Curriculum Vitae

Simon Partner

Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719 +1 919 684 3014 (office)
(email)
Education

Ph.D.Columbia University1997
M.Phil.Columbia University1994
M.A.Columbia University1993
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
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor, Department of History, 2011 - present
Associate Professor, Department of History, 2003 - 2011
Assistant Professor, Department of History, 1997 - 2003
Japan Research Associates, Inc.
President, 1991 - 1997
Consulting on the Japanese economy and business
BEI/Golembe Associates
Vice President, 1984 - 1990
Staff consultant specializing in international banking, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions
Grindlays Bank PLC
Management trainee, 1980 - 1982
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2012-2014
Partnership in a Global Age, Mellon Foundation, 2013-2014
Research Fellowship in Japan, Japan Foundation, 2005-2006
Japan Foundation Fellowship, Japan Foundation, 2012-2014
Smith Faculty Enrichment Fellowship, Duke University, Fall 2003
Research Fellowship in Japan, Fulbright Scholar Program, September 2000 - May 2001
Rikkyo University Visiting Professorship, Rikkyo University, 2010-2014
Traditional Fulbright Scholarship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1997-8
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Japan Foundation, 1995-6
Professional Service

Departmental Committee
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2012 - present  
Chair, Speakers' Committee, 2008 - 2009  
Chair, Sachsenmaier Renewal Committee, Fall 2008  
Computer Liaison Committee, 2002 - present  
Department Executive Committee, July, 2001 - 2009 (except when on leave  
Chair, Modern China Search Committee, 2012 - 2013  
Chair, South Asia search committee, September, 2006 - December, 2006  
Chair, Carnegie Initiative on Graduate Education, September, 2004 - May, 2005  
Honors Thesis Review Committee, April, 2003  
Department Executive Committee, July, 1999 - May, 2000  
Honors Thesis Review Committee, April, 2000  
University Committee
Dean's Advisory Group on Hiring in East Asia, 2012 - present  
Chair, Tang Chair Search Committee, July 31, 2013 - May 31, 2014  
Smith Faculty Enrichment Fellowship Selection Committee, 2003 - 2004  
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Executive Committee, September, 2001 - 2003  
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Speakers’ Committee, September, 1998 - May, 2000  
Fulbright Fellowship Evaluation Committee (Duke internal committee), October, 1999 - November, 1999  
Mellon Scholarship Evaluation Committee (Duke internal committee), February, 1999 - April, 1999  
University Service
Faculty Advisor, Duke East Asia Nexus, 2012 - present  
Triangle Center for Japanese Studies Executive Committee, 2011 - present  
Director, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, 2009 - present  
Organizer, Triangle Japan Forum, 1 July 2002  
Faculty Advisor, Duke Kendo Club, 2001 - present  
Departmental Service
Organizer, History Department Colloquium, 2006 - 2009  
Organizer, History Department Faculty Colloquium on “Narratives of the Individual”, 2001 - 2002  
Service to the Community
Clerk, Peace and Social Concerns Committee, Durham Friends Meeting, January 01, 2013 - present  
ESL Teaching, 2011 - 2012  
Murder Victims Website, 2008 - present  
Community Activities
Duke Japanese language partner program, 1998 - 2000  
faculty advisor, Language Dorm, Japan Floor, September, 1999 - May, 2000  
advisor and facilitator, Toyama-Durham school exchange, October, 1999  
Selected Recent Invited Talks

