Academic Curriculum Vitae

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Historian, PhD in Social Sciences

Faculty Appointments

2023-	Assistant Professor. Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
2020-2023	Senior Lecturer. Faculty of Business and Information Sciences, Jobu University, Japan
2015-2020	Assistant Professor. College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Education

2007-2012	Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan PhD program, Graduate School of Social Sciences
2004-2007	Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan MA program, Graduate School of Social Sciences
1999-2004	Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan BA program, Department of History

Research Interests

Global history of humanitarianism and human rights

Social history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century

Theories and practice of history and memory

Grants and Fellowships

2023-2026	Grant-in-Aid (23K00798), Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2018-2023	Grant-in-Aid (18K00914), Scientific Research (C) [Co-Investigator], Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2017-2023	Grant-in-Aid (17K13522), Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2014-2017	Grant-in-Aid (26770210), Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2012-2015	Grant-in-Aid (12J06622), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2012-2015	Research Fellow (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. All-expense fellowship
2011	Overseas Research Fellowship for Young Researchers, Hitotsubashi University, funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (competitive)
2009-2012	Grant-in-Aid (09J05791), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2009-2012	Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. All-expense fellowship
2009	Historians’ Collaborative Program Grant, Organization of American Historians-Japanese Association of American Studies, funded by Japan-United States Friendship Commission
2007	Research-Travel Grant, Field Work category II (international), Program for Promoting the Advanced Research in Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University (competitive)
2007-2009	Fulbright Grant, Institute of International Education and Japan-United States Educational Commission. All-expense grant
2005	Research-Travel Grant for Master’s Students in American Studies, Japan-United States Friendship Commission

Publications in English

A. Journal Articles

“Humanitarian Crucible: The American Red Cross and the War in the Caribbean Islands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Journal of American and Canadian Studies 41, 2024: 3-30. Peer-reviewed.

“The Alchemy of Humanitarianism: The First World War, the Japanese Red Cross, and the Creation of an International Public Health Order.” First World War Studies 5, no. 1, 2014: 117-129. Peer-reviewed.

“Professional Angels at War: The United States Army Nursing Service and Changing Ideals of Nursing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Japanese Journal of American Studies 24, 2013: 67-86. Peer-reviewed.

“The Ambiguous Terrain: Articulation of Disability in the Municipal Administration of New York City in the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of American and Canadian Studies 26, 2008: 59-81. Peer-reviewed.

B. Book Chapters

“The Ambivalent Enterprise: Medical Activities of the Red Cross Society of Japan in the Northeastern Region of China during the Russo-Japanese War.” In Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China, eds. Ines Prodoehl, Frank Gruener, and Dan Ben-Canaan, 189-203. London et al.: Springer, 2013. Peer-reviewed.

“Coercive Semblance: Imperial Construction of ‘Japaneseness’ in the Early Twentieth Century.” In Conflicting Ethnicities: Locating the Local in the Global, ed. Kousar J. Azam, 339-348. New Delhi et al.: Manohar, 2013.

C. Others

“Disability History Beyond Borders: The Story of Ryoichi Ishii and Takinogawa Gakuen in Japan.” In Public Disability History 1:12, 2016. <http://www.publicdisabilityhistory.org/2016/06/disability-history-beyond-borders-story.html>

“McGee, Anita Newcomb” and “Curtis, Namahyoke Sockum.” Entries in An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields, ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank, 171-73, 380-82. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2013.

Conference Presentations in English

“Humanitarian Confluence: The Transcultural Formation of Red Cross Humanitarianism in Interwar Asia.” Paper presented at the conference of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, “Crossings and Connections: East Asia and the World, c1800-1945,” Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 26 October 2024.

“Entanglements of Benevolence: War, Colonial Rule, and the League of Red Cross Societies in the Asia Pacific, 1919-1941.” Paper presented at the international conference “The League of Red Cross Societies in Historical Perspectives, 1919-1991,” International Federation of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland, 15 June 2023.

“Contested Terrain: Mental Retardation and the Gendered Politics of Diagnosis in Early Twentieth-Century New York.” Paper presented at the conference “Mental Health, Sexuality, and Gynaecological Treatments in Europe and America, 19th-20th Century,” Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, 12 June 2023.

