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Office: Axinn 342.
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Neil Waters
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Professor of History; Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies
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Axinn Center at Starr Library 342
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Phone: 802.443.5321
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Email: nwaters@middlebury.edu
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Years at Midd: Since 1990
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
B.A., Pacific Lutheran University;
M.A., Washington State University;
Ph.D., University of Hawaii.
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Teaching Areas
Japanese history, U.S. - Japan relations, East Asian civilization.
Research interests
Japanese social, intellectual and regional history in the Meiji and Taisho eras. Current project: The Russo-Japanese War and the Locus of Identity in Rural Japan.
Courses Taught
Early East Asia; The History of Pre-Modern Japan; The History of Modern Japan; The United States and Japan: the Peculiar Relationship; Readings in Asian History: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima; The Reinvention of a Nation: Postwar Japan; Behind Closed Doors: Japan in the Tokugawa Era.
Selected Publications
Japan's Local Pragmatists, Council on East Asian Studies (Harvard University Press, 1983).
"The Second Transition: Early to Mid-Meiji in Kanagawa Prefecture," Journal of Asian Studies, 49.2 (May 1990)
"The Village Consolidation of 1889: the Institutionalization of Contradiction", Asian Cultural Studies, 18 (February 1992).