Kelly Anne Hammond Assistant Professor University of Arkansas, Department of History Email: [email protected] Twitter: @kellyahammond
EDUCATION
PhD, East Asian History, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2015. Advisors: James Millward, Carol Benedict, Jordan Sand, and Jonathan Lipman
MA, East Asian History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2007. Advisors: Jacob Eyferth, Timothy Cheek, André Gerolymatos, and Luke Clossey
BA, History and Political Science, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Québec, 2002.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
University of Arkansas
2019-2020 Dean’s Fellow, Fulbright College 2019 History Department, Summer research grant 2019 History Department, Faculty Research Development Grant 2018; 2019 Enhancing Asian Studies Development Grant (from NEH grant) 2017-2019 Asian Studies Program, Travel Grant 2018 E. Mitchell and Barbara Singleton Endowed Faculty Development Award 2015-2019 King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, Travel Grant 2016 U of A Vice-Provost for Research, Arts & Humanities SEED Research Grant 2016; 2017 U of A Teaching Commendation for pre-tenure faculty 2016 U of A Teaching Faculty Support Center faculty development travel grant 2015; 2016 U of A Provost Travel Assistance Grant 2015-2018 U of A Fulbright College Travel Assistance Grant
Other Sources
2019-2021 Public Intellectual Program, National Committee on US-China Relations 2019 Kluge Fellow, Kluge Center at the Library of Congress (8 months) 2017-2018 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017 Central Asian Studies Society Conference Travel Grant, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 2017 The American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant 2016 Association for Asian Studies North East Asia Council, Research Grant, Japan 2016 Center for Chinese Studies, Summer research grant (three months), Taiwan
1 2015 Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Conference travel grant 2014-2015 Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Research Fellow 2014 Association for Asian Studies and the China Inner Asia Council, Research Grant 2013-2014 Georgetown Department of History, Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellow 2013; 2014 Georgetown Graduate School Graduate student conference travel grant 2008-2013 Georgetown Graduate School, Five-year Graduate Fellowship 2008-2012 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Doctoral Fellowship 2012 Georgetown Graduate School, summer research grant 2011-2012 China Scholarship Council, Research Fellow, Beijing Normal University 2011 Georgetown Department of History, Graduate student teaching award 2010 Georgetown Department of History, Piepho summer research award 2009 Middlebury College, Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (for Japanese) 2005-2007 Simon Fraser University, Graduate student fellowship 2006-2007 China Scholarship Council, Language Fellowship, East China Normal University 2002 Bishop’s University, Purple Heart Award (community service award)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
August 2015- Assistant Professor, East Asian History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Courses taught (2-2): Modern China; Islam in Asia; Mao and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; WWII in the Pacific; Modern Japan; FASCISTS (honors signature series); Asian Masculinities/Asian Femininities
2013-2015 Instructor, Georgetown University. Courses taught: Spies, Secret Police, and Detectives in East Asia: Interlocutors between Nation and Empire in the Twentieth Century; The history of the Pacific World.
2009-2013 Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University. Courses included: China until the Qing Dynasty; China from the Qing Dynasty; Central Eurasia in World History; Modern Japan; World History until 1500; World History from 1500.
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University. Courses included: China until 1800; China from 1800; The history of the British Empire.
EDITORAL WORK
March 2019- Editorial Board, Twentieth-Century China
2016-2019 Book Review Editor, Twentieth-Century China
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
2012-2015 Georgetown Asian Studies Program with the National Resource Center Developed curriculum to enhance exposure and knowledge about East Asia for middle school and high school teachers; gave frequent lectures to high school teachers about integrating the history of the Silk Road and East Asian history into the AP world history curriculum. Please see: http://www.eastasianrc.org/
2010-2012 Cengage Learning
2 Curated content and wrote introductions for the primary source accompanier for the textbook, East Asia: A Cultural, Social and Political History of Modern East Asia by Patricia Ebrey, Anne Walthall, and James Palais (Cengage, 2009).
