Simon C Partner
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 303 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-5464, (919) 684-1140 |
| Email Address: | spartner@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Columbia University, 1997
- A-Level Winchester College, 1975
Research Interests
Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social changes; Japanese rural society
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Kokugakuin University Research Fellowship, June to November, 2005
- Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
- Smith Faculty Enrichment Fellowship, Duke University, Fall 2003
- Fulbright Research Fellowship, September 2000 - May 2001
- Rikkyo University Foreign Research Fellowship, 2000, May-November
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award (for postdoctoral research), 1997-8
- Japan Foundation Fellowship (for dissertation research), 1995-6
- Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University (for graduate study), 1995
- HISTORY 143A.01, ANCIENT/EARLY MOD JAPAN
Synopsis
- Carr 240, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Representative Publications
Books- Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan (University of California Press, 2004). [102-1008339-5256135] [abs]
- Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 292 pages [102-1008339-5256135] [abs]
- "Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan." Monumenta Nipponica 56:4 (December, 2001).
- "Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside." Enterprise And Society 1:4 (December, 2000).
- John Dower, "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II". Monumenta Nipponica 55:1 (March, 2000).
- Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds., "Culture and Technology in Modern Japan". Waseda Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2000).