Department of History Brown University 79 Brown St. Providence, RI 02912 T 401.863.1037 Naoko Shibusawa F 401.863.1040 APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of History, Brown University 2008 - Assistant Professor of History, Brown University 2004 - 2008 Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa 2000 - 2004 EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, Northwestern University, December 1998 M.A. in History, Northwestern University, June 1993 B.A. in History, University of California at Berkeley, May 1987 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS U.S. empire & settler colonialism, U.S. cultural history, Asian American history, history of gender and sexuality AWARDS AND GRANTS Brown University William G. McLoughlin Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2017 Brown University Karen T. Romer Award for Undergraduate Mentoring, 2012 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2007-2008 Northeast Popular Culture Association Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, 2006 American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2004-2005 University of Hawai’i Research Relations Fund Award, 2002-2003 University of Hawai’i Arts & Sciences Faculty Award, 2002-2003 Japan-American Society, Chicago Chapter Fellowship, 1996-1997 Center for International and Comparative Studies Graduate Grant, 1995-1996 Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship, 1989-1990 SCHOLARSHIP Books In progress: Ideologies of U.S. Empire (under contract with University of North Carolina Press) In progress: Queer Betrayals: The Treason Trial of John David Provoo Co-edited with Michele Mitchell and Stephan Miescher, Gender, Imperialism, and Global Exchanges, reprint of Gender & History special issue (Wiley, 2015). America’s Geisha Ally: Re-Imagining the Japanese Enemy (Harvard University Press, 2006, pbk 2010, Chinese trans, 2012, 2nd Chinese trans, 2017). Peer-reviewed articles “Wrestling with Non-Black Privilege: Asian American Studies and #BlackLivesMatter,” under review at the Journal of Asian American Studies. “The Kinsey Report,” chapter in Brooke Blower and Mark Bradley, eds., Making the Familiar Strange: Iconic American Texts after the Transnational Turn (Cornell University Press, 2015). Co-authored with Michele Mitchell, “Guest editors’ Introduction,” Gender & History 26:3 (November 2014). Co-edited with Michele Mitchell and Stephan Miescher, “Gender, Imperialism, and Global Exchanges,” special issue of Gender & History 26:3 (November 2014). “The Lavender Scare and Empire: Rethinking Cold War Antigay Policies,” Diplomatic History 36:4 (September 2012): 732-52. “Femininity, Race and Treachery: How ‘Tokyo Rose’ Became a Traitor to the United States after the Second World War,” Gender & History 22:1 (April 2010): 169–188. Introductory essay to reprint of Taro Yashima’s The New Sun (1943, University of Hawai’i Press, 2008). Other scholarly articles Co-author, “Colloquy: Queering America and the World,” Diplomatic History 40:1 (January 2016): 19-80. “Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War,” conceptual framework essay in Richard Immerman and Petra Goedde, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2013), 32-49; excerpted in in R.J. Gonzalez, H. Gusterson and G. Houtman, eds., Militarization: A Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), under contract. “Gender and American Foreign Policy,” keynote essay-entry in Paul Boyer, Christopher McKnit Nichols, David Milne, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American and Military and Diplomatic History (Oxford University Press, 2013). “Elite Ideologies and Popular Support for U.S. Foreign Policies,” American Studies (Seoul National University) 33:2 (Winter 2010) Co-edited with Erika Lee, Transnational Asian American Studies, a special issue of Journal of Asian American Studies 8:3 (October 2005). Co-authored with Erika Lee, “Guest Editors’ Introduction: What is Transnational Asian American Studies? Recent Trends and Challenges,” Journal of Asian American Studies 8:3 (October 2005): vii-xvii. “’An Artist Belongs to the People’: The Odyssey of Taro Yashima,” Journal of Asian American Studies 8:3 (October 2005): 257-275. Encyclopedia entry “Tomoya Kawakita” in Densho Encyclopedia, a free online resource about the history of the Japanese American WWII exclusion and incarceration experience, July 2015. Book reviews Featured Review of American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders by Gary Y. Okihiro, Journal of American History 103:4 (March 2017): 1012-13. “Undoing American Exceptionalism,” review of Empire’s Twin: U.S. Anti-Imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism, co-edited by Ian Tyrrell and Jay Sexton, Diplomatic History 40:1 (January 2016): 183-89. Review