Underwood International College

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies 

• Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago 
• M.A. in History, City College of the City University of New York 
• B.A. in Asian Studies and History, City College of the City University of New York

Education

Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago 
M.A. in History, City College of the City University of New York 
B.A. in Asian Studies and History, City College of the City University of New York

Courses and Current Research Areas

Courses taught at Yonsei

• “Postwar Japan: Politics and Culture”
• “Reading Colonial Japan”
• “Memory Politics in Asia”
• “Gender in Modern Japanese History”
• “Japanese Popular Culture from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
• “Social Movements in Modern Japan”
• “Space and Mobility in Early Modern Japan, 1603–1868”
• “Race and Violence in Modern Japanese History”
• “Asian Studies Research Seminar”
• “Introduction to Asian Studies”

Selected Publications

Journal Articles:

“From the Stage to the Ring: The Early Years of Japanese Women’s Professional Wrestling, 1948–1956”, Journal of Women’s History (forthcoming).

“Shoka and Naniwa-bushi in Inoue Hisashi’s Manzanar, My Town (1993): Violence, Vulnerability, and Women’s Solidarity”, U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, No. 55/56, 2019: 128–152.

(In Japanese) “Hara Kagai’s ‘Socialist Kodan’ during and after the Russo-Japanese War: Appropriation of Urban Space and Theater Culture”, The Ilbon-hak, Journal of Japanology, No.47, November 2018: 229−258.

“‘Organizing’ Meiji Women: The Role of the Japanese Chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union for Individual Activists, 1900–1905”, Women's History Review, Vol. 26, No. 6, October 2017: 975−993.

“Motherly Affection as Tactics: Negotiating the Bourgeois Household in Higuchi Ichiyo's Kono ko”, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol.23, Issue 3, August 2017: 321−339.

(In Japanese) “Everyday Practice of Performance and Violence: Tokyo’s ‘Shitamachi’ Populace in Miyako Shinbun after the Russo-Japanese War”, The Ilbon-hak, Journal of Japanology, No.43, November 2016: 207−228.

‘“Anarchist Beauties’ in Late Meiji Japan: Media Narratives of Police Violence in the Red Flag Incident”, Radical History Review, Vol. 2016, No. 126, October 2016: 30−49.

Book Reviews:

“Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan. By Max M.Ward. Duke University Press, 2019”, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 75, No. 1, 2020: 173–176.

“Review of Jason G. Karlin, Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014)”, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2015: 93−97.