Justine Modica
Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow
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
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.
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.
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.
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
- Archaeology Program
- Classics
- History
- Jewish Studies Program
- Medieval Studies Program
- Near Eastern Studies
- Religious Studies Program
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
(September 1996): 8-9.
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).
Departments and programs
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
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:
- Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision-making in the Age of Abolition. Indiana University Press. 2017.
- West African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from 19th and early 20th Century Ghana. Indiana University Press. 2011.
- Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana. Indiana University Press, 2002. Finalist for the 2003 Herskovits Prize (the best book on Africa published in the previous year in the fields of History, Political Science, Art History, Anthropology and Literature).
- Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe, Heinemann Books, Social History in Africa Series. 1996. Honorable Mention by the 1997 Herskovits Prize Committee American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) selected book for e-publication as a high quality text in the humanities that is of continuing importance for teaching and research.
Edited Volumes:
- African Slaves, African Masters: Histories, Memories, Legacies. Edited with Alice Bellagamba and Martin A. Klein. Africa World Press.2017
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Volume 2: Essays on Sources and Methods. Edited with Alice Bellagamba and Martin A. Klein. Cambridge University Press. 2016.
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Vol. 1. Edited with Alice Bellagamba and Martin A. Klein. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
- The Bitter Legacy: African Slavery Past and Present. Edited with Alice Bellagamba and Martin A. Klein. Markus Wiener Press, 2013.
- New Encyclopedia of Africa, 5 volumes. Thomson-Gale. Associate Editor with seven other associate editors under the editorial leadership of John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller. Winner of the Conover-Porter Prize, awarded for the most outstanding achievement in African bibliography and reference works published during the previous two years, by the Council of Africana Librarians, African Studies Association. 2008.
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.
Departments and programs
Keywords
gender and ethnicity in precolonial West Africa
Lawrence B. Glickman
Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies
Raymond B. Craib
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History
Publications
Books:
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (PM Press/Spectre, 2022). Spanish translation forthcoming with Prometeo Editorial (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and poetry in interwar Chile (Oxford University Press, 2016) Published in translation as: Santiago Subversivo 1920: Anarquistas, universitarios y la muerte de José Domingo Gómez Rojas. Trans. by Pablo Abufom Silva, LOM Ediciones, Chile, 2017
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke University Press, 2004). Published in translation as: México Cartográfico: Una historia de límites fijos y paisajes fugitivos. Trans. by Rossana Reyes, UNAM/Inst. de Geografía/CISAN, Mexico, 2014
Martirio, memoria, historia: Sobre los subversivos y la expulsión de Casimiro Barrios, 1920 (Santiago: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Serie Signos de la Memoria, 2015)
Edited books:
No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms [co-edited with Barry Maxwell] (PM Press, 2015). German translation, edition assemblage, forthcoming.
Education
BA, History, Eastern Michigan University, 1990
MA, Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994
PhD, History, Yale University, 2001