Thomas S. Mullaney
{{Short description|American sinologist (born 1978)}}
Thomas Shawn Mullaney (born 1978) is an American sinologist. He is a Guggenheim fellow.{{Cite web |title=Thomas S. Mullaney |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/thomas-s-mullaney/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}} He is professor of history at Stanford University, working on technology, race, and ethnicity in China.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Mullaney {{!}} Department of History |url=https://history.stanford.edu/people/thomas-mullaney |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=history.stanford.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Aeon |first=Thomas S. Mullaney |date=2016-09-14 |title=America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/autocomplete-was-invented-80-years-ago/499955/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/31/1025599/history-first-chinese-digital-computer-fonts/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Crichton |first=Danny |date=2021-06-29 |title=The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/29/the-engineering-daring-that-led-to-the-first-chinese-personal-computer/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard {{!}} Psyche Ideas |url=https://psyche.co/ideas/how-a-solitary-prisoner-decoded-chinese-for-the-qwerty-keyboard |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Psyche |language=en}}
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.{{Cite book |last=Mullaney |first=Thomas |title=Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China |publisher=University of California Press |year=2011 |pages=xxi}}{{Cite thesis |title=Coming to Terms with the Nation: ethnic classification and scientific statecraft in modern China, 1928-1954 |url=https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5884989?counter=5 |date=2006 |first=Thomas |last=Mullaney}}
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.{{Cite journal |title=Google Books }} 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.{{Cite web |title=John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients {{!}} AHA |url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/john-k-fairbank-prize-recipients |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=www.historians.org}}{{Cite web |title=AAS 2019 Book Prizes {{!}} H-Asia {{!}} H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/3613086/aas-2019-book-prizes |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=networks.h-net.org}} 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
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- PhD, Columbia University, 2006
- MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000
- BA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Selected publications and exhibitions
= Monographs =
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- {{Citation |last=Mullaney |first=Thomas S. |title=Coming to terms with the nation: ethnic classification in modern China |year=2011 |author-mask=0 |place=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-26278-2}}
- {{Citation |last=Mullaney |first=Thomas S. |title=The Chinese typewriter: a history |year=2017 |author-mask=0 |place=Cambridge, MA |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-03636-8}}
- {{Citation |last=Mullaney |first=Thomas S. |title=Where research begins: choosing a research project that matters to you (and the world) |year=2022 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-81735-4 |last2=Rea |first2=Christopher G. |author-link2=Christopher G. Rea |author1-mask=With}}
- {{Citation |last=Mullaney |first=Thomas S. |title=The Chinese computer: a global history of the information age |year=2024 |author-mask=0 |place=Cambridge, MA |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-04751-7}}
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= Museum exhibitions =
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- Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age (Museum of Chinese in America, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum){{Cite web |title=What's On – Museum of Chinese in America |url=https://www.mocanyc.org/event/radical-machines/ |access-date=2023-03-21}}
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= Edited volumes and special issues =
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- {{Citation |title=Critical Han studies: the history, representation, and identity of China's majority |year=2012 |editor-last=Mullaney |editor-first=Thomas S. |editor-last2=Leibold |editor-first2=James |editor-last3=Gros |editor-first3=Stéphane |editor-last4=Bussche |editor-first4=Eric Vanden |place=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-984-59098-8 |editor1-mask=With}}
- [https://chinesedeathscape.org/ The Chinese Deathscape]: Grave Reform in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2019.
- {{Citation |title=Your computer is on fire |year=2021 |editor-last=Mullaney |editor-first=Thomas S. |editor-last2=Peters |editor-first2=Benjamin |editor-last3=Hicks |editor-first3=Mar |editor-last4=Philip |editor-first4=Kavita |place=Cambridge, MA |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-53973-9 |editor1-mask=With}}
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Awards and honors
- 2021 Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology & Society{{Cite web |last=Breiner |first=Andrew |date=2021-09-24 |title=Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs in Residence {{!}} Insights |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/kluge/2021/09/kluge-center-welcomes-new-chairs-in-residence/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=The Library of Congress}}
- 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize (for The Chinese Typewriter: A History)
- 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Mellon |title=New Directions Fellowships Recipients |url=https://www.mellon.org/programs/higher-learning/regranting-programs/new-directions-fellowships/new-directions-fellowships-recipients/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Mellon Foundation |language=en}}
- 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.”]{{Cite web |title=Stanford historian wins prize for work at intersection of history, technology {{!}} Stanford Humanities Center |url=https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/news/stanford-historian-wins-prize-work-intersection-history-technology |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=shc.stanford.edu}}
- 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
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