Advisor: Andrew Gordon

Mayako’s primary interest is understanding the modes and patterns of colonial and post-colonial interactions across Japan and Korea. In her master’s thesis, she explored some of these complex formations under imperial war mobilization in Korea, i.e. late...

Jeonghun Choi’s research themes center around intellectual history and book history of Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particularly, he studies how popular writers and commercial publishing houses in Japan duplicated, pirated, and...

Gene Kim is a Ph.D. student in History and East Asian Languages. His research focuses on the political, social, and oceanic history of Japan's post-1945 relations with the two Koreas. His research interests also include Korean and Japanese interactions...

Irradiated Trajectories: Medical Radiology in Modern Japan

Re-viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Japan, 1925-1945

From the Brothel, to the body: the Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870-1920

Orchestrating Modernity, Singing the Self: Theories of Music in Meiji and Taisho Japan

Serving Your Master: The Kashindan Retainer Corps and the Socio-Economic Transformation of Warring States: Japan

Marginal Development: Japan, Taiwan, and the Tropicalization of the Yaeyama Islands, 1880s to 1970s

Building Japan’s Empire: Local Practice and Colonial Expertise in Northeast China, 1905–1953