Michael Wert--CV  
   
 
 
 

EDUCATION

  • PhD.  Department of History, University of California, Irvine, 2007.  Primary Field: East Asian History (Japan focus), Secondary field: World History. 
  • Research Student, University of Tokyo, 10/2004-01/2006.
  • B.A.  East Asian Studies, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., 1997.  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Professor, Marquette University, History Department.  2007-present. 
  • Visiting Instructor, Oberlin College, East Asian Studies and History Departments.  02/2006-6/2007.
  • Instructor, Sophia University, summers of 2008 and 2005. 
  • Instructor, Temple University Japan, fall 2005.
  • Instructor, University of California Irvine, summer 2004. 
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PUBLICATIONS

                Books

  • Remembering Restoration Losers: Oguri Tadamasa and Memory of the Meiji Restoration.. In progress.

                     

             Articles/Book Chapters

  • "Reaching Beyond the Manga: A Samurai to the Ends of the World and the Formation of National Identity," in Lorna Fitzsimmons and John A. Lent, ed. Asian Popular Culture, Submitted..
  • “Remembering Restoration Heroes in Modern Japan.”  Education about Asia 14:1. (Spring 2009). 

             Translations

  • Anne Walthall, “Waka to komyunikeeshon (Waka and Communication)” in Rekishi wo yomu (Reading History), Tokyo University Press, Tokyo, 2004.
  • Immortal Rain, volumes 1-6, TOKYOPOP, 2004 - 2005.  Six-volume Japanese manga (graphic novel).

   Encyclopedia Essays

  • “Admiral Perry and the Opening of Japan”; “The Japanese Military Before the Meiji Restoration”; “The Double Structure of Japanese Life” in Andrea, Alfred, ed.  World History Encyclopedia.  California: ABC-CLIO, Inc., forthcoming 2009.
  • “Chang’an (China)”; “Soga Clan, Japan”; “Suiko, Empress of Japan”; “Three Kingdoms Period (Korea)—Korguyo, Silla, Paekche” in Mark Whitters and Jiu-Hwa Lo, ed. The Encyclopedia of World History: Volume 1 Ancient World: Prehistoric Eras to 600 C.E.  New York: Facts on File, Inc and Golson Books, 2008. 
  • “Japanese Martial Arts” in Huping Ling and Allan W. Austin, ed. Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.

        

             Reviews
  • Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenneth R. Robinson, and Haruko Wakabayashi, eds.  Tools of culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000-1500s.  Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2009.  Forthcoming in World History Connected, 2010. 
  • Auslin, Michael.  Negotiating with Imperialism:  The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, in H-US-Japan, H-Net listserv, March 2009.
  • Tucker, Mary Evelyn, trans.; Kaibara Ekken.  The Philosophy of QI:  The Record of Great Doubts.  New York: Columbia, 2007, in Philosophy in Review, February 2009. 
  • Miyazawa, Seiichi.  Meiji ishin no saisôzô: kindai nihon no “kigen shinwa” (The Reinvention of The Meiji Restoration: The myth of historical origin of modern Japan).  Tokyo: Aoki Shoten, 2005, in Social Science Japan Journal, October 2006.
 
 

PRESENTATIONS

  • “A History of Violence: Teaching about violence through the lens of East Asian history-a corollary to teaching about peace.”  Exploring the Teacher Scholar Model at Marquette, Marquette U., January 14th, 2010.  

  • “The Last Bannerman: Taking a Local Hero to the National Stage.”  Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World-International Conference, University of Antwerp, Belgium, October 15th, 2009. 

  • Invited Lecture:  “Buddhist Movements in Kamakura Japan.”  UW Milwaukee, February 5th, 2009. 
  • Invited Lecture:  “Development of Buddhism in Ancient Japan.”  UW Milwaukee, February 10th 2009.
  • Panel coordinator, chair and presenter: “There’s Gold in those Hills:  The Tokugawa Buried Treasure Legend in Local Japan.”  Panel on “Restoration  Losers: Vilified People, Places and Politics in Modern Japan”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2008.
  • Invited Talk: “Making Heroes out of Losers: Creating Meiji Restoration History in Local Japan.”  Center for East Asian Studies, UW Madison, February 2008.
  • Speaker: “Rural Swordsmen: Martial Status in Tokugawa Japan.”  Faculty seminar, Center for East Asian Studies, UW Madison, February 2008. 
  • “Teaching Violence:  East Asia and Japan.”  Teaching East Asia and the World Roundtable, Japan and the World Conference, Wittenberg University, November, 2006. 
  • “Memorializing Martyrdom: Local Identity and a Tokugawa Loyalist in Modern Japan.”  Panel on “Taming Time: Preserving Japanese History and Making Modernity in Memorials, Museums, and Parks”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April, 2006.
  •  “Getting A Head: A Tokugawa Martyr and Local Identity in Modern Japan.” Modern Japan History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 5th, 2005.
  •  “Peasant Swordsmen: Crossing Social and Cultural Boundaries in Nineteenth Century Japan.”  Global Localities: Theorizing Across Boundaries, Sixth Annual Graduate Student History and Theory Conference, University of California, Irvine, November 2002.
  •  “Peasant Swordsmen: Breaking Cultural Barriers in Nineteenth Century Japan.”  Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, Ohio State University, May 2002.

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Age of the Samurai
  • Modern Japan
  • Violence in East Asian History (also taught as "in Japanese history")
  • Historiography of the Early Modern World (graduate course)
  • East Asia (premodern survey)