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Jeffrey Hanes

Associate Professor

Office: 327 McKenzie
Office Hours: W 1pm-3pm and by appointment
Phone: 541-346-4837
e-mail: hanes@uoregon.edu

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Profile

Biographical Information

  • Associate Professor, specializing in Japanese Studies
  • B.A. 1973 at Williams College
  • M.A. 1978 at U.C. Berkeley
  • Ph.D in 1988 at U.C. Berkeley
  • With the U of O since 1993

Major Publications

  • "Mass Culture/Subcultures/Popular Culture: Modern Life in Interwar Japan" in Yoshimi Shunya, ed., Urban Space/Urban Body (in Japanese, 1996)
  • "From Megalopolis to Megaroporisu." Journal of Urban History 19:2 (February 1993)
  • Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
  • Social Science Research Council Research Fellow (1993, 1995)
  • Japan Foundation Research Fellow (1995)
  • Queen Excellence in Teaching Award in History, University of Illinois (1993)

Current Research and Writing

  • Books-in-progress: Biography of prewar Japanese urban reformer, Seki Hajime; history of modern Japanese urban planning ideas.
  • Research-in-progress: interwar Japanese media culture

Spring 2013 Courses

HIST 192 Japan: Past and Present
HIST 490 Modern Japan 1800-present

Course roster

HIST 192 Japan: Past and Present
HIST 399 The Pacific War
HIST 407 Seminar: Japan in the World
HIST 407 Seminar: Postwar Japanese Society
HIST 407 Modern Urban Japan
HIST 490 Modern Japan 1800-present
HIST 608 Colloquium: Reinventing Japan