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Korean Studies Dissertation Reviews

Tom Mullaney
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the forthcoming launch of “Korean Studies Dissertation Reviews,” set to go live in Fall 2011. In the tradition of CHDR, the new site will feature friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended, unpublished dissertations in Korean Studies, including dissertations in the social sciences and history. More than ten dissertations are currently under review, with more to come.

Introducing Our New Editors

Nancy Abelmann is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Abelmann’s department page can be found here.

Laura Nelson is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at California State University East Bay.

Professor Nelson’s department page can be found here.

If you are interested in reviewing for the new site, or having your dissertation reviewed, please contact the editors at dissertationreviews [at] gmail [dot] com

Post written by: Tom Mullaney

Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at Stanford University, having received his Ph.D. in History in 2006 from Columbia University. He is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (University of California Press, 2011, Foreword by Benedict Anderson). This book charts the history of China’s 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie), a joint social scientific-Communist state expedition wherein a group of ethnologists, linguists, and Party cadres traveled to the most ethnically diverse province in the People’s Republic to determine which minority communities would and would not be officially recognized by the state. He is also principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority, a pathbreaking volume that examines China’s majority ethnonational group. He is currently writing the first-ever global history of the Chinese typewriter, one of the most significant and misunderstood technological innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.