Norman Kutcher
Associate Professor of History

Maxwell School / Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel. 315-443-1264/Fax. 419-821-8012
email:nakutcher@maxwell.syr.edu
中文 CV in Chinese

Academic Specialization

Cultural, social, and intellectual history of China.

Education
  1. Yale University M.A., Ph.D.1985-1991
  2. Boston College Law School J.D.1982-1985
  3. Wesleyan University B.A.1978-1982

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments
  1. Chair, Department of History, Syracuse University 2003-2006
  2. Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University 1998-present.
  3. Assistant Professor of History, Syracuse University 1991-1998.
  4. Research Scholar, Qing History Institute, Renmin University of China 1999-2000.

Selected and Recent Publications

  1. "To Speak the Unspeakable:  Aids, Culture and the Rule of Law in China" Syracuse J. of Int'l Law 30:2. (Summer 2003), 272-86.
  2. "China's Palace of Memory," The Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2003).
  3. Mourning in Late Imperial China:  Filial Piety and the State (Cambridge University Press, 1999, paperback edition 2005). 
  4. "Zou Saizhen", "Wang Su'e", "Li Yuying", "Yang Yuxiang," in Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, eds., Women Writers of Traditional China:  An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism (Stanford University Press, 1999).
  5. "The Fifth Relationship:  Dangerous Friendships in the Confucian Context" American Historical Review 105:5 (December 2000), 1615-1629.    
  6. "The Death of the Xiaoxian Empress: Bureaucratic Betrayals and the Crises of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Rule" Journal of Asian Studies 56:3 (August 1997), 708-25.

Selected Reviews

  1. Michael Szonyi, Practicing Kinship:  Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 2002), reviewed in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 64.2 (December 2004), 491-502. 
  2. Joseph P. McDermott, ed., State and Court Ritual in China (Cambridge, 1999), reviewed in American Historical Review 106:3 (June 2001).
  3. Evelyn S. Rawski, The Last Emperors:  A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (California, 1999)  reviewed in Journal of International History.
  4. Red Azalea, by Anchee Min.   Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 13, 1994, Section H., p. 1. (solicited)
  5. The Stubborn Porridge, by Wang Meng.  Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1994, Section N, p. 2. (solicited)
  6. Mandate of Heaven, by Orville Schell and China Wakes, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.  Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 1994, Section M, p. 3. (solicited)
  7. Pearl Buck:  A Cultural Biography, by Peter Conn.  Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 1997, Section Q., p. 1, 10. (solicited)

Research Grants and Awards
  1. ACLS/CSCC Research Fellowship,1999-2000, (National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China)
  2. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend,1993.
  3. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities,1985-1989 .
  4. Committee on Scholarly Communications with China ,1988-1989.
  5. Yale University Fellowship, 1985-1987 .
  6. Yale University Dissertation  Completion Fellowship,1990-1991.