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Dr. Jason Petrulis is an Assistant Professor in Global History whose research and teaching focus on Asia-US relations.
He received his PhD, MPhil, and MA from Columbia University, and his BA from Harvard University. He is a historian of global capitalism, broadly conceived, whose book in progress, Wig: A Global History, 1958-1979, uses a curious commodity as a “lens” on Asian industrialization. Wig draws on archival, library, and field research at sites ranging from India and Hong Kong to the US and Singapore. An article based on this research, “ ‘A Country of Hair’: A Global Story of South Korean Wigs, Korean American Entrepreneurs, African American Hairstyles, and Cold War Industrialization,” was published in Enterprise & Society,
“A Country of Hair” was awarded the Philip Scranton “Best Article” prize and also received an honorable mention for the Mira Wilkins prize for best article in international/comparative history, both from the Business History Conference.
Dr. Petrulis’s interests also include Taiwanese flour sack underwear, Black sailors and Blackness on the Perry expedition to Japan, 19th-century students of color at US universities, World War II advertising and propaganda, and digital and public humanities.
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Wig: The Global History of a Cold War Commodity, 1958-1979
20/05/22 → 19/05/25
Project: Research project
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Exhuming the histories of black students in Antebellum Northern Universities
PETRULIS, J. T., Mar 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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Moving wigs through Kai Tak: The hairy story of a global commodity network in 1960s-70s Hong Kong
PETRULIS, J. T., Jun 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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Black sailors, black ships, blackface: Episodes in race-making across Commodore Perry’s Pacific, 1853-56
PETRULIS, J. T., Mar 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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“A country of hair”: A global story of South Korean wigs, Korean American entrepreneurs, African American hairstyles, and Cold War industrialization
PETRULIS, J. T., Jun 2021, In: Enterprise & Society. 22, 2, p. 368-408Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Mira Wilkins Prize in International and Comparative Business History, Honorable Mention
PETRULIS, Jason Todd (Recipient), 09 Apr 2022
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Philip Scranton Best Article Prize
PETRULIS, Jason Todd (Recipient), 09 Apr 2022
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