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See You Next Year + A Look Back on Season 3

Tom Mullaney
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Season Three of Dissertation Reviews comes to a close this week, with our final posts of the season going live this Friday. It has been a simply momentous year. We welcomed on board 17 completely new or expanded fields, we paired up with 600 new friends on our Dissertation Reviews Facebook community, and we published more than 15 times as often as in 2010-11, from a total of 23 pieces in our first season to 352 this season. This month alone, we have featured three times as many dissertations as we did in all of 2010-11. For more of our statistics, please check out “Our Call, Our Stats.” We are deeply grateful for our community of support, and extremely proud to spotlight even more cutting-edge early-career scholarship. As always, if you are interested in being reviewed, serving as a reviewer, or applying to be a field editor for an entirely new field, you know where to find us. We’ll see you next year.

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.