Joshua Howard
Croft Associate Professor of History
Phone Number: (662)915-5749
Email: jhhoward@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/2011/11/18/joshua-h-howard-croft-associate-professor-of-history-and-international-studies/

Key Words: East Asian

Research Description: Joshua H. Howard received his B.A. in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College in 1988 and his Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. Since joining the History Department and the Croft Institute for International Studies in 1999, he has offered survey courses of late imperial and modern China, modern East Asia, and more specialized courses on contemporary China, the history of the Chinese revolutions, and US-China relations. His book, Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937-1953 (Stanford University Press, 2004) examines the process of class formation in the Nationalist wartime capital of Chongqing. Recent publications include: "History of Child Labor in China" in G.K. Lieten and Elise Nerveen Meerkerk, eds., Child Labour's Global Past (Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, 2011): 501-525. "The Making of a National Icon: Commemorating Nie Er, 1935-1949" Twentieth Century China Vol. 37, No. 1(2012): 5-29. He is researching two book projects. Nie Er: Composing Sonic Nationalism and China's Revolutionary Music focuses on this radical song writer's involvement in the proletarian arts movement during the 1930s and the political uses of his commemoration and music. The second project involves a study of class and gender relations in the Chongqing cotton mills from the 1930s up through the contemporary era of market reforms.

Honors Theses:

Durkin, Colin (2021) Rome Joins the Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for the Development of Trieste and Italy?s Position in Chinese Foreign Policy (full text)

Barlow, Mary (2021) The Politics of Water Resource Management: State-Guided Framing of China?s South to North Water Diversion Project and its Impact on Citizen Perception (full text)

Pierre, Queen Marcela (2019) The PRC and its Anti-Drug War: The Opium Suppression Campaign of the Early 1950's (full text)

Smith, Kayla (2016) Tigers, Flies, and Longines: The Chinese Corruption Crackdown and its Effect on Conspicuous Consumption. (full text)

Brack, Taylor (2015) Women Hold Up Half the Internet: Examining the Political Identities of Chinese Women Bloggers. (full text)

Merriman, Mazie (2015) China's "Leftover" Women Phenomenon: Media Portrayal and "Leftover" Voices. (full text)

Whitehead, Zackary L. (2015) Defining the "Revolution": A Study of Contemporary China's Sexual Transformation. (full text)

Bumpas, William (2014) Uncontrolled Enrollment Expansion: Fragmented Authoritarianism in Chinese Higher Education. (full text)

Bandi, Tabitha (2012) "Ethnic Tourism's Effect on Bai Ethnic Minority's Identity in Dali, China"

Parsons, Ryan James (2011) "The Urbanization fo Chinese Citizenship: A Case Study of Shanghai and Suzhou"

Weiss, Gabriel Amadeus (2011) "Conflict or Compromise: China’s Perceptions and Intentions Regarding US Defense Policy Towards Taiwan"

Callahan, Mary Erin (2010) "Chinese Nationalism and Uyghur Uprisings in Xinjiang"

Chatlani, Jitin Haresh (2010) "From the Peach Garden to the Television screen: Measuring Cultural Value in Journey to the West"

Reves, Cooper Norris (2010) "The Mobilization of China's Legal System and Religious Bureaucracy as a Means of Combating the Threat of the Falun Gong"

Wicker, McDaniel Drake (2009) "Power Play: How Grassroots Democracy has Affected Rural Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party"

Peeples, Jonathan Holmes (2007) "From an Ends to a Means: The Nixon Administration's Relationship with Popular Media during Sino-American Rapprochement"