Thomas S. Mullaney Explained

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.

Education

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

Selected publications and exhibitions

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

• • The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2019.

Awards and honors

• 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

Notes and References

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