Simon Partner, Associate Professor

Simon Partner
Contact Info:
Office Location:  338 Carr Bldg
Office Phone:  919 684 5464
Email Address:   send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2026):

  • HISTORY 159S.01, GTWY SEM: GRANDPARENTS Synopsis
    Class Bldg 106, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
  • HISTORY 226.01, ANCIENT AND EARLY MODERN JAPAN Synopsis
    Class Bldg 240, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 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

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 (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 [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].

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