PUBLICATIONS
Under Contract
Book Manuscript, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire (UNC Press, Islamic Civilizations and Muslim Networks Series, Fall 2020)
“Muslim interactions between China, Central Asia, and Japan,” in Handbook of Islam in Asia, edited by Chiara Formichi (Routledge, Spring 2021)
In Progress
“Anti-Communist Chinese Muslims: Help Take Back the Mainland,” Contributor to translation project: Muslims in China: Primary Sources in Translation, edited by Michael Gibbs Hill and Kristian Petersen
Journal Article, “Cold War Mosque: The Taipei Mosque and the instrumentalization of Islam in East Asia”
Journal Article, “The ‘right’ kind of Muslims: Institutionalized Islam, the Red Crescent, and deciding who is worthy of aid”
Peer-reviewed
07/2017 “Managing Muslims: Imperial Japan, Islamic policy, and Axis Connections during WWII” Journal of Global History
Book Reviews/Encyclopedia Entries
Forthcoming Book Review of David R. Ambaras, “Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire,” (Oxford UP, 2018) The English Historical Review
01/2019 Book Review of Di Wang, “Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain,” (Stanford UP, 2018) China Review International
05/2018 Book Review of Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice,” (UNC Press, 2017), Arkansas Historical Quarterly
10/2017 Book Review of Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s “Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands,” Canadian Journal of History
09/2017 Book Review of Matthew Erie’s “China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law,” Journal of Law and Religion
3 04/2017 “Sino-Muslims and the Japanese in WWII” Encyclopedia of War and Religion (ABC-Clio, February 2017).
09/2016 Book review of Ali Wekly’s “A Captive Audience: Voices of Japanese American youth interned in Arkansas,” in Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Fall, 2016).
12/2015 Contributed two entries (Islam and the Silk Road; Islam in China) to the new Encyclopaedia of Islam (M.E. Sharpe, 2015).
04/2011 Book review of Jay Dautcher’s “Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community,” in The Arab Studies Journal (Spring, 2011).
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
Invited Talks and Invited Workshops
08/2019 Academic Exchange International Relations Mission to Israel, Gaza and West Bank, invited for ten-day trip with nineteen other scholars to participate in intellectual exchange about situation in Levant
06/2019 ACLS Henry Luce Foundation early career China Studies workshop, New York
04/2019 “Cold War Mosque: the Taipei Mosque,” George Mason University, Center for Global Islamic Studies.
02/2019 “FASCISTS,” Public lecture, Fayetteville, Arkansas
02/2019 “Beyond Oil: rethinking Japanese tea exports and larger plans for empire during World War II,” UC Irvine, How tea travels workshops.
11/2018 “Tea time: tea exports from Japan to the Middle East during World War II,” University of Kansas Asian Studies Speakers’ Series, Lawrence
09/2018 “State building and un-building: Japanese efforts to undermine the Chinese nationalist efforts to incorporate minorities during WWII,” École des Haute Études en Science Sociales, Paris, France, State-building through Political Disunity in Republican China, two-day conference, invited (ten participants)
05/2018 “Working Group on Islamism and the International Order,” Hoover Institute, Washington DC, invited (fifteen participants) for one-day symposium/discussion
09/2017 “Beyond the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere: Japanese imaginations of empire and expanding markets in the Middle East during WWII” Deutscher Orientalistentag Asien, Afrika and Europa, Jena, Germany. Invited.
06/2017 “The Axis Alliance in Global Perspective,” University of Konstanz, Germany, invited for four-day workshop
4 08/2016 “Nationalist responses to perceived Japanese policy successes among Muslim populations in occupied China” Center for Chinese Studies, invited talk to discuss research findings while in Taiwan (delivered in Chinese)
07/2016 “Currying favors: Sino-Muslims, the GMD, the Japanese and converging interests” Academia Sinica, invited talk (delivered in Chinese)
04/2016 "Sinophone and Middle Eastern Crossings". Invited to participate in a two-day colloquium at the University of South Carolina.
