GEORGIA A. MICKEY
Associate Professor of East Asian History
Department of History
California State Polytechnic University
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, NY
Ph.D. in History-East Asia
M.A. in Chinese Studies
M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
B.A. in Spanish Literature
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2006-Present
Associate Professor
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Safeguarding National Credibility’: Founding the Bank of China, 1912,” Twentieth-Century
China 37.2 (May 2012): 139-160.
Book reviews:
• Brett Sheehan, Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision (Harvard University Press,
2015). Forthcoming in Twentieth-Century China.
• Mary Tiffen, Friends of Sir Robert Hart: Three Generations of Carrall Women in China (Queen’s
University Belfast, Tiffania Books, 2012). Journal of Asian Studies 73, no. 2 (May 2014).
• Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh, The Lius of Shanghai (Harvard University Press,
2013). In The Chinese Historical Review, 20015.
• Zhongping Chen, Modern China’s Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical
Change in the Early Twentieth Century (Stanford University Press, 2011). In The Economic
History Review 65, 4 (November 2012).
• Niv Horesh, Shanghai’s Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknotes, and Monetary Policy in
China, 1842-1937 (Yale University Press, 2009). In Journal of Asian Studies 69, 1 (February
2010).
• Tomoko Shiroyama, China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy,
1929-1937 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009). In The China Journal (Australia
National University) 61 (January 2009).
• Lin Man-houng, China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808-1856 (Harvard
University Press, 2006). In Chinese Business History 17.1 (Spring 2008).
• Chan Kai You, Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and
His Enterprises, 1920-1937 (Hong Kong University Press, 2006). In Journal of Asian Studies
66:1 (Spring 2008).
• Cheng Linsun, Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the
Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2003). In Chinese
Business History 13.2 (Fall 2003).
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CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
• September 2016
West Coast Association of Asian Studies Conference
“Mediating the Global and the Local: The Bank of China (1912-1918)”
• March 20015
University of Southern California Book Launch
Discussant for Brett Sheehan’s Industrializing Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision
• September 2014
Conference on Beyond Modernity?, Columbia University
“Mediating Modernization: Mobilizing Support for the Bank of China, 1912-1918”
• March 2013
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
“Accountability: Achieving Shareholder Governance at the Bank of China, 1916-1918.”
• May 2011
Pomona College History Department Lecture Series
“‘Safeguarding National Credibility’: Founding the Bank of China in 1912”
• October 2010
Western Conference of the Association on Asian Studies
“Continuity in Change: Translating Rhetoric and Praxis for Reforming the Bank of
China, 1916-1918”
• June 2010
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference
“Reformist Activism at the Bank of China”
• May 2010
Western Association of Women Historians
Roundtable on the First Ten Years of Your Career: “Scheduling for Meeting Career
Objectives”
• October 2009
Western Conference of the Association on Asian Studies
“New Wine in Old Bottles: Mobilizing for Financial Modernity at the Bank of China,
1916-1918”
• March 2007
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
“Trans-Century Echoes: The Bank of China in the Republican Period”
• April 2005
Stanford University, Center for East Asian Studies
• “Saving the Nation without the State: China’s Modern Bankers and Their ‘Creation
Myth’”
• April 2002
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
“Writing Politics Back into the Historical Narrative of the Bank of China”
• August 1998
Conference on Banking in the Republic Period, Oxford University
“The Shareholders’ Association of the Bank of China”
• May 1997
Workshop on Chinese Business History, Harvard University
“Chinese Bankers as Entrepreneurs”
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2005-2006
Columbia University Tang-Fu Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004-2005
Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
2003-2004
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2002-2003
Wellington Koo Dissertation Fellowship
2000-2002
Committee for Scholarly Exchange with China (dissertation research)
1999-2000
Blakemore Foundation Fellowship (Chinese language study in Taiwan)
1996-1999
President’s Fellow, Columbia University
1995
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship
Fellowships awarded but not used:
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Fulbright IIE Dissertation Research Fellowship
Peking University Fellowship for Advanced Research in Chinese Studies
Columbia University Traveling Fellowship
COURSES TAUGHT 2014-2016
Ancient and Medieval China
China 900-1800
China 1800- Present
China 1949-Present
Senior Thesis
Japan to 1868
Modern Japan
History of World Civilizations 500-1500
History of World Civilizations 1500-Present
Research Methods
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (2015-2016)
University Curriculum Committee
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Undergraduate Research Faculty Advisory Council
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean Search Committee
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Budget and Planning Committee
Department of History Semester Conversion Coordinator
Department of History Twentieth-Century U.S. History Faculty Search Committee
Department of History Advisor to Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honors Society)
SERVICE TO THE FIELD
Council of the Pacific Branch of the American Historical Association (2012-2015)
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Book Store Management:
1991-1994
Archivia: The Decorative Arts Bookshop, New York City
1990-1991
The Corner Bookstore, New York City
Banking and Finance:
1989-1990
Cambridge Associates, Inc., Boston
1979-1989
Citibank, N.A., New York and Hong Kong
1977-1979
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York
1973-1976
Marine Midland Bank, New York and London