OAH Delegates

OAH Delegates

Funded by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission

 

2023
Jennifer Hull Dorsey, Siena College / Colonial and Revolutionary America with particular interests in using local history resources

Host: Yukako Hisada, Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi

 

Jane Kamensky, Harvard University / Revolutionary America, transatlantic history, sexuality, slavery, and capitalism

Hosts: Ayumu Kaneko, Shuichi Wanibuchi. Meiji University, Tokyo


2022

Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island / 20th century U.S. labor history with a focus on the American West, environmentalism, globalization, and the Pacific World

Host:Shuhei Minami, Senshu University, Tokyo

 

Farina King, Northeastern State University / Native American history, comparative Indigenous/colonial studies, and the history of education; race, ethnicity, gender

Host:Madoka Sato, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo

 

2021

Postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

2020

Postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

2019

Renee Romano, Oberlin College / C-ultural history of the twentieth century

Host:Shuichi Takebayashi, Tohoku University, Miyagi

 

Elliott Young, Lewis & Clark College / Immigration and social/cultural history of the United States, including trans-Pacific migration

Host:Yoko Tsukuda, Seijo University, Tokyo

 

2018

Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University / Transnational and transborder movements of people, ideas, institutions, and material culture in the twentieth century (these themes include immigration, race, gender, and such borderlands as the American West)

Host:Shiori Ichimasa, Yuki Oda, Chuo University, Tokyo

 

Bethel Saler, Haverford College / Social, cultural, and political history from the Revolution to the Civil War, with a focus on race and ethnic relations, state formation, colonialism, and empire

Host:Takeo Mori, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka

 

2017

Jana K. Lipman, Tulane University / American nationalism and race/ethnic relations, immigration and social/cultural history of the United States in the 20th century

Host:Kotaro Nakano, Osaka University, Osaka

 

Lisa McGirr, Harvard University / Social, cultural, and political history from the late nineteenth to the twentieth centuries

Host:Hiroyuki Matsubara, Rikkyo University, Tokyo

 

2016

Neil Foley, Southern Methodist University / Changing constructions of race, citizenship, and transnational identity in the Borderlands, Mexico and the American West; Mexican immigration; and comparative civil rights politics of African Americans and Mexican Americans

Host:Takahiro Sasaki, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo

 

Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin / Transnationalism, transpacific history, U.S.-East Asian relations

Host:Manako Ogawa, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

 

2015

Kevin C. Murphy, University of the Sciences / U.S. Cultural and Social History, U.S.-Japan Relations

Host:Masaharu Yasuoka, Kobe University

 

Greg Robinson, Université du Québec À Montréal / Asian American History, U.S. Political History, transnational studies

Host:Takashi Aso, Waseda University, Tokyo

 

2014

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia / U.S. cultural history

Host:Hideo Tsuji, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo

 

Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University / Asian American history and history of sexuality

Host:Ikue Kina, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa

 

2013

Bryant Simon, Temple University / Urban and suburban history

Host:Ichiro Miyata, Saitama University, Saitama

 

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University / U.S. women’s history

Host:Rumi Yasutake, Konan University, Hyogo

 

2012

Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley / History of race and gender

Host:Yoshiyuki Kido, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth / U.S. foreign relations in the Cold War era

Host:Yuka Tsuchiya, Ehime University, Ehime

 

Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University / The history of race and ethnicity

Host:Yasumasa Fujinaga, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi

 

2011

Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan / American Jewish history

Host:Miyuki Kita, University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka

 

2010

Mark Dyreson, Pennsylvania State University / American sports history

Host:Kohei Kawashima, Musashi University, Tokyo

 

Ariela J.Gross, University of Southern California / History of race and racial ideologies in the United States

Host:Yasuko Takezawa, Kyoto University, Kyoto

 

2009

Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University / Southern history and culture

Host:Akiyo Okuda, Keio University, Tokyo

 

Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University / U.S. ethnic and immigration history

Host:Akiyo Yamamoto, Nagoya City University, Aichi

 

