” in Four Hundred Souls, eds. Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (New York: One World, 2021), 312-316.

“‘To Build a New World’: African American Internationalism and Palestine Solidarity,“ Journal of Palestine Studies 48, no. 4 (2019): 52-68.

“Black Power as Educational Renaissance: The Harlem Landscape,” in Educating Harlem: Schools and the Referendum on the American Dream, ed. Ansley Erickson (Columbia University Press, 2019), 210-233.

“African-American Expats, Guyana, and the Pan-African Ideal in the 1970s,” in New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley Farmer, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), 233-252.

“Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction,” Journal of Civil and Human Rights 3, no. 1 (2017): 96-99.

“‘We Can’t Grow Food on All This Concrete’: The Land Question, Agrarianism, and Black Nationalist Thought in the late 1960s and 1970s.” Journal of American History.  103. 2017

We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. 2016

“Black Power and Education for Liberation.” in Black Power 50. Ed. Diouf, Sylviane and Komozi Woodard. New York: New Press. 51-69. 2016

“‘Kazi is the Blackest of All’: Pan African Nationalism and the Making of the ‘New Man’, 1969-1975.” Journal of African American History. 101:97-125. 2016

Black Lives Matter: Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle. New Labor Forum.  Winter, 2015.

“‘Socialism From Below’: A Black Scholar's Marxist Genealogy.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. 13:371-392. 2011

Russell Rickford, ed., Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2011).

“Integration, Black Nationalism and Radical Democratic Transformation in African-American Philosophies of Education, 1966-74.” in The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Transformation. Ed. Hinton, Elizabeth Kai and Manning Marable. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 287-317. 2011

Betty Shabazz: A Life Before and After Malcolm X. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks. 2003.

John Rickford and Russell Rickford, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2000.

Klarman Hall

322 McGraw Hall
rr447@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, History

M.Phil., Columbia University, History

M.A., Columbia University, African American Studies

B.A., Howard University, Journalism

Departments and programs

Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Publications

Books

  • The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts Nor Forgeries. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012 (paperback 2016).
  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009 [English translation of Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Civilisations et sociétés 115. Paris: Éd. de l’EHESS, 2003].
  • Musarna. 3, La nécropole impériale. Collection de l’École française de Rome 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009.
  • In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans l’Occident latin. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 283. Rome: École française de Rome, 1994.

Edited volumes

  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010.
  • Economie et religion dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel.  Special issue of Antiquité tardive 14 (2006): 15-116.
  • Hellénisme et christianisme. Edited by Michel Narcy and Éric Rebillard. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
  • Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, christianity, history. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Edited by Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano, Rome: École française de Rome, 2000.
  • L’évêque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle: image et autorité. Collection de l’École française de Rome 248. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 1998.
Klarman Hall

120 Goldwin Smith Hall
er97@cornell.edu
607/255-8640

Education

Professor Rebillard received his PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1993 and is a former member of the Ecole française de Rome. He came at Cornell in 2004 after having held a research position in the French CNRS between 1996 and 2003.

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

Roman History

 

Jon W. Parmenter

Associate Professor

Publications

MONOGRAPH

The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701.  Michigan State University Press, 2010; paperback edition, University of Manitoba Press, 2014.

Recognition and Honors

Honorable Mention, 2010 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Association of American Publishers.

 

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

"The Meaning of Kaswentha and the Two Row Wampum Belt in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) History: Can Indigenous Oral Tradition be Reconciled with the Documentary Record?" Journal of Early American History 3 (2013): 82-109.

 

"The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empires: Iroquois and Acadians between the British and French in North America, 1744-60."  (coauthored with Mark P. Robison) Diplomatic History 31 (2007): 167-206.

 

"After the Mourning Wars: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial North American Campaigns, 1676-1760." William and Mary Quarterly 64 (2007): 39-82.

 

"'L'Arbre de Paix': Eighteenth Century Franco-Iroquois Relations." French Colonial History 4 (2003): 63-80.

 

"Rethinking Penn's Treaty With the Indians: Benjamin West and the Legacy of Native-Settler Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 19 (Spring 2002): 38-44.

 

"Neutralité active des Iroquois durant la guerre de la Succession d'Austriche, 1744-1748 [The Active Neutrality of the Iroquois during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-1748]," trans. Michel Lavoie, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 32 (2002): 29-37.

 

"La politique du deuil: le factionalisme des Onontagués et la mort de Canasatego [The Politics of Mourning: Onondaga Factionalism and the Death of Canasatego]," trans. Françoise Neillon and Jean-Paul Salaün, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 29 (1999): 23-35.

 

"Pontiac's War: Forging New Links in the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain, 1758-1766."  Ethnohistory 44 (1997): 617-54.

 

"Treason in the London District during the War of 1812."  London and Middlesex Historian [Ontario] 20 (Autumn 1993): 5-26.

 

   

BOOK CHAPTERS AND INVITED ESSAYS

"Separate Vessels: Hudson, the Dutch, and the Iroquois."  In Jaap Jacobs and Louis Roper, eds., The Worlds of the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014), 103-33.

