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Assistant Professor Todd Henry (On leave 2008-09) |
Education:
Ph.D., History, University of California at Los Angeles (2006)
M.A., History, University of California at Los Angeles (2001)
M.A., International Relations (Modern Japanese History), Sophia University,
Tokyo, Japan (1999)
B.A., International Affairs (East Asian Studies), The George Washington
University (1996) - Summa Cum Laude
Specializing in: Modern Japanese and Korean History
Current Research Interests:
Japanese Colonialism in East Asia (especially Korea), Critical Studies of Cities and Space, History of Gender and Sexuality
Teaches the following courses:
HIST 121: Asian Civilizations II: China, Japan, and Korea in the
Modernizing World of East Asia, 1600-Present
HIST 455: Tokugawa & Modern Japan: The Emergence of a World Power,
1600-Present
HIST 456: East Asia in the Age of Empire, 1800-Present: Histories
& Legacies of Japanese Imperialism
HIST 481: Modern Tokyo: City Spaces and Urban Cultures of 20th Century
Japan
HIST 492 (Capstone Seminar): Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese
History
HIST 492 (Capstone Seminar): Race, Power, and Culture: The US and
Americans in Modern Japan
Major Publications:
- Keijō: The Japanese Assimilation of Koreans and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Seoul, 1910-45 (book manuscript in progress)
- “Urban Sanitation and the Colonial City: Korean Engagements with Hygienic Modernity” in Korea's Colonialisms: A Reader (forthcoming)
- “Assimilation from a Distance: Shintō Shrines, Festival Celebrations, and the Limits of ‘Japanization’ in Colonial Korea, 1910-37” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 35, no. 2 (Summer 2009)
- “Re-Spatializing Chosŏn’s Royal Capital: The Politics of Urban Reforms in Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-19” in Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography, Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea, eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008)
- “Lifestyles in the Gay Bars” (translation) in Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker’s (eds.) Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from Japan’s Sexual Minorities (Lanham: Lexington Press, 2007)
- “Choson's Adoption of International Law and its Conflicts with China in the 1880s” by Yi T'ae-jin in Dynamics of Confucianism and Modernization in Korean History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007)
- “Keijō: Japanese and Korean Constructions of Colonial Seoul and the History of its Lived Spaces, 1910-37,” PhD Dissertation, UCLA, 2006
- “Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Korean Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-19, ” Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 64, no. 3 (August 2005)
- “Inabata Katsutarō (1862-1947) and Non-Governmental Economic Diplomacy between Japanand Turkey” (translation) in Selcuk Esenbel and Inaba Chiharu’s (eds.) The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent: New Perspectives on the History of Japanese-Turkish Relations (Istanbul: Bogazici University Press, 2003)
Fellowships/Major Grants:
- Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard
University, 2008-9
- “Male-Male Sexual Cultures in US-Occupied Japan, 1945-52,”
Professional Development Grant, Colorado State University, 2007
- Faculty Fellow Program, University of California at San Diego, 2006-8 (declined)
- Fulbright IIE (accepted) and Hays (declined) Grants, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2004-2005
- Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research, Department of Korean History, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2003-2004
- UCLA Department of History Recruitment Fellowship, 1999-2003
- Monbushō (Japanese Ministry of Education) Fellowship, 1996-1999