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
• Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for
• Liberal Arts: History of Science Technology Medicine

Links

• Researching Japan
• Post-X Year - Nuclear testing in the Pacific

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

• East Asian Science and Technology Studies: advisory board member
• MCAA Vice President: 2020 - 2021
• Midwest Japan Seminar executive board member: 2019 - 2021
• AAS Council of Conference chair: 2017 - 2018
• AAS CoC: MCAA representative , 2016 - 2018
• MCAA Program Chair : 2018

Research

• 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:

Outreach

• Post-X Years film screening event: Radiation of Japanese fishermen in the 1950s by US nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, 2020 - Dec 2020

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): LinkDownload
• 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): LinkDownload
• 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
• Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian Soybean Trade: Geopolitics and Economic Strategies in China's Northeast, ca. 1870s-1920s: Mizuno, Hiromi, Ines Prodöhl, Taylor & Francis Online, Business History, Dec 2019. LinkDownload
• Mutant Rice and Agricultural Modernization in Asia: Mizuno, Hiromi, History and Technology, 36 360-381, 2020. Link

Awards

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