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Drew Kenneth Richardson
  • Title
    • Instructor
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Affiliations Cowell College
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 535
    • Cowell 242
  • Office Hours In Person: Mondays, 10am-Noon / Zoom Office Hours Available Upon Request
  • Mail Stop Cowell College
  • Courses Modern Japanese History: The State and the People; Monsters, Media, and the History of the Supernatural in Modern Japan; History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands (Next Offering: Winter 2025); Re-Imagining Samurai and Society in Tokugawa Japan (Next Offering: Spring 2025); Adapting Japanese Fantasy in a Global Context [Title Subject to Change] (Next Offering: Spring 2025)

Research Interests

I'm broadly interested in the intersections of the supernatural and media in modern Japan. I am interested in things like the relationship of feng shui, rumour, and radio projects in Okinawa, the occult history of the Japanese post office, and the relationship of Japanese native ethnography, yokai, and early Japanese encyclopediae.

I am also a Director of Research and Curricular Development for the Okinawa Memories Initiative. 

Research Keywords: East Asia; Modern Japanese history; Media studies; Monsters, Yokai, and the Supernatural; Folklore; Minzokugaku;

 

Biography, Education and Training

PhD in East Asian History (2024)

Honors, Awards and Grants