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Curriculum Vitae
Simon PartnerClick here for a printer-ready version, or
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Duke University Department of History
Campus Box 90719
Durham, NC 27708
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(919) 684-3014, (919) 684-1140 (office)
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- 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 |
- 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
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- Koume’s World: Writing the Life of a Samurai Woman, 28 October 2024
- Joryū gaka Kawai Koume no Sekai, Wakayama, Japan, 14 July 2024
- 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 [html]
- 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 (listed separately)
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