Thomas Shawn Mullaney (born 1978) is an American

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

. He is a Guggenheim fellow. He is professor of history at

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, working on technology, race, and ethnicity in China. Mullaney received his Ph.D. in history from

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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. His dissertation became the basis of his first book, ''Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China'', which received the 2011

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Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject.”

Benedict Anderson Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book ''Imagined Communities'', which e ...

wrote a foreword for the book. His 2017 book ''The Chinese Typewriter: A History'' won the

John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. F ...

, the Lewis Mumford Award, and Honorable Mention by the

Joseph Levenson Book Prize Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two English-language books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. According to ...

. 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,

, 2006 * MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000 * BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999

Selected publications and exhibitions

Monographs

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Museum exhibitions

* Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age (

Museum of Chinese in America The Museum of Chinese in America (; abbreviated MOCA) is a museum in New York City which exhibits Chinese American history. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education and cultural institution that presents the living history, heritage, culture, and ...

, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum)

Edited volumes and special issues

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The Chinese Deathscape
Grave Reform in Modern China''. Stanford University Press, 2019. *

Awards and honors

* 2021

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

John W. Kluge Center The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites and welcomes scholars to the Library of Congress to conduct research and interact with policymakers and the public. It also manages the Kluge Scholars' Council and administers the Kluge ...

Chair in Technology & Society * 2018

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

* 2018

(for ''The Chinese Typewriter: A History'') * 2018

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, commonly known as the Mellon Foundation, is a New York City-based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger ...

New Directions Fellowship * 2018 The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics (for ''The Chinese Typewriter: A History'') * 2016

Sawyer Seminar roject: Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia); Duration: 2016-2018* 2013 Abbot Payson Usher Prize or “The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism''.''”ref> * 2012-14

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

3-Year Grant (Science, Technology and Society Award) * 2011

Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject” * 2010-12 Annenberg Faculty Fellow

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mullaney, Thomas Shawn 1978 births Living people 21st-century American historians American sinologists Columbia University alumni Historians of race relations History of science and technology in China Historians of technology Johns Hopkins University alumni Stanford University Department of History faculty