Christopher Gerteis
(クルストファー ガータイス)Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Academic Editor and Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
- Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), East Asian Languages & Cultures, SOAS University of London
- Degree
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PhD(The University of Iowa)
- Other name(s) (e.g. nickname)
- Byron-Gerteis Christopher
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 201901004736581060
- researchmap Member ID
- B000355945
- External link
I am an historian of Modern and Contemporary Japan. As a scholar I am particularly interested in the history of class and gender.
My first book, Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (Harvard, 2010), is an interdisciplinary study of the forgotten history of wage-earning Japanese women who during the 1950s militantly contested the socialist labor movement's revival of many prewar notions of normative gender roles.
My second book, Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Cornell 2021), examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who chose to engage in radical politics during the 1960s and 1970s. It unpacks how notions of class and gender shaped the discourses produced by, and for, young men and women of the 'Sixties Generation'.
I am also Founding Series Editor of the academic monograph series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, published in association with Bloomsbury and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies, published by Cambridge University Press.
Research Areas
4Major Books and Other Publications
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Cornell University Press, 2021 (ISBN: 9781501756313)
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Critical readings on the history of industrialization in modern Japan v. 3 (Twentieth Century Japan)Brill, 2012 (ISBN: 9789004212329)
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Critical readings on the history of industrialization in modern Japan v. 2 (Meiji Industrialization)Brill, 2012 (ISBN: 9789004212312)
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Brill, 2012 (ISBN: 9789004212305)
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Bloomsbury, 2012 (ISBN: 9781441101181)
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Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2010 (ISBN: 9780674035690)
Papers
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東京外国語大学国際日本学研究報告, 2(2) 5-10, Mar, 2018
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 122(2) 507-508, Apr, 2017 Invited
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東京外国語大学国際日本学研究報告, 1(1) 39-42, Mar, 2017
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The Asia-Pacific Journal, 12(8.3), 2014 Invited
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Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters & Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s)MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2013 Invited
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MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2013 Invited
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Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble, Dec, 2012 Peer-reviewed
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 117(5) 1569-1570, Dec, 2012 Invited
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Recreating Japanese Men, 135, Oct, 2011 Peer-reviewedInvited
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SOCIAL SCIENCE JAPAN JOURNAL, 14(1) 80-82, 2011 Invited
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 115(5) 1462-1463, Dec, 2010 Invited
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JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 69(3) 909-912, Aug, 2010
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JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 67(3) 1098-1100, Aug, 2008 Invited
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JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 67(1) 326-328, Feb, 2008 Invited
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大原社会問題研究所雑誌, (591) 10-14, Feb, 2008 Invited
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Journal of Religion and Society, 10 1-6, 2008 Invited
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LABOR HISTORY, 49(2) 260-261, 2008 Invited
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LABOR HISTORY, 49(2) 253-255, 2008 Invited
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JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 66(3) 848-849, Aug, 2007 Invited
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CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, 39(1) 3-34, 2007 Peer-reviewedInvited
Research History
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Aug, 2008 - Jun, 2009
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Aug, 2006 - Jul, 2008
Education
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Aug, 1993 - Dec, 2001
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Jan, 1987 - Dec, 1992