Walter E. Schmidt, S.J., Professor of History
My teaching and research interests focus on modern Japan and its global connections. I currently teach courses on medieval as well as modern Japan, women and gender in China, Japan, and Korea, and imperialism in East Asia. I encourage students to think about transnational issues such as religion, race, class, modernity, sexuality, the environment, citizenship and nationality, human rights, ideology, construction of masculinities and femininities, and technology. I am committed to drawing conceptual linkages between Japan and the world (especially Northeast Asia) and have therefore been a co-author or co-editor of several books that I hope will introduce students at Santa Clara and elsewhere to this view of transnationally integrated history: Gender in Modern East Asia ( with Janet Theiss and Hyaeweol Choi, Westview Press, 2016); Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories (with Jennifer Nelson, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017); Civilizations Past and Present (Pearson, 2008); Modern East Asia: An Integrated History (with Jonathan Lipman and Michael Robinson, Pearson, 2012); Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (with Ochiai Emiko, Brill, 2008); and Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard, 2005). I am currently co-authoring (with Kathleen Molony) Ichikawa Fusae: A Political Biography. To contribute to making resources more accessible to researchers and students, I am the editor for the Japan cluster of the online data archive, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 (editors, Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, 2017).
My primary research interests at this time are centered on women's rights, the construction and representation of gender, and transnational feminisms. Some of my recent articles in this area are:
- "Gender and the Politics of Morality in Japan: A Comparison of the Suffrage Movement in the Inter-War Era with Feminist Electoral Politics in the1970s" (in Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective, ed. Anne R. Epstein and Rachel Fuchs).
- "From 'Mothers of Humanity' to 'Assisting the Emperor:' Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae" (Pacific Historical Review, 2011)
- "Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Feminisms in Japan, 1900-2008" (in Women's Movements in Asia, ed. Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, 2009)
- "Gender, Citizenship, and Dress in Modernizing Japan" (The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, ed. Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, 2007)
- "Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women's Rights" (in Japanese Women: Lineage and Legacies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005)
- "Ichikawa Fusae and Japan's Prewar Women's Suffrage Movement" (in Japanese Women, ed. Hiroko Tomida, Global Oriental, 2005)
- "Citizenship and Suffrage in Interwar Japan" (in Women's Suffrage in Asia, ed. Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004)
- "Women's Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925" (Pacific Historical Review, 2000, winner of the Ridge Article Prize, Western Association of Women Historians).
Before turning to focus on women's and gender history, I did research in the area of technology and imperialism, and published several articles and one book,Technology and Investment in the Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry (Harvard, 1990).
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About Barbara Molony
My teaching and research interests focus on modern Japan and its global connections. I currently teach courses on medieval as well as modern Japan, women and gender in China, Japan, and Korea, and imperialism in East Asia. I encourage students to think about transnational issues such as religion, race, class, modernity, sexuality, the environment, citizenship and nationality, human rights, ideology, construction of masculinities and femininities, and technology. I am committed to drawing conceptual linkages between Japan and the world (especially Northeast Asia) and have therefore been a co-author or co-editor of several books that I hope will introduce students at Santa Clara and elsewhere to this view of transnationally integrated history: Gender in Modern East Asia ( with Janet Theiss and Hyaeweol Choi, Westview Press, 2016); Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories (with Jennifer Nelson, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017); Civilizations Past and Present (Pearson, 2008); Modern East Asia: An Integrated History (with Jonathan Lipman and Michael Robinson, Pearson, 2012); Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (with Ochiai Emiko, Brill, 2008); and Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard, 2005). I am currently co-authoring (with Kathleen Molony) Ichikawa Fusae: A Political Biography. To contribute to making resources more accessible to researchers and students, I am the editor for the Japan cluster of the online data archive, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 (editors, Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, 2017).
My primary research interests at this time are centered on women's rights, the construction and representation of gender, and transnational feminisms. Some of my recent articles in this area are:
- "Gender and the Politics of Morality in Japan: A Comparison of the Suffrage Movement in the Inter-War Era with Feminist Electoral Politics in the1970s" (in Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective, ed. Anne R. Epstein and Rachel Fuchs).
- "From 'Mothers of Humanity' to 'Assisting the Emperor:' Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae" (Pacific Historical Review, 2011)
- "Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Feminisms in Japan, 1900-2008" (in Women's Movements in Asia, ed. Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, 2009)
- "Gender, Citizenship, and Dress in Modernizing Japan" (The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, ed. Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, 2007)
- "Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women's Rights" (in Japanese Women: Lineage and Legacies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005)
- "Ichikawa Fusae and Japan's Prewar Women's Suffrage Movement" (in Japanese Women, ed. Hiroko Tomida, Global Oriental, 2005)
- "Citizenship and Suffrage in Interwar Japan" (in Women's Suffrage in Asia, ed. Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004)
- "Women's Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925" (Pacific Historical Review, 2000, winner of the Ridge Article Prize, Western Association of Women Historians).
Before turning to focus on women's and gender history, I did research in the area of technology and imperialism, and published several articles and one book,Technology and Investment in the Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry (Harvard, 1990).
| 1981 - Present | Assistant Professor to Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of History | |
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| 2005 - 2011 | Chair, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of History | |
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| 1982 | Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University | |
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| 1973 | A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard University | |
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| 1971 | A.B. in History, Harvard University ‐ Radcliffe College | |
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