The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan, 1 November 2018  
Dreams Deferred: A Japanese Villager and her Community, 1925-1970, Vienna, Austria, 1 June 2016  
Japan in the Eyes of the World: Visual Culture in 19th Century Yokohama, Heidelberg, Germany, 1 May 2016  
Reluctant Embrace: Bodily Encounters in the Yokohama Treaty Port, Heidelberg, Germany, 1 May 2016  
Marketing the Japanese Economic Miracle: The Case of the Electrical Goods Industry, Haifa, Israel, 1 March 2016  
Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama, Goettingen, Germany, 1 March 2016  
Media, visual culture, performance: Contesting and creating “Japan” in 1860’s Yokohama, Heidelberg, Germany, 1 January 2016  
Small Town, Big Dreams: Yokohama Merchants in the 1860s, Cambridge, MA, 1 April 2015  
In the Land of the Gods, Durham, NC, 1 December 2012  
Mummies, Mudras and Madmen: In Search of God in the Mountains of Japan., Chapel Hilll, NC, 1 December 2012  
Postwar Japan as History, Meiji University, Tokyo, July 2011  
Mummies, Mudras and Madmen, UNC, Chapel Hill, December 3, 2010  
Travel Narratives of East Asia, UNC Chapel Hill, November 12, 2009  
Toshie: The Transformation of the Japanese Countryside, 1925-1975, Duke, November 13, 2008  
Fuqua Business School Lecture on Japan, April 29, 2008  
NCTAN Teachers' Workshop, Wilmington, NC, March 30, 2008  
Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer, Duke History, March 01, 2008  
Business and the Consumer: Who Created Whom?, Southern Japan Conference, Miami, November, 2006  
Nihon no shoshisha ha doko kara kimashita ka? (Where did the Japanese consumer come from?), Tokyo, June 13, 2006  
An Overview of Japan's Postwar Experience, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, March 24, 2005  
The Story of Haruko, Engaging Faculty series, Duke University, January 29, 2004  
Coercion and Consent: The Home Front in Japan, Duke University, "The Weight of War" series, February 26, 2003  
Nihon no denki sangyo to juyo sosaku-1950 nendai ni oite (The Japanese electrical goods industry and market creation in the 1950s), ISICS Cultural Studies Program, University of Tokyo, June 2001  
Graduate Studies and Trends in the Academy, Japan-United States Educational Commission, Tokyo, March 2001  
20-seiki Nihon noson ni okeru seikatsu kaizen undo (The Lifestyle Improvement movement in 20th century rural Japan), Kanto chapter meeting of the Social and Economic Hisotry Society (Shakai Keizaishi Gakkai), December 2000  

Publications

Books

  1. Partner, S, Koume's World (2024), pp. 1-289, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  2. Partner, S, Koume’s World The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration (December, 2023), pp. 203 pages, Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231559102
  3. 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.)
  4. Partner, S, Merchant's Tale (2018), pp. 1-291, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  5. Partner, S, The Merchant's Tale Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (December, 2017), Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231544467
  6. Jackson, E; Partner, S, Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City (2013), MacFarland & Company, Inc.
  7. Partner, S, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925 (May, 2009), University of California Press
  8. Partner, S, Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan (2004), University of California Press
  9. Partner, S, Saying Yes to Japanese Investment (1992), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall
  10. Partner, S, Mergers and Acquisitions Manual (1991), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall

