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Kristin Mulready-Stone, Ph.D.

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Biography

Kristin Mulready-Stone is professor and Director of the Writing and Teaching Excellence Center. She earned her PhD in Chinese History from Yale University and researches twentieth-century Chinese youth organizations in wartime. Her publications include her book “Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism, and Japanese Collaboration,” as well as chapters in edited volumes on the YMCA in Shanghai, 1931-1942, the Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Chinese Youth Movement, World War II in China, and a forthcoming chapter on China’s role in World War I. In 2023-24 she is Visiting Professor and Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army War College.

Contact Information

(401) 856-5291

Areas of Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Cold War
  • Southeast Asia
  • Vietnam
  • Vietnam War
  • WWII

Professional Highlights

2023

U.S. Army War College

Visiting Professor and Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History.
2023

U.S. Naval War College

Professor and Director of the Writing and Teaching Excellence Center.
2018

U.S. Naval War College

Associate Professor and Director of the Writing and Teaching Excellence Center.
2016

U.S. Naval War College

Associate Professor of the Writing Center.
2015

Manhattan, KS

Interim Director, Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies, Kansas State University.
2015

Manhattan, KS

Became Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University after earning tenure. Taught courses in the History of Modern China, East Asia, Vietnam, Imperialism, and World History.
2009

New Haven, CT

Earned Ph.D. in the History of Modern China, Yale University.
2008

Manhattan, KS

After teaching at Kansas State University for several years as an instructor, hired full-time on the tenure track as Assistant Professor of History.
2004

Manhattan, KS

Assistant Director, Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies, Kansas State University.
2002

Manhattan, KS

Coordinator of Grants and Programs, Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies, Kansas State University.

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 2009, Chinese History

M.A., Yale University, 1997, Chinese History

B.A., Tufts University, 1992, East Asian Studies

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Research Contributions and Publications

"Chinese Manpower Contributions and Dashed Hopes in the First World War and Versailles," in The Routledge History of the First World War, edited by Paul Bartrop.
Forthcoming
2024

"The Crucial Phase of the China Theatre: The War of Resistance Against Japan, 1937-1938." In The Routledge History of the Second World War, edited by Paul Bartrop.
Routledge, 2021

"China Divided and at War, 1937-1945," in The Routledge History of the Second World War, edited by Paul Bartrop.
Routledge, 2021

"Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Chinese Youth Movement," in The Wider Arc of Revolution, part of the Russia's Great War and Revolution Series, eds. Choi Chatterjee, Steven Marks, Steve Sabol, and Mary Neuberger.
Slavica Publishers, 2019.

“Character Conservancy in Shanghai’s Emergency: The YMCA in Shanghai, 1931-1942.” in The YMCA in Wartime: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars.
London and New York: Lexington Books, 2018

Book Review of China’s Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or Community? September 2016
Yong Wook Lee and Key-young Son, eds.
London and New York: Routledge, 2014

Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism, and Japanese Collaboration.
Routledge, 2015

External Memberships and Associations

American Historical Society

Association for Asian Studies

Chinese Military History Society

International Writing Centers Association

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