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Hiromi Mizuno

Hiromi Mizuno

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Department of History 941 HellerH

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • modern Japan
  • intellectual and cultural history
  • cultural studies of science and technology
  • nationalism and colonialism
  • human rights and international laws
  • gender and sexuality

Publications

  • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan. Mizuno, Hiromi, Stanford University Press,, Author, 2008.
  • "When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desire in Anime": Mizuno, Hiromi, Mechademia, 2 104-123, December 2007.
  • book review: Metaphirocal Circuit: Negotiations between Literature and Science in 20th Century Japan, by Joseph Murphy: Mizuno, Hiromi, Journal of Asian Studies, v. 65, n.3, 631-632, August 2006.
  • Science, Ideology, Empire: the History of the "Scientific" in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s,. Mizuno, Hiromi, University of California, Los Angeles dissertation, Author, 2001.
  • Joan Arai and Imayo Suzuki. Mizuno, Hiromi, 2001.

Research Activities

  • Politics of Belonging: Population Policy in Postwar Japan
  • Japanese immigration to the Dominican Republic
  • Contradiction of Human Rights: "Comfort Women" and Statelessness
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009
  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

    June 5th, 2009
  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

    June 5th, 2009

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