11/2015 “Managing Muslims: Japan’s quest to legitimize itself in the Islamic world through connections with Italy and Germany in WWII,” Axis Empires: Towards a Global History of Fascist Imperialism. Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig- Maximilians Universitat, Munich (invited for two-day colloquium).
10/2014 “The hajj from China during WWII,” SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey. Invited talk.
Conferences: Chair or Discussant
08/2019 “Islam and AI in Xinjiang: local issues with global implications,” discussion moderator, Library of Congress
11/2018 “Hui Muslims in the Qing Dynasty: Identity, Religion and Culture,” discussant, Co-sponsored Session: Chinese Religions Unit and Study of Islam Unit, American Association of Religions, Denver CO
10/2018 “Uyghurs in the post-9/11 world,” co-chair discussant, Central Eurasian Studies Society, University of Pittsburgh
Conferences: Panel Participant
03/2019 “Teaching about Ethnic and Religious Violence in Asia,” Columbia University Teaching Academy Roundtable, Association for Asian Studies, invited presenter and participant
07/2018 “Prelude to the Axis: Chinese pilgrims on a Japanese-sponsored hajj in 1938,” Paper presenter, International Borderland Studies, Vienna and Budapest
04/2018 “Bactrian Camels to Belt Road—One Belt, One Road in Historical and Contemporary Perspective” University of Arkansas, Symposium organizer and participant
01/2018 “Prelude to the Axis: Chinese pilgrims on a Japanese-sponsored hajj in 1938,” American Historical Association, Washington, DC. Panel co-organizer: “Beyond Nationalism: Globalizing China’s World War II”
11/2017 “They do drink tea, just not like us”: Imperial Japan, perceptions of tea drinkers in the Middle East and North Africa, and expanding global markets during WWII, Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC.
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06/2017 “Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan in WWII—Connections and convergences in Central Asia,” CESS, Kyrgyzstan (awarded travel grant to participate)
10/2016 “Lessons for Empire: Japanese Language Policies in Islamic Schools in China during WWII,” Association for Asian Studies Southwest Conference, panelist
09/2016 2016 Atlanta Teachers and Technology Conference, attendee
03/2016 “China’s Muslims and anti-Soviet propaganda produced by the Japanese,” Seattle, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Panel organizer and discussant.
09/2015 “Teaching about Asia in Arkansas,” Arkansas Association of College History Teachers
03/2015 “Valuable and visible minorities: on being a Chinese Muslim during WWII,” Chicago, Association for Asian Studies.
02/2015 “Legacies of Japanese policies on minorities in the People’s Republic of China,” New Orleans, International Studies Association.
11/2014 “Winning Hearts and Minds? Japan’s Muslim policy in North China during the China War,” Harvard University, Crossroads of Asia Conference.
03/2013 “Learning Japanese?! Sino-Muslim education and the Japanese Empire in North China,” Munster, Germany, Deutscher Orientalist/German Oriental Studies Conference.
11/2012 “Why shouldn’t they learn Japanese? Chinese Muslim education and the Japanese Empire in the China War,” Bloomington, Indiana, Central Eurasian Studies Society.
06/2011 “The Conundrum of Collaboration: rethinking the role of Chinese Muslims during the Sino-Japanese War,” Beijing, Minzu Daxue (National Minorities University).
07/2010 “Unpacking Collaboration: Chinese Muslims during the China War,” Tokyo, Chūō University.
