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

Mayer Juni

Bruce Slovin Assistant Professor

Klarman Hall
132 McGraw Hall
mj472@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Cristina Florea

Assistant Professor

Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles

"Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe," Past and Present, 21 February 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab041

"New Perspectives in German Studies: A View From the Margins," New German Critique, November 2023. 

Book Reviews and Review Essays

Review of Patrice Dabrowski, The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2021), History: Reviews of New Books, 50(5), pp.83-84.  

Review of Astrid Eckert, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands (OUP, 2019), H-Borderlands.

"Hidden Metropolis: Modernization and Urban Culture in Eastern Europe," Journal of Urban History, January 2020. 

Review of Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei, eds. Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 (University of Toronto Press, 2017), Austrian History Yearbook, April 2019.

Public Writing

"Ukraine's Long Self-Determination," New York Review of Books, December 7, 2022. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/12/07/ukraines-long-self-determination/ 

“The Crisis in Ukraine Has Disturbing Echoes of the 1930s,” TIME, February 28, 2022. https://time.com/6152294/ukraine-invasion-europe-1930s/

“Putin Knows That Controlling History Is the Key to Total Power,” CNN Opinion, April 4, 2022. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/opinions/putin-destroying-ukraine-history-archives-florea/index.html

“Putin’s Perilous Imperial Dream: Why Empires and Nativism Don’t Mix,” Foreign Affairs, May 10, 2022. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2022-05-10/putins-perilous-imperial-dream

Klarman Hall
McGraw Hall
cf476@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University 

M.A., Princeton University 

B.A., Williams College 

Departments and programs

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.

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.

 

Eric Tagliacozzo

John Stambaugh Professor of History

Publications

Books:

  • (author), In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).

  • (co-editor), The Hajj: Pilgrimage in Islam (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
  • (co-editor), Asia Inside Out: Changing Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015).
  • (co-editor), Asia Inside Out: Connected Places (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). 
  • (co-editor), Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019).
  • (co-editor), Burmese Lives: Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
  • (editor), Producing Indonesia: The State of the Field of Indonesian Studies (Cornell: SEAP Publications, 2014).
  • (author) The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). 368 pp.
  •  (co-editor) Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities and Networks in Southeast Asia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011).
  • (co-editor) Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009). 
  • (co-editor), The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
  • (editor), Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009).
  • (author) Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). 437 pp.**  Winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, 2007 

Links to All Books Mentioned Above

Course Rotation:

•  HIST 1700:  “The History of Exploration”

•  HIST 1402:  “Global Islam”

•  HIST 4515:  “The Pacific Horizon”

•  HIST 1750:  “Routes: Global Histories”

•  HIST 4922:  “Ocean: The Sea in Global History”

•  HIST 2430:  “The History of Things”

•  HIST 4100:  “Archipelago: Worlds of Indonesia”

•  HIST 2280:  “The Indian Ocean World”

•  HIST 3950:  “Monsoon Kingdoms Pre-modern SE Asia  to the 18th Century”

•  HIST 3960:  “Transnational Local: History of Modern Southeast Asia”

•  HIST 4490:  “Peddlers, Pirates, Prostitutes: Subaltern Histories of SE Asia”

•  HIST 2840:  "Southeast Asia in the World System, 1500-Present"

•  HIST 4510:  "Crime and Diaspora in Southeast Asia 1750-1950"

•  HIST 1910:  “The History of Modern Asia”

•  HIST 4000:  “Honors Undergraduate Historiography Seminar”

•  HIST 7090:  “Pro-Seminar for Graduate Historiography”

Klarman Hall
346 McGraw Hall
et54@cornell.edu
607/254-6564

Education

  • PhD History, Yale University, 1999
  • BA History, Haverford College, 1989

Departments and programs

Links

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.

Klarman Hall
mm2492@cornell.edu

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.

 

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

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

Klarman Hall
432 McGraw Hall
mariacristinagarcia@cornell.edu
607/255-8862

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

BA Georgetown University

Departments and programs

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.

 

Klarman Hall
305 McGraw Hall
rbc23@cornell.edu
607/255-6745

Education

BA, History, Eastern Michigan University, 1990

MA, Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994

PhD, History, Yale University, 2001

Departments and programs

Links

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