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Noriko Aso

Noriko Aso   
Noriko Aso
    Title:  Assistant Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  Asia and the Islamic World
    Email:  naso@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-5371 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  534 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Fridays, 12:00 - 2:00pm and by appointment

Courses Taught 
HIS-150A-01 - Ancient Japan
HIS-194E-01 - Women in Japanese History
HIS-194U-01 - The Cold War and East Asia
HIS-242-01 - Readings in Modern Japan
HIS-244-01 - Gender and Japanese History
HIS-40B-01 - Modern East Asia
HIS-45-01 - Japanese Pop Culture

Research Focus 
Japanese history, women's history, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, Korean history

Education History 
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Selected Publications 
Chapters in Books

"Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Setsu and Fascism," Alan Tansman, The Culture of Fascism, Durham, Duke University Press, 2009.

"Greece of the East: Philhellenism in Imperial Japan," When Worlds Elide, Lexington Books, No pagination eds. Karen Bassi and Peter Euben (forthcoming)

"Revolutionary Girls: From Oscar to Utena," Television, Japan, Globalization, University of Michigan Press eds. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Jungbong Choi, and Eva Tsai (forthcoming)

Articles in Professional Journals

"Shiteki na kky: maboroshi no Shibusawa Seien-o Kinen Jitsugy Hakubutsukan," Rekishi to minzoku 23 (2007.2), pp. 35-51, Tokyo, Heibonsha

"Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival" in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, v. 10, no. 1. 2002

"Class and Currency in Three Works by Yanagi Sôetsu," in Select Papers of the East Asia Center: Productions of Culture in Japan, no. 10, Robert Adams, ed., The University of Chicago East Asia Center. 1995

Translations

"Chinese Nationalism and Modern Japan: Imitation and Resistance in the Formation of National Subjects," by MurataYûjirô in Japanese Civilization in the Modern World XVI. Nation, State, Empire, ed. T. Umesao, T. Fujitani, and E. Kurimoto (Osaka: Japanese National Museum of Ethnology), Senri Ethnological Studies, no. 51. 2000

"Women in the Motherland: Oku Mumeo Through Wartime and Postwar," by Narita Ryûichi, in Total War and 'Modernization', ed. Yamanouchi Yasushi, J. Victor Koschmann, and Narita Ryûchi (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series). 1998

"Historical Practice Before the Dawn: ‘Modern Japan’ in Postwar History,” by Nrita Ryûchi, in iichiko intercultural, no. 7. 1995