Michael J. Allen North Carolina State University Department of History Box 8108 Raleigh, NC 27695-8108 919.767.1172 [email protected] 1. EMPLOYMENT_________________________________________________ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, NC (2003-present) Assistant Professor of U.S. history 2. EDUCATION ______________________________________________ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston, IL (1997-2003) Degrees: Ph.D., December 2003; M.A., December 1998 Dissertation: “The War’s Not Over Until the Last Man Comes Home”: Body Recovery And The Vietnam War Dissertation Committee: Michael Sherry (chair), Nancy MacLean, Laura Hein Major Field: U.S. History Minor Field: U.S.-East Asian Relations in the Cold War Master’s Thesis: “Seeketh That Which is Gone Astray”: Finding the Meaning of Prisoner of War Defection Following the Korean War THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL (1992-96) Degree: A.B. with honors, June 1996 Concentration: History Honors Thesis: From Normal to Neurotic: Psychoneurotic World War II Veterans and the Roots of Postwar Anxiety Thesis Adviser: George Chauncey 3. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS__________________________ PROFESSIONAL CHASS Scholarly Project Award, North Carolina State University (2006) Pride of the Wolfpack Award, North Carolina State University (2004) CHASS Summer Research Grant, North Carolina State University (2004) GRADUATE Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University (2002-03) Kaplan Center for the Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University (2001-02) The Dirksen Congressional Center Research Award (2001) Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Grant (2000) Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University (2000) University Fellow, Northwestern University (1997-98) UNDERGRADUATE General Honors in The College, The University of Chicago (1996) Honors in the History Concentration, The University of Chicago (1996) Dean’s List, The University of Chicago (1993-96) Ph.D. in Public History Request for Authorization to Establish a New Degree Program Richter Grant for Summer Research, The University of Chicago (1996) Marshall Wais Scholarship, The University of Chicago (1994-95) 4. PUBLICATIONS_________________________________________________ Until the Last Man Comes Home: Body Recovery and the Politics of Loss After the Vietnam War, book manuscript under review at the University of North Carolina Press. “‘Help Us Tell the Truth About Vietnam’: POW/MIA Politics and the End of the American War,” book chapter in Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young, eds., Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. “‘Sacrilege of a Strange, Contemporary Kind’: The Unknown Soldier and the Imagined Community After Vietnam,” article in second round reviews, The Journal of American History. “‘Stolen Honor’ Skews Its View of Vietnam,” Raleigh News & Observer, October 27, 2004, 19A. “Liberation,” Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, ABC-CLIO, 2000, 169-173. “The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission,” Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, ABC-CLIO, 2000, 204-205. 5. ACADEMIC PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS______________________ “Memory, Mourning, and the Missing Dead in American Military History,” The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (2006) “Artifacts of Loss: Lost Bodies and Lost Wars in American Mourning,” The American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2005) “Flip-Flop: John Kerry And Public Memory Of The Vietnam War,” The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, College Park, MD (2005) “‘Once We Met As Adversaries; Today We Work As Partners’: Body Recovery in U.S.-Vietnamese Relations, 1973-2000,” The Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA (2005) “The Never-Ending Search: The Memorial Politics of Body Recovery After the Vietnam War,” The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2004) “Leave No Man Behind: Body Recovery as Casualty Aversion After the Vietnam War,” Triangle Institute for Security Studies New Faces Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC (2003) “The Aftermath of the Vietnam War;” Interview with Talking History Broadcast/Internet Radio Program; Sponsored by OAH and the University of Albany (2003 broadcast) “Naming the Unknown: The Privatization of Memory After the Vietnam War;” Annual Conference of the Society of Military History; Madison, WI (2002) “‘The Problem Defies Satisfactory Solution’: Seeking the Meaning of Korean War POW Defections;” History: The Military and Society VI conference; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (1999) 1 Ph.D. in Public History Request for Authorization to Establish a New Degree Program “‘The Problem Defies Satisfactory Solution’: Korean War POWs as Symbols of Cold War America;” Popular Culture Association annual conference; San Diego, CA (1999) 6. TEACHING AND MENTORING__________________________________ COURSES TAUGHT “Modern American History,” North Carolina State University (2003-present) General education undergraduate lecture course “The Vietnam War,” North Carolina State University (2004-present) Upper level undergraduate and graduate research seminar “Recent America,” North Carolina State University (2003-present) Upper level undergraduate and graduate seminar “Ronald Reagan and the Rewriting of American History,” Northwestern University (2002) Upper level undergraduate seminar “Media on the American Landscape,” Northwestern University (2001-02) Interdisciplinary seminar and lecture series for undergraduates and graduate students “The Sixties as History,” Northwestern University (2000) Upper level undergraduate research seminar TEACHING ASSISTANT “The History of Modern Japan,” Northwestern University (2001) “American Gay and Lesbian History,” Northwestern University (2000) “The Sixties,” Northwestern University (1999) “The United States to 1865,” Northwestern University (1998) MENTORING History Club Faculty Adviser, North Carolina State University (2004-present) COURSE UNDER DEVELOPMENT “American History and Public Memory,” North Carolina State University 7. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS_________________________________ American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 8. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE_______________________________________ Discussant for paper “Overcoming the Division: The Korean War Monument and the Politics of Peace” by Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Triangle East Asia Colloquium, Durham, NC (2006) Organized panel “The Cultural Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy From Eisenhower to Iraq” for The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, College Park, MD (2005) Discussant for panel “Food and Film: Popular Culture in Twentieth Century America” for the First Annual North Carolina History Graduate Student Conference, Raleigh, NC (2005) 9. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE__________________________ 2 Ph.D. in Public History Request for Authorization to Establish a New Degree Program Assistant editor for Northwestern University Press (2000) Archival internship at the Chicago Historical Society (1995) Archival internship at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (1994) 3 Ph.D. in Public History Request for Authorization to Establish a New Degree Program David Richard Ambaras Department of History Home: North Carolina State University 605 Surry Road Campus Box 8108 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Raleigh, NC 27695-8108 Phone/fax: (919) 967-3169 Phone: (919) 513-2228 Fax: (919) 515-3886 Email: [email protected] Employment 2005-present Associate Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University 2006 Visiting Professor, Department of History, Duke University 1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University 1998-1999 Instructor, Department of History, North Carolina State University 1995-1996 Assistant in Instruction, Department of History, Princeton University Education 1993-1998 Princeton University Department of History M. A., 1995, Ph. D., 1999 1996-1997 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo 1988-1993 The University of Tokyo, Program in Area Studies M. A., 1991 1985-1986 Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris License, 1986 1979-1984 Columbia University Department of Religion B. A., 1984 Research Interests Modern Japanese urban social and cultural history Japanese imperialism and colonialism Social problems and social disciplinary projects World historical and comparative approaches to the above Book 2006 Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press) Current project Empire of Drifters: Urban Space, Marginality, and Modern Power in Japan and its Asia Articles 2004 “Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937-45,” The Journal of Asian Studies 63(1): 31-60 1998 “Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Middle Class in Japan, 1895- 1912,” The Journal of Japanese Studies 24(1): 1-33 Dissertation “Treasures of the Nation: Juvenile Delinquency, Socialization, and Mobilization in Modern Japan, 1895-1945” (Princeton University Department of History) Book Reviews 2006 Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930, reviewed for Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 66, no. 1 Brian Platt, Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750- 1890, reviewed