2008

Elaine H. Kim, University of California, Berkeley / Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies

Host:Fukuko Kobayashi, Waseda University, Tokyo

 

Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University / Japanese American History, Asian Studies, and Ethnic Studies

Host:Katsunori Yamazato, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa

 

2007

Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York, Binghamton / U.S. women’s history

Host:Rui Kohiyama, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo

 

Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania / Modern American history with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, and labor

Host:Masaki Kawashima, Nanzan University, Aichi

 

Paul R. Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara / Japanese American history

Host:Miyuki Yonezawa, Tokai University, Kanagawa

 

2006

Donald L. Fixico, Arizona State University / American Indian history

Host:Juri Abe, Rikkyo University, Tokyo

 

Leo P. Ribuffo, The George Washington University / 20th-century U.S. historyHost:Juro Otsuka, Sophia University, Tokyo

 

2005

Sara Evans, University of Minnesota / Women’s history, History of Contemporary American Feminism, History of Women’s Rights

Host:Fusako Ogata, Tezukayama University, Nara

 

Kim E. Nielsen, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay / Gender history

Host:Kazuto Oshio, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo

 

  1. Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College & State University / Diplomatic and cultural history

Host:Koji Terachi, Kyoritsu Women’s University, Tokyo

 

2004

Thomas L. Haskell, Rice University / Religious history until the Great Awakening

Host:Naoki Onishi, International Christian University, Tokyo

 

Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida / Diplomatic history after World War II

Host:Hideki Kan, Kyushu University, Fukuoka

 

  1. Kurt Piehler, The University of Tennessee / Modern and contemporary American imperialism

Host:Ryo Yokoyama, Kobe University, Hyogo

 

2003

John M. Findlay, University of Washington / History of the American West

Host:Masaru Okamoto, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima

 

Theresa Kaminski, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point / 20th-century women’s history

Host:Eiichi Akimoto, Chiba University, Chiba

 

Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego / News media history

Host:Takashi Sasaki, Doshisha University, Kyoto

 

2002

Davison M. Douglas, William & Mary School of Law / Contemporary history

Host:Koji Takenaka, Tohoku University, Miyagi

 

David Farber, University of New Mexico / 20th century political history and social movements

Host:Fumiaki Kubo, Keio University, Tokyo

 

Beth Bailey, University of New Mexico / 19th and 20th century cultural history, popular culture, and gender

Host:Naoko Sugiyama, Saitama University, Saitama

 

2001

Judith Stein, The City University of New York / African American history

Host:Satoshi Nakano, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

James Barrett, University of Illinois / Immigration, race, and ethnicity

Host:Takeshi Matsuda, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka

 

Katherine G. Aiken, University of Idaho / Women, environmental, popular culture

Host:Juri Abe, Rikkyo University, Tokyo

 

2000

Mary Logan Rothschild, Arizona State University / Women’s history

Host:Noriko Shimada, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo

 

Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California School of Law / Political and intellectual history

Host:Jun Furuya, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido

 

Michael A. Bernstein, University of California, San Diego / Intellectual and economic history

Host:Kazuyuki Matsuo, Sophia University, Tokyo

 

1999

Casey Blake, Washington University-St. Louis / Intellectual and cultural history

Host:Fumiko Fujita, Tsuda College, Tokyo

 

Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles / Women’s history

Host:Yoshiko Takita, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

 

Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington / Film history

Host:Koji Ooi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo

 

1998

Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University / Intellectual history

Host:Misako Koike, Tohoku University, Miyagi

 

Eileen Boris, University of Virginia / Women’s and labor history

Host:Hiroko Sato, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo

 

Robert Goldberg, University of Utah / History of conservatism

Host:Masahiro Nakano, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

 

1997

Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College / American studies and social history

Host:Takeshi Kondo, International Christian University, Tokyo

 

John W. Chambers, Rutgers University / 20th century and peace and war studies

Host:Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo, ,Tokyo

 

Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Cornell University / Women’s history

Host:Takashi Sasaki, Doshisha University, Kyoto