Margaret M. Tillman

Margaret Mih Tillman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. Before going to Purdue, Margaret taught in the History Department and the Croft Institute of International Studies at the University of Mississippi. She teaches East Asian history. She is author of Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).  Margaret conducted archival research in Taipei, Shanghai, and Beijing, with grants from the Center for Chinese Studies (National Central Library, Taiwan), the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the Fulbright DDRA, and a PRC 985 Research Grant through Fudan University. She first began to study abroad when she attended the preschool affiliated with Peking University in the mid-1980s.

Research Interests: Mordern History of China, Early Childhood Education

E-mail: mmtillman@purdue.edu