“The Past in the Present: Cultural Heritages and Community Rebuilding in Contemporary Japan.” Paper presented at the international e-conference “Japanology in New Era,” hosted by Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 29 January 2021.

“The American Red Cross and the Transpacific Origins of the U.S. Public Health System.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, US, 7 November 2019.

“Transcultural Entanglements in the Pacific World: War, Memory, and the Geopolitics of Humanitarianism.” Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for American Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, 2 June 2019.

“Geopolitics of Humanitarianism: Colonialism, Public Health, and the Red Cross Movement in Interwar Asia.” Paper presented at the 10th International Convention of Asian Scholars, International Exhibition and Convention Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 22 July 2017.

“In Between the West and East: Medical Activities of the Japanese Red Cross in the Northeastern Region of China.” Paper presented at the 8th Meeting of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 30 September-1 October 2016.

“The Contested Ideal: Red Cross Humanitarianism and the Creation of International Public Health Order in Asia.” Paper presented at the international conference “Histories of the Red Cross Movement: Continuity and Change,” Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 9-11 September 2016.

“The Price of Humanity: International Red Cross Movement and the Ideological Politics of Humanitarianism in Asia.” Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of World History Association, Ghent, Belgium, 2-5 July 2016.

“Under the Aegis of Humanitarianism: American Women Nurses and the Transnational Origins of the U.S. Public Health.” Paper presented at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, US, 7-10 January 2016.

“Creating a Healthy Citizen: American Women Nurses and the Colonial Origins of the U.S. Public Health.” Paper presented at the 7th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Seoul, South Korea, 17-19 August 2015.

“Humanitarian Exchanges in Asia: The Red Cross Health Programs in the Philippines and the Creation of an International Public Health Order in the 1920s.” Paper presented at the international conference “Exchange and Change: The Philippines and Filipinos in the World,” Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 12-13 September 2014.

“Transnational History of the Colonial Public Health System in the Philippines at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference “History of Medicine in Southeast Asia,” Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 9-11 January 2014.

“In the Name of Humanitarianism: The Oriental Red Cross Conferences and the Colonialization of International Public Health Order in Asia during the 1920s.” Paper presented at the international conference “International Health Organisations and the history of health and medicine, c.1870-2012,” Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, 18-20 October 2013.

“Uncivilized Mission: Transnational Migration of Japanese Prostitutes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the postgraduate conference “Migration, Mobility, and Movements: Crossing Borders in World History,” Northeastern University, Boston, US, 16-17 March 2013.

“Japanese Colonial Regulation of Prostitution and Changing Urban Landscapes in Northeastern China.” Paper presented at the postgraduate conference “Competing Visions: Changing Landscapes in the Past, Present, and Future,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US, 9 March 2013.

“At the Intersection of ‘Below’ and ‘Above’: Transnational Institutionalization of Public Health at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the Conference “Historiography and Nation since Pasyon and Revolution: Conference in Honor of Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto,” Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 8-9 February 2013.

“Unlawful Subject: Japanese Colonial Regulation of Prostitution Business in Northeastern China in the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the Workshop “Colonial Practices of Law, Police, and Punishment,” University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 20 November 2012.

“Strangers in White Uniform: American Nurses and the Transnational Origins of the U.S. Public Health.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15-18 November 2012.

“At the Crossroads of Modernity: the Emergence of the Modern Public Health System and the Colonial Philippines at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the World History Association Symposium “Southeast Asia and World History,” Pannasastra University, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2-4 January 2012.

“Creating Pitiful Deviants: the Institute for Child Research and the Emergence of the State Control over the Disabled Population in Tokyo, Japan.” Paper presented at the postgraduate conference “History of Psychiatry and Psychology,” Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College of London, UK, 19 March 2011.

“Disabled on Different Soils: Global Perspectives on Disability History.” Paper presented at the Disability History Group conference “Disability History: Looking Forward to a Better Past?” University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, 25-26 June 2010.

