Alexander C. Cook

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: 3218 Dwinelle
Hours: M 9-10
Phone: (510) 642-2609
Email: accook@berkeley.edu

Education

PhD, Columbia University (2007)
AB, Brown University (1998)

Academic Appointments:

Assistant Professor, University of California (2009-present)
Humanities Fellow, Stanford University (2007-2009)
Lecturer, Brown University (2007)

Research Interests

Cultural, intellectual, legal, and political history of 20th-century China
Literary theory
Ideology and the aesthetics of totality, the global, and the universal

Current Projects

The Cultural Revolution on Trial
Little Red Book: A Global History of Quotations from Chairman Mao
Three Worlds Apart: Chinese Visions of the Third World

Selected Publications

“Third World Maoism.” Critical Introduction to Mao. Timothy Cheek, ed. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
“Experiments in the Laws of History: China from Mao to the WTO.” The Sixth Annual Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture. University of North Carolina, Wilmington. 2007.
“Settling Accounts: Law as History in the Trial of the Gang of Four.” Law and History. Current Legal Issues 6. Andrew Lewis and Michael Lobban, eds. Oxford University Press. 2003.

Courses

6B: China from 1200 to the Present