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Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleCowell Provost
Professor
History Department Undergraduate Program Director

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationEast Asian Studies
Cowell College

Web SiteCenter
Okinawa
Office

Primary Office LocationCowell College Academic Building
Cowell 121

Additional Location(s)Humanities 1, room 535

Office HoursTuesdays 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Please sign up here for office hours https://calendar.app.google/D5tv2dcEFHkqrzV87

Mail StopCowell College

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Research Interests

Early modern Japan, modern Japan; history of social sciences, colonialism, and nationalism

Selected Publications

• A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnology, 1910-1945, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2012
• Rethinking Japanese History, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2012
• "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 Nebraska Press (2006).
• "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.