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

Mayer Juni

Bruce Slovin Assistant Professor

Klarman Hall

132 McGraw Hall
mj472@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Casey Schmitt

Assistant Professor

Publications

The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530-1690 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).

"'Betwixt Ye Two Rivers': Trafficking and Colonization in Early Seventeenth-Century St. Christopher," Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 103, no. 2 (May, 2023): 283-312.

"'Brought from the Palenques': Race, Subjecthood, and Warfare in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean," Early American Studies, Vol. 20, no. 4 (Fall, 2022): 695-713.

“Centering Spanish Jamaica: Regional Competition, Informal Trade, and the English Invasion, 1620-1662,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 76, no. 4 (October,  2019): 1-30.

“Pirates, Planting, and the Rights of Mankind in Seventeenth-Century Tortuga,” The Latin Americanist, Vol. 61, No. 4 (December, 2017): 584-99.

“Virtue in Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, and the Shape of Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean,” Early American Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 2015): 80-110.

Klarman Hall

435 McGraw Hall
cs2437@cornell.edu

Education

PhD in Early American History, William and Mary;

M.A. in Colonialism and Imperialism, University of Utah

Departments and programs

Keywords

 

  • Empires and Colonialism
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social
  • Comparative and Transnational

 

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

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

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.

 

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 Cambridge History of Global Diasporas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
  • (co-editor) Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023).
  • (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

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