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Jun Uchida

Assistant Professor of History

E-mail: 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

Research Interests

  • Modern Japan
  • Colonial Korea
  • Japanese empire in Asia
  • Comparative empires
  • Settler colonialism
  • History of immigration and diaspora
  • Decolonization and politics of memory
  • Oral history

Courses

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

Books

Book cover: Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 (Harvard University Asia Center; Harvard UP), November 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

  • "A Sentimental Journey: Mapping the Interior Frontier of Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea," Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 70, no. 3 (August 2011): 706-729.
  • “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, forthcoming).
  • “Ch’ongnyŏkch’ŏn sigi e issŏsŏ ŭi chae Chosŏn Ilbonin ŭi ‘naesŏn ilch’e’ chŏngch’aek e taehan hyŏmnyŏk [Japanese Settlers’ Collaboration with ‘Naisen Ittai’ Policy in Colonial Korea under Total War],” Asea Yŏn’gu [Asian Studies] (Seoul: Koryŏ Taehakkyo) vol. 51, no. 1 (Spring 2008). A revised version appears in Henry Em and Kwak Chun-hyŏk, eds., Kundaesŏng ŭi yŏksŏl: Han’gukhak kwa Ilbonhak ŭi kyŏnggye lul nŏmo [Entangled Modernities: Crossings between Korean and Japanese Studies], (Seoul: Humanitas, 2009).
  • “ ‘A Scramble for Freight’: the Politics of Collaboration along and across the Railway Tracks of Colonial Korea,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 51:1 (January 2009).
  • “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 Chōsen ni okeru Dōkaseisaku to Zaichō Nihonjin—Dōminkai o jirei to shite [Assimilation Policy and Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea: A Case Study of the Dōminkai],” Chōsenshi Kenkyūkai Ronbunshū [Journal of Korean Studies] (Tokyo: Ryokuin Shobō), 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 seiyō shokuminchi kenkyū – atarashii shiten no kaitaku [Recent Trends in Colonial Studies in the United States: Exploring New Perspectives],” Nihon Shokuminchi Kenkyū [Journal of Japanese Colonial Studies] (Tokyo: Atenesha), vol. 13 (May 2001).

Book Review

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

Translations

  • Pransenjit Duara, “Ethnos and Ethnology in Manchukuo,” translated into “Manshūkoku ni okeru Minzoku to Minzokugaku,” in Iwanami Kōza: Ajia, Taiheiyō Sensō, vol. 7: Shihai to bōryoku (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 Nihon no nōmin to nōson (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2006).

Fellowships and Awards

  • Freeman Spogli Institute Stanford Society of Fellows in Japanese Studies Grant, 2010.
  • Korea Institute & Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2008-2009.          
  • 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