 

"In the Wake of Cartier: The Indigenous Context of Champlain's Activities in the St. Lawrence Valley and Upper Great Lakes, 1550-1635."  In Nancy Nahra, ed., When the French Were Here…And They're Still Here: Proceedings of the 2009 Champlain Quadricentennial Conference (Burlington, VT: Champlain College, 2010), 87-115.

 

"'Onenwahatirighsi Sa Gentho Skaghnughtudigh': Reassessing Iroquois Relations with the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755."  In Nancy Rhoden, ed., English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele (Montréal, QC, and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 235-83.

 

"The Significance of the 'Illegal Fur Trade' to the Eighteenth Century Iroquois."  In Louise Johnston, ed., Aboriginal People and the Fur Trade: Proceedings of the 8th North America Fur Trade Conference, Akwesasne (Ottawa, ON, 2001), 40-47.

 

"The Iroquois and the Native American Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1754-1794." In David C. Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds. The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2001), 105-24.

 

"Dragging Canoe (Tsi'yu-gûnsi'ni): Chickamauga Cherokee Patriot."  In Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds.  The Human Tradition in Revolutionary America (Wilmington, DE:  Scholarly Resources Press, 2000), 117-37.

 

"Madame Montour: Cultural Broker on the Eighteenth-Century Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania."  In Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds.  The Human Tradition in Colonial America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press, 1999), 141-59.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND SHORT ESSAYS

"Native Americans," in Mark G. Spencer, ed., Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment (2 vols., New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), 2: 740-43.

 

"The Beaver Wars," in Antonio Thomson and Christos Frentzos, eds., The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History: Colonial Period to 1877 (New York: Routledge, 2014), 33-41.

 

"Agriculture." In John Demos, ed.,American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume 2, The Seventeenth Century (New York: MTM Publishing, 2011), 17-23.

 

 

 

"Native American Warfare"; "Pontiac"; "Little Turtle"; "Black Hawk"; "Indian Removal Policy." Entries in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds. The Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 1735-41, 1749, 1761-64.

 

"American Indians: British Policies," in Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829 (3 vols., Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), 1: 118-21.

 

"The Fur Trade." Entry in Peter Eisenstadt et al, eds., The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 614-15.

 

Contribution to "A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities," ed. Joyce Ann Kievit, American Indian Quarterly 27 (2003): 41-45.

 

"Pontiac, Chief"; "Quebec Act."  Entries in Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History (2 vols., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2003), 2: 587-89, 605-6.

 

"Warfare, Indian"; "Wars with Indian Nations, Colonial Era to 1783."  Entries in Dictionary of American History (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002), vol. 8: 390-94, 395-99.

 

"Conrad Weiser Letters Shed Important New Light on Eighteenth Century Indian Diplomacy."  The Quarto: William L. Clements Library Associates Bulletin 1.6

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Klarman Hall

324 McGraw Hall
jwp35@cornell.edu
607/255-1876

Departments and programs

Links

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

Sandra Elaine Greene

Stephen ’59 and Madeline ’60 Anbinder Professor of African History

Publications

Single Authored Books:

Edited Volumes:

Selected Research Articles in Peer-Reviewed Publications since 2003:

  • "Spirit possession, ritual self-cutting and debt bondage: an analysis of the testimony of a nineteenth century West African Priest," Slavery and Abolition, Published on line 23 March 2017: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2017.1298354
  •  “(Child) Slavery in Africa as Social Death?”  Responses Past and Present,” in  After Slavery and Social Death. Edited by John Bodel and Walter Scheidel. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (Forthcoming) 
  • “African Intellectual Ideas in the Age of Legal Slavery and the Slave Trade,” with Oluwatoyin B.  Oduntan. In Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin Klein (eds.) African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa, Volume 2: Essays on Sources and Methods. Cambridge University Press. 2016.
  • “Christian Missionaries on Record: Documenting Slavery and the Slave Trade from the late Fifteenth to the early Twentieth Century,” in African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa, Volume 2: Essays on Sources and Methods. Edited with Alice Bellagamba and Martin A. Klein.  Cambridge University Press. 2016.
  • “Minority Voices: Abolitionism in West Africa,” Slavery and Abolition. (Available on-line 25 February) Hard- copy published in December issue. 2015.
  • “Experiencing Fear and Despair:  The Enslaved and Human Sacrifice in 19th  Century southern Ghana,” in African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
  • “Oral Traditions and Individuals Enslaved in Asante,” in African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
  • Modern Trokosi (Child Slavery) and the 1807 Abolition in Ghana: Connecting the Past and Present, William and Mary Quarterly. LXVI, 4 (October). 2009.
  • “Whispers and Silences: Explorations in African Oral History,” Africa Today, 50, 2, 41-54. 2003.
Klarman Hall

seg6@cornell.edu
607/2558862

Departments and programs

Keywords

gender and ethnicity in precolonial West Africa

Lawrence B. Glickman

Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies

Klarman Hall

307 McGraw Hall
lbg49@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

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