JUN UCHIDA

Assistant Professor of History

Email: junu@stanford.edu
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At Stanford Since 2006

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005
M.A., UC Berkeley, 1997
B.A., Cornell University, 1995

BIO SKETCH:

I completed my Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2005 and spent another year as a junior fellow of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, before joining the Stanford History Department this fall. I am currently preparing a book manuscript based on my dissertation entitled “Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945.” My book will re-examine colonial Korea as a form of settler colonialism and illustrate the complex and contingent dynamics of engagement among state, settlers, and Koreans. I am also looking at the history of decolonization—not only the dismantling of colonial authority on the Korean peninsula, but a more drawn-out process of repatriation and settlement as well as the politics of memory in postwar Japan. For my future long-term project, I plan to work on the cultural and economic history of soy sauce and trace its dynamic transformation on multiple spatial and temporal scales, from a local to an imperial product, and further to a global commodity.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Modern Japan
• Modern Korea
• Japanese imperialism and colonialism in Asia
• Comparative Colonialism
• Decolonization
• Oral history
• History of food and food ways

COURSES:

• Modern Japanese History (lecture)
• Modern Japan (graduate seminar)
• Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (undergraduate/graduate colloquium)
• Comparative Colonialism (freshman Seminar)

ARTICLES:

• “Between Collaboration and Conflict: State and Society in Wartime Korea” in Masato Kimura Tosh Minohara, eds, Tumultuous Decade: Japan’s Challenge to the International System, 1931-41 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2007), forthcoming
• “Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean business elites in colonial Korea” in Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen, eds., Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies (New York and London: Routledge, 2005).
• “Shokuminchiki Chosen ni okeru Dokaseisaku to Zaicho Nihonjin—Dominkai o jirei to shite [Assimilation Policy and Japanese Settlers in Colonial
Korea: A Case Study of the Dominkai]” in Chosenshi Kenkyukai, ed. Chosenshi Kenkyukai Ronbunshu [The Journal of Korean Studies], vol. 41 (October 2003).
• “Settler Colonialism: Japanese Merchants in Korea in the 1920s” in “Japanese Settler Colonialism and Capitalism in Japan: Advancing into Korea, Settling Down, and Returning to Japan, 1905-1950,” Harvard University Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies, no. 2002-03 (June 2002).
• “America ni okeru seiyo shokuminchi kenkyu – atarashii shiten no kaitaku [Recent Trends in Colonial Studies in the United States: Exploring New Perspectives]” in Nihon Shokuminchi Kenkyukai, ed., Nihon Shokuminchi Kenkyu [The Journal of Japanese Colonial Studies], vol. 13 (May 2001).

BOOK REVIEW:

• Takasaki Soji, Shokuminchi Chosen no Nihonjin [The Japanese in Colonial Korea] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002), Kankoku Chosen Bunka Kenkyukai, ed. Kankoku Chosen no bunka to shakai [Korean Culture and Society], vol. 2 (October 2003).

TRANSLATIONS:

• Pransenjit Duara, “Ethnos and Ethnology in Manchukuo,” translated into “Manshukoku ni okeru Minzoku to Minzokugaku,” in Iwanaki Koza: Ajia, Taiheiyo Senso, vol. 7: Shihai to boryoku (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006).
• Sandra Wilson, “Securing prosperity and serving the nation: Japanese farmers and Manchuria, 1931-33” in Ann Waswo and Nishida Yoshiaki, eds. Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), translated into Japanese for Nishida Yoshiaki and Ann Waswo, eds. Nijusseiki no Nihon noson shakai [The Farming Society in Twentieth-Century Japan] (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, forthcoming, 2005).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

• Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 2006
• Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 2004-2006
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Spring 2004
• Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 2002-2003
• Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship, Harvard University , 1998-2001
• Anne McIntyre Award in History, Cornell University, 1995