Curriculum vitae
 
 
 
CONSTANTINE NOMIKOS VAPORIS  Professor of History (Japan and East Asia) University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 Tel. (office) 410/455-2092 Email: vaporis@umbc.edu Web: http://research.umbc.edu/~vaporis http://umbc.edu/history Education Ph.D., Princeton University, East Asian Studies, History concentration, 1987 M.A., Princeton University, East Asian Studies. History concentration, 1984. B.A., The Ohio State University, Japanese language and literature, 1980. Academic Interests Research: Edo (Tokugawa, or early modern) period, social and cultural history, gender Teaching and Other: My research focus lies squarely with the Edo period, but I am interested in, and teach, the entire range of Japanese history, including more specialized courses on historical memory, historiography, and the Allied Occupation of Japan. Two of my regular, service courses are East Asian in focus: a “rice paddies” course (East Asian Civilization) and Women and Gender in East Asia. I also teach my Japanese history courses from an East Asian or comparative context (please refer to the Teaching Experience section of this vitae). Indicative of this wider interest are a period as a visiting scholar at Anhui University in Hefei, People’s Republic of China, my selection for a Fellowship in Korean Studies from the Korea Society and a study trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. At the same time, I remain fascinated by contemporary Japan, where I have lived for over seven years, and to which I continue to travel regularly. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Professor of Japanese History, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008—present Graduate Program Director, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2003—2009, Acting Graduate Program Director, 2000—01 Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1993—2008 Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1989—1993 Affiliate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1993—present Visiting Research Professor, International Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan, 2003—2004 Visiting Associate Professor of History, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, 1996—1997, 2002—2003 Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, Post-doctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant 1988—1989 Princeton University, Lecturer, Department of History, 1987—1988 Princeton University, Assistant in Instruction, 1982—1983, 1986—1987 HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Honors College Faculty Teaching Fellow, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2009-11. Dresher Center Faculty Summer Fellowship for Grant Writing, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. Japan Studies Grant, Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2008. Visiting Professor, Research Department, International Research Center for Japan Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan, 2003—2004. Summer Faculty Fellowship, Directed Research Initiative Fund (DRIF), UMBC, Summer 2004. Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC) grant for Korean Studies Instructional materials, 2000—2001. Directed Research Initiative Fund (DRIF), UMBC, Summer 2001, Fellowship in Korean Studies, Korea Society, October, 2001 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for College Teachers, 1997— 1998 Research Travel Award, Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County. 1996. Overseas Research Travel Grant, Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association of Asian Studies, 1995—1996. Summer Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1995. Travel-to-Collections Grant, Gest Library, Princeton University, March-April, 1995. Visiting Scholar, Anhui University, Hefei, People's Republic of China, May-July 1994 Research Travel Award, President's Faculty Development Fund, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1994. Research Grant, Directed Research Initiative Fund, (DRIF), University of Maryland Baltimore County Graduate School, Summer 1994. Fulbright Scholar's Award (IIE), 1993—1994. Research Grant, Directed Research Initiative Fund (DRIF), University of Maryland Baltimore Count Graduate School, 1992—1993. Travel-to-Collections Award, East Asia National Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. National Endowment for the Humanities Travel-to-Collections Grant, 1991—1992. American Philosophical Society Grant, 1991—1992. Princeton University, Visiting Research Fellow, Summer 1991 Research Grant, Directed Research Initiative Fund (DRIF), University of Maryland Baltimore County Graduate School, 1991. Offered (but declined) six-month Visiting Fellowship at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 1991. Fulbright Scholars Grant, used while Foreign Guest Researcher, Tokyo University Historiographical Institute, 1990-1991. Research Grant, Directed Research Initiative Fund (DRIF), University of Maryland Baltimore County Graduate School, 1989-1990. Overseas Research Travel Grant, Northeast Area Council of the Association for Asian Studies, Summer 1990. Research Travel Grant, President's Faculty Development Fund, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1990. Japan Foundation Professional Grant, 1989-1990. Faculty Research Grant, Princeton University, 1987-1988. Japan Government Grant, 1986-1987 National Resource Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (formerly NDFL), 1986- 1987, 1983-1984, 1981. Fulbright (IIE) Dissertation Fellowship, 1984-1986. Japan Foundation Language Fellowship , 1981-1982. PUBLICATIONS I. Books Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan, Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1995. