Mr Pete Millwood

About

Mr Pete Millwood is a DPhil candidate in history at St Antony’s College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis examines how transnational cultural and academic exchanges influenced diplomacy between the United States and the People’s Republic of China in the 1970s. He is broadly interested in relations between America and the Chinese world, as well as in the role of transnational and non-state actors in diplomacy. He conducted the archival work towards his doctoral thesis while holding pre-doctoral fellowships at Peking University in Beijing and at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. He has degrees from Oxford and LSE, where he studied for his undergraduate degree.

Teaching

Mr Millwood teaches the following course at undergraduate level:

HY113: From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

Publications

• The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination, by Robeson Taj Frazier (review), in History: The Journal of the Historical Association (forthcoming, January 2017)
• Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War by Sergey Radchenko, in the Asian Review of Books, published online in May 2014

Conference Papers

• “Below the Summit: Exchange Visits in Sino-American Relations, from Ping-Pong Diplomacy to Normalisation, 1971-1978”, presented at British International History Group 2016 annual meeting, Edinburgh, September 2016
• “From Foe to Friend? China Through the Eyes of American Visitors, 1971-78”, presented at UCL Americas Research Network annual conference, April 2016
• “American Visitors to China in the 1970s: The Structure, Substance and Sentiment of Sino-American People-to-People Contacts”, presented at Kluge Fellow seminar, Library of Congress, August 2015
• “Familiarity Breeding Contempt? Bilateral Exchanges, People-to-People Contacts and the Breakdown of Sino-American Rapprochement during the Gerald Ford Presidency”, selected for presentation at plenary session of Hong Kong University spring history symposium, May 2015

Awards & Honours

• 2016-17: Bryce Research Studentship from Oxford History Faculty
• 2016: Grant from Arnold travel fund at Oxford for thesis research at Jimmy Carter Library
• 2016: HOTCUS travel grant for thesis research at Jimmy Carter Library
• 2015: AHRC International Fellowship for summer of fieldwork research at the Library of Congress
• 2014-2015: Chinese Government Scholarship for year of scholarly exchange at Peking University to facilitate fieldwork and thesis research
• 2014: Travel grant from the European Association of American Studies for thesis research in the Nixon Library
• 2013-2017: AHRC three year PhD studentship covering fees and full living stipend
• 2012-2013: Huayu Enrichment Scholarship from Taiwanese government for a year of Chinese-language training in Taipei
• 2011: Travel grant from the Ford Presidential Foundation for research at the Gerald Ford Library
• 2011: Distinction in Master of Studies in Global and Imperial History, University of Oxford
• 2010-2011: Two travel grants from the Carr and Stahl travel fund, St Antony’s College, Oxford for Master’s dissertation research in the US
• 2010: A travel grant from the Arnold, Bryce and Read travel fund at the University of Oxford for Master’s dissertation research in the US
• 2010: First Class Honours in BA History at LSE