Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
@mauracunningham.bsky.social
She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
https://mauracunningham.org/
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
I enjoyed learning about the beginnings of institutonalized dentistry training in colonial India through Sahara Ahmed's Harvard Science and Technology in Asia talk yesterday 🦷
Many thanks again to Sahara and to all who joined the session!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histmed 🧪
Many thanks again to Sahara and to all who joined the session!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histmed 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I enjoyed learning about the beginnings of institutonalized dentistry training in colonial India through Sahara Ahmed's Harvard Science and Technology in Asia talk yesterday 🦷
Many thanks again to Sahara and to all who joined the session!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histmed 🧪
Many thanks again to Sahara and to all who joined the session!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histmed 🧪
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
A special home state/alma mater book talk at the University of Michigan next week.... I'll present "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" on December 2 at noon
ii.umich.edu/ii/news-even...
ii.umich.edu/ii/news-even...
Events | U-M LSA International Institute
ii.umich.edu
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A special home state/alma mater book talk at the University of Michigan next week.... I'll present "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" on December 2 at noon
ii.umich.edu/ii/news-even...
ii.umich.edu/ii/news-even...
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
Also: no talk about "earning" a big dinner, or how much exercise/deprivation will be required to "work it off."
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Also: no talk about "earning" a big dinner, or how much exercise/deprivation will be required to "work it off."
absolutely
Is “stop emailing me” an appropriate holiday away subject line, y/n
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
absolutely
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, wins 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize
The prize recognises the celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition.
For the full story, visit our website:
The prize recognises the celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition.
For the full story, visit our website:
University of Manchester Modern Languages Academic wins 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize
Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies (SALC) at the University of Manchester, has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize in the Languages and Literatures category. The Leverhulme Trust administered awards commemorate the work undertaken by Philip, Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of William Lever, founder of the Trust.The pri...
emarketing.manchester.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, wins 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize
The prize recognises the celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition.
For the full story, visit our website:
The prize recognises the celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition.
For the full story, visit our website:
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along - Drafting the Past
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
draftingthepast.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done!
my brain cells:
my brain cells:
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done!
my brain cells:
my brain cells:
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
The IOWC is holding a hybrid conference in May 2026! We are currently asking for paper submissions.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The IOWC is holding a hybrid conference in May 2026! We are currently asking for paper submissions.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
The #AAS2026 preliminary conference program is online ... start browsing the nearly *600 sessions*, planning your schedule, and seeing all that our gathering in Vancouver has to offer!
buff.ly/gItXtM1
buff.ly/gItXtM1
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Holy crap you guys, this book is 🔥
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Holy crap you guys, this book is 🔥
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Get hyped ppl! (am I doing this right?) @durba.bsky.social *The Future That Was*
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Get hyped ppl! (am I doing this right?) @durba.bsky.social *The Future That Was*
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Hmmm, a few recent Winter Olympics have taken place in Asia ... any #AsianStudies scholars have a pitch for this @nichecanada.bsky.social series?
❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hmmm, a few recent Winter Olympics have taken place in Asia ... any #AsianStudies scholars have a pitch for this @nichecanada.bsky.social series?
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
Worldly Afterlives
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations
press.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Excited to be a panelist for this! uscet.org/18th-asn-con...
18th ASN Conference – World War II 80 Years On: Remembrance and Reassessment in U.S.-China Relations – US-China Education Trust
uscet.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Excited to be a panelist for this! uscet.org/18th-asn-con...
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Had a blast speaking at High Point University yesterday abt Shinto and video games, thanks to the support of Matt Mitchell, several debts, & the @asianstudies.org NEAC Distinguished Speakers Bureau! 🎮
On my way to #AAR2025, looking forward to seeing folks there & talking EVEN MORE about games! ✈️
On my way to #AAR2025, looking forward to seeing folks there & talking EVEN MORE about games! ✈️
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Had a blast speaking at High Point University yesterday abt Shinto and video games, thanks to the support of Matt Mitchell, several debts, & the @asianstudies.org NEAC Distinguished Speakers Bureau! 🎮
On my way to #AAR2025, looking forward to seeing folks there & talking EVEN MORE about games! ✈️
On my way to #AAR2025, looking forward to seeing folks there & talking EVEN MORE about games! ✈️
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Call for applications: 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program at the Library of Congress, which supports short-term travel for research in the LOC Asian Division's collections. Application deadline January 11, 2026.
Fellowship Information | About this Reading Room | Asian Reading Room | Research Centers | Library of Congress
The Asian Division at the Library of Congress invites applications for the 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program, established through the generous gift of Florence Tan Moeson, who…
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Call for applications: 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program at the Library of Congress, which supports short-term travel for research in the LOC Asian Division's collections. Application deadline January 11, 2026.
Reposted by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
ageofrevolutions.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...