Hiromi Mizuno

Publications

• Mizuno, Hiromi. Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 2009.
• Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order . Aaron S. Moore and John DiMoia, Bloomsbury, Mizuno, Hiromi, 2018.
• Mutant Rice and Agricultural Modernization in Asia: Mizuno, Hiromi, History and Technology, 36, 360-381, 2020.
• 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.
• Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian Soybean Trade: Geopolitics and Economic Strategies in China's Northeast, ca. 1870s-1920s: Ines Prodöhl, Taylor & Francis Online, Mizuno, Hiromi, Business History, Dec 2019.
• Mizuno, Hiromi, Hiromi Mizuno & Shigeru Nakayama. "Science and Nationalism." East Asian STS (Special Issue in 2 parts) 6 (1) & (3) (2012).
• 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. "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

• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2021- 2022
• Science for the Empire awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2009
• Environmental Humanities Initiative Fellowship, 2020-2021

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