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

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.

 

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.

 

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

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