CURRICULUM VITAE PETER E. HAMILTON 44 Morningside Drive, Apt. 25, New York, NY 10025 peh2103@columbia.edu (+1) 913-449-2876 www.peterevanhamilton.com ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2016- The Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Making of the Modern Pacific World, The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI), Columbia University. 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute for Historical Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). EDUCATION August 2015 December 2011 May 2007 Ph.D., History, UT Austin. Adviser: Madeline Y. Hsu. M.A., History, UT Austin. Adviser: Mark Atwood Lawrence. B.A., History, Yale University. Distinction in History. PUBLICATIONS Book (Expected 2019) The Networked Colony: Hong Kong, American Social Capital, and China s Globalization. Under contract with Columbia University Press. Refereed Journal Articles & Book Chapters January 2018 October 2017 June 2015 August 2009 Rethinking the Origins of China s Reform Era: Hong Kong and the 1970s Revival of Sino-US Trade, Twentieth-Century China 43.1. In Press. Pop Gingle s Cold War, in Lon Kurashige, ed., Pacific America: Empires, Migrations, Exchanges. In Press, University of Hawaii Press. A Haven for Tortured Souls : Hong Kong in the Vietnam War, The International History Review 37.3 (June 2015): 565-581. An American Family s Mission in East Asia, 1838 to 1936: A Commitment to God, Academia and Empire, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 49 (August 2009): 229-265. Journal Articles in Progress (In Preparation) Fraud, Smuggling, and Money Laundering: Shanghai s Financial Exodus during the Communist Revolution.
Book Reviews Fall 2017 Summer 2017 The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of US-Chinese Relations in the Cold War by Meredith Oyen. The China Quarterly (forthcoming). Hong Kong in the Cold War, Priscilla Roberts and John M. Carroll, eds. H-Diplo Roundtable (forthcoming). Public and Digital History July 2015 November 2012 November 2012 November 2011 The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Imperial Preference Reborn? The Centre for Imperial and Global History, The University of Exeter s Imperial & Global Forum. http://imperialglobalexeter.com. A Historian in Hong Kong: Living in the Future, Looking at the Past, Not Even Past, UT Austin. www.notevenpast.org. Invited commentator on Hong Kong and the 2012 Presidential Election, for The World is Watching, Roads and Kingdoms. http://roadsandkingdoms.com. Review of The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Not Even Past, UT Austin. www.notevenpast.org. Dictionary Entries January 2012 The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography, May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, eds. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. GRANTS AND AWARDS December 2016 November 2016 September 2012- August 2013 May 2012 November 2011 May 2011 February 2011 November 2010 April 2010 Travel Grant, The Hong Kong History Project, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Research Grant, WEAI, Columbia University, New York, NY. Post-Graduate Research Fellowship, The Hong Kong-America Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. History Departmental Fellowship, Department of History, UT Austin. Research Travel Grant, Department of History, UT Austin. Summer Research Grant, Department of History, UT Austin. Tom and Martha Ward Endowed Fellowship, Department of Asian Studies, UT Austin. Student Travel Grant, Center for East Asian Studies, UT Austin. The International Education Fee Scholarship, UT Austin. 2
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS April 2017 January 2017 November 2016 July 2016 June 2015 April 2014 October 2013 April 2013 January 2013 June 2011 January 2011 Capitalist Transplants: Elite Refugees and the Reorientation of Hong Kong, moderated by Eugenia Lean, WEAI, Columbia University, New York, NY. April 25, 2017. Invited Speaker, The Networked Colony, New Directions in Hong Kong History Workshop, Hong Kong History Project, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Jan. 12-13, 2017. Invited Speaker, Escaping the Development Trap: Hong Kong s Transpacific Circulations and 1970s Economic Takeoff, Labor Migrations in the Pacific