About
AT A GLANCE:
Professor, U.S. Naval War College
RESEARCH AREAS:
• China
• China at War (1920-1945)
• Youth Organizations in Shanghai
BIOGRAPHY:
Kristin Mulready-Stone earned her PhD in history from Yale University. She was history
faculty at Kansas State University from 2000-2016 joined the faculty at the U.S. Naval
War College in 2016. In 2023-2024 she was Visiting Professor and held the Harold K.
Johnson Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army War College in the Department of
Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations. She has conducted research in the Shanghai
Municipal Archives; the Number Two Historical Archives in Nanjing; the National Archives
in Kew, London, United Kingdom; the National Archives in College Park, MD and Washington,
D.C.; the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; and many libraries in the United
States and China. Her research focuses on China at war from 1920-1945 and youth organizations
in Shanghai.
PUBLICATIONS:
Mobilizing Shanghai Youth
“The Crucial Phase of the China Theatre: The War of Resistance Against Japan, 1937-1938.”In The Routledge History of the Second World War, edited by Paul Bartrop. New York:
Routledge, 2021, 117-131.
“China Divided and at War, 1937-1945.” In The Routledge History of the Second World War, edited by Paul Bartrop. New York:
Routledge, 2021, 349-363.
“The Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Chinese Youth Movement,” in The Global Impacts of Russia’s Great War and Revolution: Book 2: The Wider Arc
of Revolution (Part 2). eds. Choi Chatterjee, Steven Marks, Mary C. Neuberger, and
Steven Sabol. Bloomington IN: Slavica Publishers, 2019, 225-252.
“Character Conservancy in Shanghai’s Emergency: The YMCA in Shanghai, 1931-1942,” in The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars. London and
New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018
“A New Form of Accountability in Joint Professional Military Education: The Shift
to Outcomes-Based Military Education,” in Joint Force Quarterly 112 (1st quarter 2024).
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