“Institutionalizing the Disabled Other: Social Policy over the ‘Feeble-Minded’ in the United States and Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the postgraduate conference “Scienticizing the Other: Science, Medicine and the Study of Human Difference, 1800-1950,” University of Cambridge, UK, 22 June 2010.

“Inventing Asian Selves in Modernity: Shinpei Goto and the Emergence of the Organic Theory of the State in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the First Asian Philosophy Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 6-9 March 2010.

“Professional Angels at War: Anita Newcomb McGee and the Professionalization of Nursing Service during the Spanish-American War.” Paper presented at the Workshop “Lives Beyond Borders: Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880–1960,” University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 12-13 February 2010.

“Coercion, Adaptation, and Amalgamation: Imperial Construction of ‘Japanese’ Ethnic Identity in the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the International Conference “Challenges of Ethnicity: the Local and the Global,” Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 25-27 November 2009.

“Transmission of the Idea on Mental Retardation from the United States to Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Transpacific Perspective on Disability History.” Paper presented at the 4th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China, 18-20 September 2009.

“Unbroken Strain of Defectives: Social Articulation of Mental Disability in New York City in the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the conference “Evolution and the Public (1859-2009): the Discussion of a Scientific Idea and its Ramifications since Charles Darwin,” University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, 3-5 September 2009.

“Children of Pity: The Transplantation of American Ideas on Mental Disability in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the conference of Cultural Typhoon 2009, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 3-5 July 2009.

“Ambivalent Enterprise: Cultural Representation of ‘Manchuria’ in the Social-Hygienic Activities of the Japanese Red Cross Society in the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the 2009 Harbin Conference “Global Challenge and Regional Response – Early Twentieth-Century Northeast China: Its Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Encounters with the World,” Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, 17-20 June 2009.

“Once Admitted: Federal Project of Immigrant Labor Exchange and National Welfare Policy, 1907-1918.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, US, 26-29 March 2009.

“Institutionalizing the Mind: Administrative Articulation of Mental Disability in New York City in the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the 5th Graduate History Symposium, the University of Toronto, Canada, 6-7 February 2009.

“Defective Citizens of To-morrow: Articulating Feeble-Mindedness of Children in New York City, 1900-1917.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK, 3-5 September 2008.

“The Ambiguous Terrain: the Articulation of Disability in the Municipal Administration of New York City, 1900-1916.” Paper presented at the conference “Disability History: Theory and Practice,” San Francisco State University, US, 1-3 August 2008.

“Across ‘the Hill to the Poorhouse’: Disability Policy in New York City on the Eve of World War I.” Paper presented at the 9th Annual Conference of GrASP (Japanese Association of Graduate Students in American Studies Programs), Waseda University, Japan, 19 July 2008.

Other Academic Activities

A. Journal Articles in Japanese

「植民地期フィリピンにおける保健衛生事業と赤十字人道主義」『アメリカ研究』56号 (2022年): 69-91頁。

「人道と人権の歴史学：歴史的視座の課題と展望」『歴史評論』844号 (2020年): 5-15頁。

「歴史・記憶・記録：歴史実践と路上のアクチュアリティ」『史苑』79巻2号 (2019年): 148-163頁。

「人道・帝国・植民地：第一次世界大戦期のアジア太平洋地域における国際赤十字運動」『人道研究ジャーナル』8号 (2019年): 50-60頁。

「広域圏・国際連関・越境空間：国際的視座の課題と展望」『歴史評論』792号 (2016年): 5-18頁。

「権利としての救済：1914年ニューヨーク市失業者救援運動と社会福祉システムの再編」『アメリカ史研究』35号 (2012年): 21-39頁。

B. Book Chapters in Japanese

「人道の地政学：ハワイにおける赤十字事業と人道主義をめぐる法文化の変容」石井紀子・今野裕子編『「法-文化圏」とアメリカ：20世紀トランスナショナル・ヒストリーの新視角』上智大学出版会 (2022年)、25-58頁。

「知的障害をめぐる思想の国際連関」歴史科学協議会編『知っておきたい歴史の新常識』勉誠出版 (2017年)、170-173頁。

C. Other Writings in Japanese

報告要旨「はじめに」「コメント１」〈特設部会〉パブリックヒストリーをめぐる探究・対話・協働：葛飾区立石における歴史実践『歴史学研究』1054号 (2024年増刊号): 177-179, 201-203頁。

