Past Recipients of the Japan Residencies

2012

• Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth / Ehime University (U.S. foreign relations in the Cold War era)
• Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University / Yamaguchi University (the history of race and ethnicity)

2011

• Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan / University of Kitakyushu (American Jewish history)
• Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley / Hitotsubashi University (history of race and gender)

2010

• Mark Dyreson, Pennsylvania State University / Musashi University (American sports history)
• Ariela J.Gross, University of Southern California / Kyoto University (history of race and racial ideologies in the United States)

2009

• Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University / Keio University (southern history and culture)
• Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University / Nagoya City University (U.S. ethnic and immigration history)

2008

• Elaine H. Kim, University of California, Berkeley / Waseda University (Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies)
• Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University / University of the Ryukyus (Japanese American History, Asian Studies, and Ethnic Studies)

2007

• Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York, Binghamton / Tokyo Woman's Christian University (U.S. women’s history)
• Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania / Nanzan University (modern American history with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, and labor)

2006

• Donald L. Fixico, Arizona State University / Rikkyo University (American Indian history)
• Leo P. Ribuffo, The George Washington University / Sophia University (20th-century U.S. history)
• Paul R. Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara / Kansai University (Japanese American history)

2005

• Kim E. Nielsen, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay / Japan Women's University, Tokyo (gender history)
• T. Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College & State University / Kyoritsu University, Tokyo (diplomatic and cultural history)

2004

• Thomas L. Haskell, Rice University / International Christian University, Tokyo (religious history until the Great Awakening)
• Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida / Kyushu University, Fukuoka (diplomatic history after World War II)
• G. Kurt Piehler, The University of Tennessee / Kobe University (modern and contemporary American imperialism)

2003

• John M. Findlay, University of Washington / Hiroshima University (history of the American West)
• Theresa Kaminski, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point / Chiba University (20th-century women's history)
• Michael Schudson, University of California-San Diego / Doshisha University, Kyoto (news media history)

2002

• Davison M. Douglas, William & Mary School of Law / Tohoku University, Sendai (contemporary history)
• David Farber, University of New Mexico / Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo (20th century political history and social movements)
• Beth Bailey, University of New Mexico / Saitama University, Saitama City (19th and 20th century cultural history, popular culture, and gender)

2001

• Judith Stein, The City University of New York / Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (African American history)
• James Barrett, University of Illinois / Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka (immigration, race, and ethnicity)
• Katherine G. Aiken, University of Idaho / Rikkyo University, Tokyo (women, environmental, popular culture)

2000

• Mary Logan Rothschild, Arizona State University / Japan Women's University, Tokyo (women's history)
• Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California School of Law / Hokkaido University (political and intellectual history)
• Michael A. Bernstein, University of California, San Diego / Sophia University, Tokyo (intellectual and economic history)

1999

• Casey Blake, Washington University-St. Louis / Tsuda College, Tokyo (intellectual and cultural history)
• Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles / University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo (women's history)
• Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington / Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya (film history)

1998

• Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University / Tohoku University, Sendai (intellectual history)
• Eileen Boris, University of Virginia / Tokyo Woman's Christian University (women's and labor history)
• Robert Goldberg, University of Utah / Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (history of conservatism)

1997

• Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College / International Christian University, Tokyo (American studies and social history)
• John W. Chambers, Rutgers University / University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Faculty of Law (20th century and peace and war studies)
• Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Cornell University / Doshisha University, Kyoto (women's history)