05/2009 “Why collaborate? Sino-Muslims and the Japanese in WWII,” Washington DC, Washington DC Graduate Student Symposium.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEW
07/2019 “The Portraits of a Heroine: Huang Bamei and the Politics of Wartime History in China and Taiwan, 1930-1960,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
6 03/2019 “Civil War on the Central Plains: Mobilization, Militarization, and the End of Nationalist Rule in Zhengzhou, 1947-1948,” Twentieth-Century China 09/2018 “From India to China: Chinese Muslim Reformist Thought and the Ahmadiyya Movement during the Republican Period,” Journal or Asian Studies
06/2018 “Transnationalism during the May Fourth Era: Chinese Intellectuals, Workers, and Students in France” Twentieth-Century China
02/2018 Stewart Gordon, A History of the World in Seven Themes, Volume 1, First Edition (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)
12/2017 “Prisoners in Exile: Missionary Mobility as Containment and Integration in East and Southeast Asia, 1951-1969,” Yearbook of Transnational History
ONLINE PROJECTS/INTERVIEWS/PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
07/2019 Interview with Wu Huizhong, Reuters correspondent in Beijing. Article about halal food and restaurants in Beijing
06/2019 Podcast interview about Islam and Japanese imperialism with Steve Baumann, host of Hour of History
06/2019 “Reconfiguring geopolitics in the era of the surveillance state: the Uyghurs, the Chinese Party-State, and the reshaping of Middle East politics,” The Caravan (Hoover Institute)
06/2019 “Assessing and reacting to what is happening to Muslims in China,” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/the-history-of-chinas-muslims-and-whats-behind- their-persecution-117365
04/2019 “Conversations: Islamophobia in China,” ChinaFile http://www.chinafile.com/conversation/islamophobia-china
01/2019 Interview with Peter Martin, Bloomberg China correspondent
10/2018 “China’s bad old days are back: Why Xi Jinping is ramping up repression,” Foreign Affairs, co-authored with Rian Thum and Jeff Wasserstrom
09/2018 “Global implications for China’s crackdown on the Uyghurs” The Caravan (Hoover Institute)
09/2018 Interview with Sam McNeil, Associated Press about different Muslim interest groups in China and their relationship to the PRC party-state
08/2018 Interview with Marc Thibodeau, La Presse about current human rights crisis in Xinjiang
7 02/2018 Interview with Dr. Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic from the Woodrow Wilson Center regarding censorship of academics and archives in China for Congressional Hearing
08/2017 “Chinese Citizens Beyond State Borders and the Perceived Threat of Islamism in China,” The Caravan (Hoover Institute)
08/2017 Danish Newspaper interview
2014 Ottoman History Podcast “Muslims in the Middle Kingdom” http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/03/muslims-in-china.html
2014 Hazine: a Guide to Researching the Middle East “National Archives of Japan
2013 Dissertation Reviews “Five Essential Japanese Collections for China Scholars”
2008 The China Beat “Catch that Pepsi Spirit”
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Asian Studies American Historical Association Central Eurasian Studies Society Middle East Studies Association American Association of Religion
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
English (native); French (native); Chinese (professional level reading, speaking); Japanese (professional level reading, high-intermediate level speaking); Italian (reading only— intermediate).
SERVICE
2019-2020 Editorial Board, Twentieth-Century China Public Intellectual Program, Cohort VI, National Committee on US-China Relations Main Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor: Emily Roseneau Undergraduate Steering Committee, department member Chair of Library Committee
2018-2019 Faculty Senate, At-large-member Undergraduate Steering Committee, department member Editorial Board, Twentieth-Century China, Book review editor Main Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Gilliland
2017-2018 Faculty Senate, At-large-member Editorial Board, Twentieth-Century China, Book review editor Organizer, From the Silk Road to OBOR, two-day symposium, Asian Studies and Middle East Studies
8 Main Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor: Carter Fox Honors Committee Member: Karli Lapinski, Ashley Goodwin, Jessica Kloss
2016-2017 Editorial Board, Twentieth-Century China, Book review editor Organizer, Islam in Asia Speakers’ Series Organizer, Kissinger on Asia, hosted by the US Committee on US-China Relations at the University of Arkansas Faculty Mentor: Jama Groves Main Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor: Chris Cowan, Grace Miller Honors Committees Member: Wilson Guillory, Ricky Chiang Affiliated Faculty member, Asian Studies Program Faculty Mentor, Pi Gamma Mu Invited to join the Chancellor and Provost on a three-day bus tour of Arkansas (May 2017)
2015-2016 Faculty Mentor, Pi Gamma Mu Organizer, Asian Studies Speakers’ Series
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