New Editor at Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Tom Mullaney
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Dissertation Reviews is glad to welcome Brenton Sullivan as new editor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. We also wish to express our sincere gratitude to Nicole Willock and Nancy Lin for their amazing work on this field. If you are interested in having your dissertation reviewed, please fill out the Review Application Form. You can reach Brenton at brenton.sullivan@dissertationreviews.org.

Introducing Our Field Editor

Brenton Sullivan is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium and the Dept. of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the Project Manager of the Database of Religious History (directed by Prof. Edward Slingerland). Apart from this, he works closely with Chinese and Tibetan historical documents in researching the evolution of large and complex religious institutions on the Tibetan Plateau. He also works with relational databases and other digital tools to foment cooperation and advances in research in Tibetan Studies and Religious Studies more generally. He values above all else being with his wife and son, and he frequently sermonizes to unsuspecting audiences on the importance of knowing and befriending one’s neighbors.

Image: Mantras carved into rock in Tibet. 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.