College of General Studies
Assistant Professor of Social Science

Shelley Drake Hawks is an historian specializing on the Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) in Maoist China with particular interest in investigating the persecution and resistance of artists.  She recently authored an article entitled “Summoning Confucius:  Inside Shi Lu’s imagination during the Cultural Revolution” to be included in the forthcoming volume edited by Ralph Croizier and Richard King, Cultural Production and the Cultural Revolution.   Her current book project is entitled Chinese Painting as a Spiritual Garden:  Resisting Mao’s Cultural Revolution in Defense of a Creative Life.

For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/cgs/faculty/inserts/hawks.htm