Thomas S. Mullaney

Thomas Shawn Mullaney (born 1978) is an American sinologist. He is a Guggenheim fellow. ^[1] He is professor of history at Stanford University, working on technology, race, and ethnicity in China. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Mullaney received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 2006 after completing a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Madeleine Zelin. ^[7] His dissertation became the basis of his first book, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, which received the 2011 American Historical Association Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject.” Benedict Anderson wrote a foreword for the book. ^[8]

In 2006, Mullaney joined the faculty of Stanford as assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012, and to full professor in 2019.

His 2017 book The Chinese Typewriter: A History won the John K. Fairbank Prize, the Lewis Mumford Award, and Honorable Mention by the Joseph Levenson Book Prize. ^{[9] [10]}

Education

• PhD, Columbia University, 2006 ^[2]
• MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000 ^[2]
• BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999 ^[2]

Selected publications and exhibitions

Monographs

• Coming to terms with the nation: ethnic classification in modern China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, ISBN   978-0-520-26278-2
• The Chinese typewriter: a history, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, ISBN   978-0-262-03636-8
• With Rea, Christopher G. (2022), Where research begins: choosing a research project that matters to you (and the world), University of Chicago Press, ISBN   978-0-226-81735-4
• The Chinese computer: a global history of the information age, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024, ISBN   978-0-262-04751-7

Museum exhibitions

• Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age (Museum of Chinese in America, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum) ^[11]

Edited volumes and special issues

• With Leibold, James; Gros, Stéphane; Bussche, Eric Vanden, eds. (2012), Critical Han studies: the history, representation, and identity of China's majority, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN   978-0-984-59098-8
• The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2019.
• With Peters, Benjamin; Hicks, Mar; Philip, Kavita, eds. (2021), Your computer is on fire, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN   978-0-262-53973-9

Awards and honors

• 2021 Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology & Society ^[12]
• 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
• 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship ^[13]
• 2018 The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
• 2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar [Project: Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia); Duration: 2016-2018]
• 2013 Abbot Payson Usher Prize [For “The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism.”] ^[14]
• 2012-14 National Science Foundation 3-Year Grant (Science, Technology and Society Award)
• 2011 American Historical Association Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject”
• 2010-12 Annenberg Faculty Fellow

References

1. "Thomas S. Mullaney". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
2. "Thomas Mullaney". Stanford Department of History. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
3. Aeon, Thomas S. Mullaney (2016-09-14). "America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
4. "Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
5. Crichton, Danny (2021-06-29). "The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
6. "How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard | Psyche Ideas". Psyche. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
7. Mullaney, Thomas (2006). Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification and Scientific Statecraft in Modern China, 1928–1954 (Thesis).
8. Mullaney, Thomas (2011). Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press.
9. "John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
10. "AAS 2019 Book Prizes | H-Asia | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
11. "What's On – Museum of Chinese in America" . Retrieved 2023-03-21.
12. Breiner, Andrew (2021-09-24). "Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs in Residence | Insights". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
13. Foundation, Mellon. "New Directions Fellowships Recipients". Mellon Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
14. "Stanford historian wins prize for work at intersection of history, technology | Stanford Humanities Center". shc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-21.