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Simon Partner, Associate Professor, History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	303 Classroom Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3014, (919) 684-1140
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/spartner

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HISTORY 159S.01, GTWY SEM: GRANDPARENTS Synopsis

  Class Bldg 125, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as DOCST 159S.01)

• HISTORY 703S.01, FOCUSING ON TCHNG & PEDAGOGY Synopsis

  Class Bldg 125, Tu 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Columbia University	1997
M.Phil.	Columbia University	1994
M.A.	Columbia University	1993
M.A.	University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)	1985
M.B.A.	University of Manchester (United Kingdom)	1984
B.A.	University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)	1980

Specialties:

Cultural History
African, Middle East and Asia

Research Interests:

20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social changes; Japanese rural society

Keywords:

Asia • Japan • History • Consumerism • Technology • Rural Society

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Jackson, E; Partner, S, Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City (2013), MacFarland & Company, Inc.  [author's comments]
2. Partner, S, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925 (May, 2009), University of California Press
3. Partner, S, Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan (2004), University of California Press [102-1008339-5256135]  [abs]
4. Partner, S, Assembled in Japan: Electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer (April, 2023), pp. 1-317, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 9780520219397 (292 pages.) [102-1008339-5256135]  [abs]
5. Partner, S, Peasants into citizens?: The Meiji village in the Russo-Japanese war, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 2 (January, 2007), pp. 179-209, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0027-0741 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
6. Partner, S, Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (December, 2001)
7. Partner, S, Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside, 1950–1970, Enterprise and Society, vol. 1 no. 4 (January, 2000), pp. 762-784, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]