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Alan Christy Home  Directory Alan Christy
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Alan Christy
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Associate Professor |
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Faculty Member |
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Concentration: |
Asia and the Islamic World |
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achristy@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-5564 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message |
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Office: |
535 Humanities 1 |
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On leave Fall 2009 |
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| Courses Taught | |
HIS-100-01 - Historical Skills and Methods
HIS-150C-01 - Modern Japan
HIS-194B-01 - Okinawan History
HIS-194Y-01 - Memories of WWII in US and Japan
HIS-243-01 - Transnational Japanese Hisotry
HIS-80Y-01 - WWII Memories in the US and Japan
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Early modern Japan, modern Japan; history of social sciences, colonialism, and nationalism |
| Education History | |
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Ph.D. University of Chicago |
| Selected Publications | |
"Ethnographies
of the Self: The Formation of Japanese Native Ethnology, 1910-1945." (manuscript)
Nihon no rekishi wo yominaosu and Zoku nihon no rekishi wo yominaosu
by Amino Yoshihiko, tr. and ed. (originally published by Chikuma Shobo,
Tokyo, 1991 and 1996). University of Michigan Press (forthcoming).
"Primitive Communists and Profiteering Women: Propriety and Scandal in Okinawan
Studies." Orientalism: From Postcolonial Theory to World History, E. Burke and D. Prochaska, eds. University of California Press (forthcoming).
"Colonialism and the Sciences of the Tropical Zone: The Academic Analysis
of Difference in 'the Island Peoples,' by Tomiyama Ichiro (translation)."
Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 3:2 (1995). Reissued in Formations
of Colonial Modernity in Asia, T. Barlow, ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University
Press, 1997.
"A Fantasy of Ancient Japan: The Assimilation of Okinawa in Yanagita Kunio's
Kainan Shoki." Select Papers of the East Asia Center: Productions
of Culture in Japan, no. 10, R. Adams, ed. Chicago: East Asia Center,
University of Chicago, 1995.
"The Making of Imperial Subjects in Okinawa." Positions: East Asia Cultures
Critique 1:3 (1993). Reissued in Formations of Colonial Modernity
in East Asia, T. Barlow, ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. |
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