OAH Delegates

OAH Delegates

Funded by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission

 

2024
Carl Bon Tempo (SUNY at Albany) / immigration history, refugee and human rights, U.S. politics

Host：Ayako Sahara, Kyoritsu Women’s University, Tokyo

 

Sam Lebovic (George Mason University) /Cold War history, security studies, media studies, Global cultural history

Host：Yutaka Sasaki, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto

 

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

 

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

 

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