Alexander C. Cook
PhD, Columbia University (2007)
AB, Brown University (1998)
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
Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor, University of California (2009-present)
Humanities Fellow, Stanford University (2007-2009)
Lecturer, Brown University (2007)
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
“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
| Semester | Course | Title | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2012 | 101.003 | Asian Worldviews | |
| Spring 2012 | 6B | Introduction to Chinese History from the Mongols to Mao | |
| Spring 2011 | 101.013 | Asian Worldviews | |
| Spring 2011 | 6B | China from the Mongols to Mao | |
| Fall 2011 | 275F | Foundational Texts of Modern Chinese History |