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Hiromi Mizuno

Contact Me

mizuno@umn.edu
612-626-7597

Department of History
941 HellerH

271 19th Ave S

Affiliations

History
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Liberal Arts: History of Science Technology Medicine
Center for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Links

Researching Japan

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

PhD: History, UCLA.

Specialties

modern Japan
intellectual and cultural history
cultural studies of science and technology
nationalism and colonialism
human rights and international laws
gender and sexuality
History of Food and Agriculture

Courses Taught

History of Modern Japan
Japanese Women and Feminisms
The Politics of Hunger: The Green Revolution and the World [Freshman seminar]
How the Samurai and the Geisha Became Japanese [upper-division]
War and Peace in Japanese Popular Culture [upper division]
Critical Asian Studies [graduate seminar]
Post-colonial/Cold War Asia [graduate seminar]
Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, & Bourdiue [graduate seminar}

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

AAS Council of Conference chair:
AAS CoC: MCAA representative
East Asian Science and Technology Studies: advisory board member

Research

Between Empires: Colonial Networks of Technology and Cold War Asia:
Technological Nostalgia and Japanese Colonial Memory:
Politics of Belonging: Population Policy in Postwar Japan:
Japanese immigration to the Dominican Republic:
Contradiction of Human Rights: "Comfort Women" and Statelessness:
History of Chemical Fertilizer in Japan:

Publications

Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order . Mizuno, Hiromi, Aaron S. Moore and John DiMoia, Bloomsbury, Co-Editor, 2018. Download
Mizuno, Hiromi. "Rasa Island: What Industrialization To Remember and Forget." Japan Focus 15 (Jan 2016): Link Download
Mizuno, Hiromi. "押し上げてもらう雁：帝国と技術協力 [The Flying Goose Needs To Be Pushed Up: Technical Aid and Empire]." Geidai shiso July 2015 (2015): Download
Mizuno, Hiromi, Ed., Tosh Minohara,Tze-ki Hon, and Evan Dawley. "The Science Room as An Archive: Taisho Japan and WWI." The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s (2014): Link Download
Hiromi Mizuno & Shigeru Nakayama. "Science and Nationalism." East Asian STS (Special Issue in 2 parts) 6 (1) & (3) (2012): Link
Mizuno, Hiromi. Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Mizuno, Hiromi. "When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desire in Anime." Mechademia 2 (December 2007): 104-123. Download