Tristan R. GRUNOW

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Field

Modern Japanese History

Position

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities

Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2014

MA University of Oregon, 2008

BA University of Oregon, 2007

BA Oregon State University, 2005

BA Oregon State University, 2005

Research Interests

Modern Japanese history, colonialism, architecture, urban planning, film, pop culture.

Courses Taught

Liberal Arts Seminar

Introduction to Japanese History

Modern Japanese History

Japanese Culture and Asia

New Perspectives on Modern Japanese History

Graduate Seminar: Modern Japanese cultural history

Professional Experience

Nagoya University, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities (2022-present)

Pacific University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, 2020-2022

Yale University, Associate Research Scholar, Council on East Asian Studies, 2019-2020

University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor without Review, Department of History, 2016-2019

Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, 2015-2016

Bowdoin College, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, 2014-2015

Selected Publications

Monographs & Edited Volumes

Grunow, Tristan R., and Naoko Kato, eds. Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 2018 (e-textbook). https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/meijiat150/

Book Chapters & Journal Articles

Grunow, Tristan R. "Reconstructing State-Formation and Empire-Building in Meiji Japan," Chapter 12 in Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation (New York, NY: Routledge, 2021).

Grunow, Tristan R. "Podcasting During The Pandemic and Beyond," in Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic, edited by David Kenley (Columbia University Press, 2020). https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-13-Grunow.pdf.

Grunow, Tristan R. "Cultivating Settler Colonial Space in Korea: Public Works and the Urban Environment under Japanese Rule," International Journal of Korean History 25, no. 1 (February, 2020): 85-121. DOI: 10.22372/ijkh.2020.25.1.85.

Grunow, Tristan R. "Pebbles of Progress: Streets and Urban Modernity in Early Meiji Tokyo," Japan Forum (published online). DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2019.1676287.

Grunow, Tristan R., et al. "Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond." Critical Asian Studies 51, no. 4 (2019): 597-636.

Grunow, Tristan R. "Paving Power: Western Urban Planning and Imperial Space from the Streets of Meiji Tokyo to Colonial Seoul." Journal of Urban History 42, no. 3 (May 2016): 506-556.

Grunow, Tristan R. "Trains, Modernity, and State-Formation in Meiji Japan," in Trains, Culture, and Mobility: Riding the Rails, edited by Benjamin Fraser, and Steven D. Spalding, 235-261. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 2011.

Grunow, Tristan. "A Re-examination of the 'Shock of Hiroshima': The Japanese Bomb Projects and the Surrender Decision." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 12 (Fall-Winter, 2003): 155-189. (Published as a back-issue in 2008).

Digital and Public History

Grunow, Tristan R. "Building and Street Use Codes in the Japanese Empire." Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire. https://www.japaneseempire.info/post/building-and-street-use-codes-in-the-japanese-empire.

Grunow, Tristan R. "'Making it Count': The Case for Digital Scholarship in Asian Studies," #AsiaNow, June 9, 2020. https://www.asianstudies.org/making-it-count-the-case-for-digital-scholarship-in-asian-studies/.

Grunow, Tristan R. "Ginza Bricktown and the Myth of Meiji Modernization." UBC Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource. http://meiji150projects.sites.olt.ubc.ca/grunow/

Others

The Meiji at 150 Podcast, 2017-2019

The Hokkaidō 150 Podcast, 2019

Japan on the Record, 2019-present