State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood

John L. Brooke is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Historical Research at the Ohio State University. He has previously explored the topic of state formation in his prize-winning books, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713861 (1989) and Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson (2010).

Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese Politics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her work on twentieth-century state building and institution building in China and Taiwan has been published widely, including Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: Statebuilding in Republican China, 1927940 (1998) and essays in Comparative Studies in Society and History and the Journal of Asian Studies.

Greg Anderson is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. His work focuses on ancient Greece and historical thought. His forthcoming book, The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History, makes a case for an ntological turn' in historical practice.