World Workshop, convened by Mae Ngai, Columbia University, New York, NY. Nov. 18, 2016. Panel Organizer and Speaker, Power and Charity: Chinese Migration and Imperial Agendas, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas conference, Vancouver, BC. July 6-9, 2016. Colliding Empires: Sino-Anglo-American Rivalry and Partnership in Hong Kong s Higher Education, 1951-1963, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) conference, Alexandria, VA. June 25-27, 2015. Panel Organizer and Speaker, Nation of Emigrants, The Organization of American Historians (OAH) conference, Atlanta, GA. April 10-13, 2014. Li Choh-ming at the Helm: US Empire and Hong Kong Identity, 42 nd Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Asia Society Texas. Oct. 18-19, 2013. Pop Gingle s Cold War, TransPacific China in the Cold War conference, The Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin. April 18-19, 2013. Invited Speaker, War in the Juke Box Jungle : American GIs and Hong Kong Identity, Multicultural Encounters workshop, University of Hong Kong (HKU). Jan. 3, 2013. Panel Organizer and Speaker, Hong Kong in the Vietnam War: American Servicemen and the Public Sphere, SHAFR, Alexandria, VA. June 23-25, 2011. A Haven For Tortured Souls : Hong Kong in the Vietnam War, Hong Kong in the Global Setting conference, HKU. Jan. 11-12, 2011. PUBLIC IMPACT May 2017 March 2017 Invited moderator, Family Album: 100 Chinese Family Stories Uncovered, with Yunghuo Li, Documentary Filmmaker and Senior Research Associate, City University of Hong Kong. WEAI, Columbia University. May 1, 2017. Invited moderator, Trouble Over Seas: US Policy in the South China Sea, with Drs. Andrew Nathan and Zack Cooper. The Alexander Hamilton Society, Columbia University. March 27, 2017. 3
April 2016 September 2014 February 2012 Invited lecture, The Networked Colony: Hong Kong, American Social Capital, and China s Globalization, International Studies Program of Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX. April 11, 2016. Invited lecture, Race and Space: Japanese Empire and the Rape of Nanking, for Robert Abzug s America and the Holocaust, UT Austin. Sept. 14, 2014. Invited lecture, The Dionysium, At the Boiling Point: Hong Kong vs. China, The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Cinema. Feb. 1, 2012. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught at Columbia Spring 2018 Modern China II. Dept. of History. Spring 2018. Falls 2016/17 Spring 2017 Global Hong Kong. Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC). Empires and Migrations in the Pacific World. EALAC. Courses Taught at UT Austin Springs 2014/15/16 Summer 2015 Summer 2014 Global Hong Kong. Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) and Depts. of History and Asian Studies. Introduction to Asian American History. CAAS and the Dept. of History. The United States Since 1865. Dept. of History. Graduate Student Advising Jia Zeng, Chinese Foreign Trade Policy and the Canton Trade Fair from 1957 to 1976, MA in Regional Studies East Asia Program, Columbia University, 2017. Afra Wang, Negotiating Reunification: The Origin of Hong Kong s Transfer to China, MA/MSc Joint Program in International and World History, Columbia University and LSE, 2017. Christopher John Lin, Hong Kong s Global Networks Under China. MA in Global Thought Program, Columbia University, 2017. SERVICE Sept. 2014- Feb. 2015 Dept. of History Rep., College of Liberal Arts TA-ship Reform Task Force, UT Austin 2015- Member, SHAFR 2013- Member, OAH 4
2013- Member, The American Historical Association (AHA) 2009-2012 Representative, The History Graduate Council, UT Austin LANGUAGES Mandarin Chinese Cantonese Chinese French Spanish Advanced Beginner Intermediate Intermediate REFERENCES Madeline Y. Hsu Professor of History Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Campus Dr. B7000, GAR 1.104, Austin, Texas 78712-1739 myhsu@austin.utexas.edu +1 (512) 475-9303 John Carroll Professor of History and Associate Dean, Faculty of the Arts University of Hong Kong 1037 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong jcarroll@hku.hk (+852) 3917-2866 Eugenia Lean Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University 420 West 118 th Street, 9 th Fl., New York, NY 10027 eyl2006@columbia.edu +1 (212) 854-1742 5