「芸術実践と歴史実践：地域・アート・歴史」『歴史学研究』1053号 (2024年10月): 2-11頁。

書評『人権の世界史』(ピーター・N・スターンズ著 [上杉忍訳]、ミネルヴァ書房、2022年) 『現代史研究』69号 (2024年): 19-25頁。

討論要旨〈特設部会〉歴史学と社会をつなぐ：ワークショップからクラウドファンディングまで『歴史学研究』(2023年増刊号): 163-165頁。

報告批判〈近代史部会〉移動する人びとの『地域』：帰属意識のゆらぎ『歴史学研究』991号 (2019年12月): 47-49頁。

書評『医療化するアメリカ：身体管理の二〇世紀』(平体由美・小野直子編、彩流社、2017年) 『史苑』78巻2号 (2018年): 98-105頁。

書評『虫喰う近代：一九一〇年代社会衛生運動とアメリカの政治文化』(松原宏之著、ナカニシヤ出版、2013年) 『歴史評論』779号 (2015年): 95-100頁。

D. Conference Presentations in Japanese

「20世紀初頭ニューヨーク市における社会福祉制度と民衆生活」上智史学会第73回大会、上智大学、2023年11月19日。

「歴史・記憶・記録：歴史学と路上のアクチュアリティ」日本アメリカ史学会第15回年次大会、日本女子大学、2018年9月23日。

「第一次世界大戦後の国際人道主義運動とアメリカ赤十字社」上智史学会第67回大会、上智大学、2017年11月19日。

「越境するアクティビズム：20世紀前半アジア太平洋地域における国際赤十字運動」日本アメリカ史学会第13回年次大会、明治大学、2016年9月18日。

「20世紀初頭アメリカ合衆国における社会保障思想の形成」日本アメリカ史学会第9回例会、専修大学、2007年4月21日。

「社会的分断線の架橋：1914年ニューヨーク市における失業者救援運動と青年知識人」GrASP第6回大会、東京大学、2005年7月17日。

E. Academic Services

Organizing Board Member. Historical Science Society of Japan (June 2022-May 2024).

Editorial Board Member. Rekishi Hyoron, Association of Historical Science (June 2013-November 2022).

Administrative Board Member. Japanese Association for American History (September 2010-September 2013).

F. Adjunct Appointment

Visiting Researcher. Institute of American and Canadian Studies, Sophia University (April 2012-Present).

G. Other Activities

インタビュー「歴史を学んだ人は、内面で小さな革命を起こす」一橋大学HQウェブマガジン、2024年12月26日。https://www.hit-u.ac.jp/hq-mag/chat_in_the_den/576_20241226/

「協働と敵対性：立石企画の可能性と課題」上智史学会例会「地域の公共性から歴史学を考えなおす」上智大学、2024年11月2日。

「『協働』をめぐる可能性と課題：葛飾区立石におけるパブリックヒストリーの実験と実践」シンポジウム「歴史実践と『協働』の諸相：パブリックヒストリーの課題と展望、マイケル・H・フリッシュ氏を迎えて」慶應義塾大学、2024年8月26日。

Academic Talk. “The Politics of Benevolence: The Red Cross Movement in the Asia Pacific at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Paper presented at the Kerala Social Science Research Forum, Kerala, India (online), 17 December 2022.

Keynote Address. “At the Crossroads of the Past and Present: History and Memory in Urban Landscapes of Osaka.” Keynote address presented at the 10th Conference of Urban Space and Social Life, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, 14 June 2019.

Conference Presentation with undergraduate students. “On the Street Corner of Iron City: Gendered Process of Aging in Modern Japan.” Paper presented at the 16th Annual International Conference on Japanese Studies, Iloilo City, the Philippines, 1 February 2019.

Conference Presentation with undergraduate students. “Reinventing the Cityscape: Anime Pilgrimage and the Transformation of Collective Memory in Japan.” Paper presented at the Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, Anime Expo 2017, Los Angeles Convention Center, California, US, 3 July 2017.