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, titled "Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification and Scientific Statecraft in Modern China, 1928-1954," under the supervision of Madeleine Zelin. ^{[7] [8]}

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.^{[ citation needed ]} 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]} 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.

Education

• PhD, Columbia University, 2006
• MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000
• BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999

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 | Department of History". history.stanford.edu. 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 (2011). Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press. pp. xxi.
8. Mullaney, Thomas (2006). Coming to Terms with the Nation: ethnic classification and scientific statecraft in modern China, 1928-1954 (Thesis).
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.