Introducing Stefania De Petris: Project Coordinator at DR

Tom Mullaney
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Over the past five years, Dissertation Reviews has grown in ways none of us could have expected. As we extend more and more into scholarly events – both online and off – now more than ever we need a talented scholar and editor to help coordinate all of our many exciting initiatives that extend beyond the 20-plus review series you have come to know.

It gives us great joy to introduce Stefania De Petris, the newest member of the DR team, and the first to focus entirely on the big picture. Stefania is already spearheading a number of exciting projects, as well as working with the entire editorial team to help them bring their initiatives to life. Stay tuned, and look forward to learning about workshops, conferences, roundtables, and more.

To learn about the entire Dissertation Reviews Editorial Committee, please visit this page.

– Tom Mullaney, Editor-in-Chief

Stefania De Petris is Project Coordinator at Dissertation Reviews. Her own background is in Sociology, having received her PhD in 2009 from the University of Padua in Italy. She is Co-Managing Editor of the journal Social Justice, and in the past few years has worked as a translator, copyeditor, and project manager for several academic and independent publishers in Italy and the United States.

Image: Juggler. Photograph by Thomas Janke. Wikimedia Commons.

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.