of Transpacific Anti-Racism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa by Yuichiro Onishi, Journal of American History 101:3 (2014): 957-958. Roundtable Review of Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands by Kornel Chang, H-Diplo/ISSF 15:24 (2014), 11-13. Roundtable Review of Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations in H-Diplo/ISSF 15:11 (2013). Review of Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways by Christine R. Yano in Hawaiian Journal of History 46 (2012): 159-162. Roundtable Review of Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865-1890 in H-Diplo/ISSF 3:2 (2011). Review of An American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II by Eric Muller in American Historical Review (December 2009): 1488. Roundtable review of The Myth of American Diplomacy by Walter Hixson in Passport, newsletter of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, (December 2008). Review of The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations, edited by Marc Gallicchio in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 9:1 (Spring 2008). Review of No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai’i During World War II by Franklin Odo in American Studies Journal 47:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2006): 235-236. Review of America’s Asia: Literature and Racial Formation by Colleen Lye in Pacific Historical Review 75:3 (August 2006): 504-506. Review of A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory by Emily S. Rosenberg in The Journal of American History 91(March 2005): 1519. Review of The Cold War and the Color Line by Thomas Borstelmann in The Journal of World History 15 (December 2004): 532-5. Review of Rabbit in the Moon by Emiko Omori and Conscience and the Constitution by Frank Abe in The Journal of American History 88 (December 2001): 1209-10. Review of Trans-Pacific Racisms and the US Occupation of Japan by Yukiko Koshiro in The Journal of American History 87 (September 2000): 726-27. Invited talks “America's Japan in the Age of Industrial Modernity,” Penn Forum on Japan, “Philadelphia and Meiji Japan,” University of Pennsylvania, 21 September 2018. “Execution on an Island Fortress,” International History Workshop, Yale University, 24 March 2015. “America Geisha Ally Redux” for “Japan Embodied,” Mellon Seminar, East Asian Languages & Culture, Washington University, 8 February 2013. “Surviving Collaboration in the Aftermath of War,” Portland State University, 28 March 2013. “Hollywood’s Japan,” SUNY-Binghamton, 4 March 2011. “Comments on the Cold War in Asia,” Cambridge Cold War Workshop, Cambridge University, 10 December 2010. “The Geisha in G.I. Khakis: Treachery, Homophobia, and Orientalism in a Cold War Trial,” Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, Yale University, 4 March 2010. “Elite Ideologies and Popular Support for U.S. Foreign Policies,” Seoul National University, 12 November 2009. “Epistemology and Purpose: Area Studies and Asian American Studies Today,” Transpacific Histories and Diaspora Workshop, Northwestern University, 20 February 2009. “Homophobia, Orientalism and Treason: A Cold War Case,” American Studies Workshop, Harvard University, 8 December 2008. “‘Tokyo Rose’: a GI Sweetheart? Media, Culture, and the Power of Narrative,” Doshisha University, Kyoto, 18 October 2008. "Asians, Asian Americans, and the 'American Century,'" Hampshire College School of Social Science, 20 April 2007. “America’s Geisha Ally: Re-Imagining the Japanese Enemy,” The International History Workshop, The Center for Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, 3 June 2006. “A Transpacific No-No Boy: The Treason Trial of Tomoya Kawakita,” Northwestern University Department of History, 22 November 2005. “Transnational Lives, Transnational Scholarship,” the Freeman Forum, Wesleyan University, 7 November 2005. “A Boy of Twelve: Maturity and Postwar U.S. Images of Japan,” the Foreign Policy Seminar, University of Connecticut at Storrs, 4 November 2005. Select conference presentations “U.S. Empire, Capitalist Modernity, and Liberalism,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 22 June 2018. “Wrestling with Non-Black Privilege: Asian American Studies and #BlackLivesMatter ,” Association of Asian American Studies, San Francisco, 29 April 2018. “Treason, Liminality and Japanese/Americans,” Association of Asian American Studies, Evanston, 25 April 2015. “Diaspora, Empire and Race,” roundtable on “Gendering the Transpacific World,” Association of American Studies, Evanston, 23 April 2015. “Kinsey in the Asia-Pacific: Sex & Cold War Modernity,” American Studies Association, Los Angeles, 9 November 2014. “Covert Sex Research: Kinsey’s Secret Collaborator in Japan,” American Studies Association of Canada,