Hiromi Mizuno

Publications

• Mizuno, Hiromi. Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 2009.
• Mizuno, Hiromi, Aaron S. Moore and John DiMoia. Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order . Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Mizuno, Hiromi. "Japan’s Agriculture, the Empire, and Postwar Reconstruction." Cambridge History of Japan, 2nd ed (2023).
• Mizuno, Hiromi. "After the Empire: Postwar Emigration to the Dominican Republic and Economic Diplomacy." Japanese Empire and Latin America (2023).
• Mutant Rice and Agricultural Modernization in Asia: Mizuno, Hiromi, History and Technology, 36, 360-381, 2020.
• Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian Soybean Trade: Geopolitics and Economic Strategies in China's Northeast, ca. 1870s-1920s: Ines Prodöhl, Mizuno, Hiromi, Business History, 65, 338-372.
• Mizuno, Hiromi. "Rasa Island: What Industrialization To Remember and Forget." Japan Focus 15 (Jan 2016).
• Mizuno, Hiromi. "When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desire in Anime." Mechademia 2 (December 2007): 104-123.
• Mizuno, Hiromi, Hiromi Mizuno & Shigeru Nakayama. "Science and Nationalism." East Asian STS (Special Issue in 2 parts) 6 (1) & (3) (2012).
• Mizuno, Hiromi. "Notes on Miyazaki’s Wind Rises." Studies on Asia 7 : https://studiesonasia.scholasticahq.com/article/36729-resource-notes-on-miyazaki-s-wind-rises.
• 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).
• Mizuno, Hiromi. "「視点としての技術協力：帝国アジアと冷戦アジア」『文化冷戦と知の展開』 [“Technical aid as a perspective,” in Knowledge and Cultural Cold War: America’s Strategy, East Asia’s Logic] ." Knowledge and Cultural Cold War: America’s Strategy, East Asia’s Logic .
• 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).

Activities

Awards

• The 2024 Vernon Carstensen Memorial Best Article Award, “Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique,” Agricultural History, vol. 98, no. 4 (Nov 2024)
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2021-2022, 2021- 2022
• Science for the Empire awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2009
• Environmental Humanities Initiative Fellowship, 2020-2025
• Hoover Institute/EA Library, Stanford University, research grant, 2016
• The Japan Foundation, long-term research grant, 2014-2015

Courses

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