Papers Published

  1. Partner, S, Art and Gender in an Age of Revolution, Japan Review, vol. 2021 no. 36 (January, 2021), pp. 61-87
  2. Partner, S, Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945, JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES, vol. 46 no. 1 (December, 2020), pp. 195-199, SOC JAPANESE STUD
  3. Partner, S, DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN, PACIFIC AFFAIRS, vol. 93 no. 4 (2020), pp. 818-820
  4. Partner, S, Making Medicine a Business: X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895–1945. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xiv + 199 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth. $139.99. ISBN: 978-981-10-8158-3., Business History Review, vol. 93 no. 02 (2019), pp. 421-423, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  5. Partner, S, Japan’s global peace moment, Japan Forum, vol. 30 no. 4 (October, 2018), pp. 543-563, Informa UK Limited
  6. Partner, S, Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 by Samuel Hideo Yamashita, The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 43 no. 1 (2017), pp. 189-193, Project MUSE
  7. Partner, S, Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry by Jeffrey W. Alexander (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 41 no. 2 (June, 2015), pp. 392-397, Project MUSE
  8. Partner, S, Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan by Andrew Gordon (review), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 73 no. 1 (June, 2013), pp. 211-215, Project MUSE
  9. Partner, S, Review of Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War by Penelope Francks, The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 106-109
  10. Partner, S, Review of Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan by David Ambaras, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 3 (January, 2007), pp. 372-374
  11. 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
  12. Partner, S, Review of Isami's house: Three centuries of a Japanese family by Gail Bernstein, JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, vol. 38 no. 2 (2007), pp. 339-340, ISSN 0022-1953
  13. Partner, S, Review of Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village by Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 60 (December, 2005)
  14. Partner, S, Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation, 1924-1938 (review), Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 60 no. 4 (December, 2005), pp. 533-535, Project MUSE
  15. Partner, S, Review of Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda, MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, vol. 59 no. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 143-145, ISSN 0027-0741
  16. Partner, S, Review of A Time of Crisis by Kerry Smith, Agricultural History, vol. 76 no. 4 (Fall, 2002), pp. 713-715, UNIV CALIF PRESS
  17. Partner, S, Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (December, 2001)
  18. Partner, S, Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965., Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (January, 2001), pp. 487-520
  19. 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)
  20. Partner, S, Review of Culture and Technology in Modern Japan: Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds., edited by Inkster, I; Satofuka, F, Waseda Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 22 (2000)
  21. Partner, S, Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II, MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, vol. 55 no. 1 (2000), pp. 128-129, JSTOR, ISSN 0027-0741
  22. Partner, S, Review of Japan’s Postwar Economy: Erich Pauer, ed., Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 (September, 1999)
  23. Partner, S, Review of Sengo Nihon no Nögyöshi [A Postwar History of Japanese Agriculture] by Ino Ryüichi, Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 6 (1999)
  24. Partner, S; Pauer, E, Japan's War Economy, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 no. 3 (1999), pp. 403-403, JSTOR
  25. Partner, S, Manufacturing Desire: The “Electrical Lifestyle” and the Nurturing of the Japanese Consumer, Social Science Japan, vol. 12 (March, 1998) (Special Issue on the 1950s.)

Book Chapters

  1. Partner, S, THE ARTIST'S LIFE, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 164-188, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  2. Partner, S, IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLACK SHIPS, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 62-93, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  3. Partner, S, A YEAR OF CALAMITIES, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 41-61, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  4. Partner, S, KOUME'S WORLD THE LIFE AND WORK OF A SAMURAI WOMAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE MEIJI RESTORATION CONCLUSION, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 227-252, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  5. Partner, S, WAR AND REVOLUTION, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 124-163, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  6. Partner, S, KOUME'S WORLD THE LIFE AND WORK OF A SAMURAI WOMAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE MEIJI RESTORATION PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. VII-+, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  7. Partner, S, GROWING UP IN KISHU DOMAIN, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 12-40, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  8. Partner, S, ACROSS THE DIVIDE, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 189-226, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  9. Partner, S, WORK AND FAMILY, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 94-123, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  10. Partner, S, Small Town, Big Dreams A Yokohama Merchant and the Transformation of Japan, in MEIJI RESTORATION (2020), pp. 62-82
  11. Partner, S, OUT OF THIN AIR (1859-1860), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 1-40, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  12. Partner, S, YEARS OF STRUGGLE (1860-1864), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 41-90, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  13. Partner, S, PROSPERITY (1864-1866), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 91-141, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  14. Partner, S, TRANSFORMATION (1866-1873), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 143-206, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  15. Partner, S, THE MERCHANT'S TALE INTRODUCTION, in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. XVII-+, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  16. Partner, S, THE POWER OF A PLACE CONCLUSION, in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 207-225, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  17. Partner, S, Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45, in The Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia, edited by Lone, S (2007), Greenwood Press

Book Reviews

  1. Penelope Francks, Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the nineteenth century to the Pacific War, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (Winter, 2008)
  2. Gail Bernstein, Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 38 no. 2 (2007)
  3. David Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 3 (2007)
  4. Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds., Culture and Technology in Modern Japan, edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka, Waseda Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 22 (2000)
  5. Ino Ryüichi, Sengo Nihon no Nögyöshi [A Postwar History of Japanese Agriculture], Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 6 (Fall, 1999)
  6. Erich Pauer, ed., Japan’s Postwar Economy, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 no. 3 (September, 1999)

Other

  1. Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45 (2007), Greenwood Press
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