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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.[9] 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.[10][11] 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.
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- PhD, Columbia University, 2006
- MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000
- BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
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)[12]
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
- 2021 Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology & Society[13]
- 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
- 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship[14]
- 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.”][15]
- 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
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