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 163. II. Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Essays “Linking the Realm: The Gokaidô Highway Network in Early Modern (1603-1868) Japan.” Book chapter in Susan Alcock, John Bodel and Richard Talbert, ed, Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-modern World. Volume to be published by Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford) Publishing Company. 2008 “Samurai and the World of Goods: the diaries of the Toyama family of Hachinohe.” Early Modern Japan. An Interdisciplinary Journal XVI (2008): 56-67. “Hanshi no sankin kôtai o meguru shoshiten” [Perspectives on the Participation of Domain Samurai in Alternate Attendance]. In Shirahata Yozaburô, ed., Tabi to Nihon hakken [Travel and the Discovery of Japan], pp. 1-12. Kyoto: Nichibunken, 2008. “Samurai in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan.” Bilingual edition of lecture presented in the Hellenic Japanese Lecture Series. Athens: Hellenic Japanese Center, 2008 2005 “Daimyo Processions: Authority and Theater,” Japan Review 17 (2005), pp. 3-52. “Edo chûki no bushi to shônin--Tani Tannai no ‘Nichiyô beien roku.”(Adapted Japanese version of article in HJAS listed below), in Shuroku bunka to mibunsei (Collecting Culture and the Status System), edited by Wakita Haruko (Shibunkaku shuppan, 2005), pp. 1-22. 2000 “Samurai and Merchant in Mid-Tokugawa Japan. Tani Tannai’s Record of Daily Necessities (1748-54).” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60, 1 (June 2000), pp. 205-27. 1998 "Digging for Edo. Archaeology and Japan's Early Modern Past," Monumenta Nipponica 53, 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 73-104. 1997 “To the Shogun’s Capital and Back. Alternate Attendance and Tokugawa Japan,” Asie no. 5: Aller et Venir. Mythe et Histoire (Centre de Recherche sur l’Extreme-Orient de Paris-Sorbonne December 1997), pp. 99-110. “To Edo and Back: Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture in the Early Modern Period,” Journal of Japanese Studies 23, 1 (Winter 1997), pp. 25-67. 1996 "Tour of Duty: The Kurume han Edo kinban Scroll"--a transcription, translation, and historical commentary on a mid-nineteenth century Japanese scroll (with paintings and accompanying brushwritten text). Monumenta Nipponica 51, 3 (Autumn 1996), pp. 279-307. 1995 "Japanese Textbooks and the War in China," Kang-ri zhan zheng shi yanjiu (Studies in the History of the War of Resistance Against Japan), Beijing, People's Republic of China 3 (1995), pp. 169-177. "The Early Modern Origins of Japanese Tourism." Senri Ethnological Studies 38 (1995), pp. 25-38. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. 1994 "Edo e no tabi. Tosa hanshi Mori-ke nikki nado ni miru sankin kôtai no sugata" ("The Road to Edo. The Alternate Attendance System as Seen Through the Diaries of the Mori Family of Tosa Domain), Kôtsûshi kenkyû (Studies in the History of Communications), vol. 34 (December 1994), pp. 52-67. "Edo to Tosa. Toshû no Edo yashiki" (Edo and Tosa: Tosa Domain's Compounds in the City of Edo), Tosa shidan (Tosa Historical Journal), vol. 68 (1994), pp. 1-13. 1989 "Caveat Viator: Advice to Travelers in the Edo Period," Monumenta Nipponica 44, 4 (Winter 1989), pp. 461-485. (Translation with historical introduction.) 1986 "Post Station and Assisting Villages: Corvee Labor and Peasant Contention," Monumenta Nipponica 41, 4 (Winter 1986), pp. 377-414. III. Reviews and Non-refereed Publications 2009 Review of Mark Ravina, The Last Samurai. The Life and Battles of Saigô Takamori, Monumenta Nipponica (2009), forthcoming 2007 Review of Beatrice Bodart-Bailey, The Dog Shogun. The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese Studies Journal (Australia) 27, 2 (2007), 145-46. 2006 Review of Sara Thal, Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: the politics of a pilgrimage site in Japan, American Historical Review 111, 2 (2006), pp. 449-50. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/111.2/br_24.html 2004 “Sankin kôtai to Nihon no bunka” [Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture.] 169th Nichibunken Forum Lecture. May 11, 2004. Published by Nichibunken (Center for Research in Japanese Studies), October, 2004. “Tono no onari, shomin no sho-sankin kôtai no daimyô gyôretsu ni misemono to shite no sokumen” [The Lord’s Procession, the People’s Show: Alternate Attendance as Performance], Nihon keizai shimbun [Japanese Economic Times newspaper], June 15, 2004, p. 40. Review of Marcia Yonemoto, Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868), Journal of Japanese Studies 30, 2 (Spring 2004), pp. 514-17. Review of Nathalie Kouame, Pelerinage et Societe Dans le Japon Des Tokugawa. Le Pelerinage de Shikoku Entre 1598 et 1868, Journal of Japanese Studies 30, 1 (Winter 2004), pp.155-159. 2003 Review of H. Hesselink, Prisoners from Nambu: reality and make believe in 17th-century Japanese diplomacy, Journal of Early Modern History 7,1-2 (2003), pp. 178-180. 2001 Review of Mark Ravina, Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan, American Historical Review 105, 3 (April 2001), pp. 551-52. 2000 Review of Nam-lin Hur, Prayers and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan. Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society, Monumenta Nipponica 55, 4 (Winter 2000), pp. 595-598. “Preface,” in Nomikos Michael Vaporis, Witnesses for Christ. Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs of the Ottoman Period, 1437-1860 (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000), pp. ix-xii. 1998 Review of Herman Ooms, Tokugawa Village Practice: Class, Status, Power, Law, American Historical Review 102, 3 (February 1998), pp. 259-60. Review of Nishiyama Matsunosuke, Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868, Monumenta Nipponica 53, 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 111-14. Review of Susan Hanley, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58,1 (June 1998), pp. 318-324. Review of Ian Littlewood, The Idea of Japan. Western Images, Western Myths, Pacific Affairs 71, 1 (Spring1998), pp. 109-111. 1997 Review of Beatrice Bodart-Bailey and Derek Massarella, The Furthest Goal. Englebert Kaempfer’s Encounter With Tokugawa Japan (Japan Library, 1995), Pacific Affairs 69, 4 (Winter 1996-97), pp. 581-82. Review of Karen Wigens, The Making of a Japanese Periphery,1750-1920, Journal of Developing Societies 13, 2 (1997), pp. 311-12. 1995 “The Alternate Attendance and Edo-period Culture," Kyoto Conference on Japanese Studies--1994, vol. 4, pp. 174-176. Abstract of lecture presented at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, October 18-21, 1994, Kyoto, Japan. Review of Philip C. Brown, Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan. The Case of Kaga, American Historical Review 100, 1 (February 1995), pp. 210-211. 1994 Review of Conrad Totman, Early Modern Japan, Monumenta Nipponica 49, 1 (1994), pp. 105-108. 1993 Review of Gary Leupp, Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, Monumenta Nipponica 48, 1 (1993), pp. 121-124. 1991 Review of Chie Nakane, ed., Tokugawa Japan: Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan, Monumenta Nipponica 46, 1 (1991), pp. 120-123. 1990 Abstract of lecture "Tosa han no sankin kôtai ni tsuite," ("Tosa Domain and the Tokugawa Institution of Alternate Attendance"), Kôtsûshi kenkyû (The Journal of the History of Communications) 23, 1 (February 1990), p. 96. Contributed bibliography on Japanese urban history to The Urban History Newsletter 4 (October 1990), pp. 5-8. INVITED LECTURES, WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2009 Invited Chair and discussant for panel “Ritual and Ritual Practice,” The Texture of Tokugawa Thought in its Social and Political Context Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, March 21-25, 2009. “Japan as ‘Samurai Nation.’ Invited lecture, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. March 16, 2009. 2008 “Samurai in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan.” Lecture delivered to the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, October 23, 2008. Invited participant/presenter for conference “Highways and Road Systems: Comparative Perspectives,” to be held at Brown University, April 4-6, 2008. Papers are to be submitted for publication to Oxford University Press. Sponsor for NCTA (National Consortium for Teaching About Asia) Workshops for secondary teachers (http:// www.umbc.edu/che/ncta/) held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Also presented two sessions on premodern Japanese history, April 19 and May 3, 2008. (Will be held again in 2009) Invited lecture, “Samurai in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan,” presented in Athens, Greece, February 26, 2008 at the Hellenic-American Union, sponsored by the Hellenic-Japanese Center, the Embassy of Japan in Athens and the Greek-Japanese Association. http://www.greecejapan.org/vaporis.htm “Portable Lords: Politics and Pageantry on Tokugawa Japan’s Highways.” Invited lecture presented at the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Culture (SISJAC), Norwich, England, February 21, 2008. http://www.sainsbury-institute.org/ “Carriers of Culture. Samurai and Alternate Attendance in Early Modern Japan.”2008 Tsuda Lecture at the Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, February 20, 2008. http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event40774.html 2007 Presented two workshops on Japanese history, for middle and high school teachers, sponsored by NCTA (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia), held at Essex Community College, February 7 and March 14, 2007. 2005 Organizer, Chair and Discussant for a panel entitled “Samurai: History and Memory,” held at the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Vienna, Austria, August 31-September 3, 2005. “Samurai and the Institution of Alternate Attendance.” Invited paper delivered at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Conference on “The ‘Discovery’ of Japan: Travel and Mobility in the Creation of Culture,” Kyoto, Japan, March 7-12, 2005. 2004 “Rethinking Tokugawa History: Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture.” History Department Seminar, UMBC, September 8, 2004. “Portable Lords: Politics as Theater on Tokugawa Japan’s Highways.” Invited lecture presented at Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, November 10, 2004. “Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture.” Invited lecture presented in Japanese at the Nichibunken Forum series, held at the Japan Foundation, Kyoto, Japan. May 11, 2004. “Rethinking ‘Edo Culture’.” Nichibunken Evening Seminar, May 6, 2004. Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan. “Some Problems in Japanese Institutional History as Seen in Alternate 　 Attendance.” Invited　paper presented at the International Research Center for Japanese　Studies, Kyoto, Japan, April 16, 2004. 2003 Alternate Attendance as an ‘Expression of Travel and Communications’--A Reexamination of Japanese Cultural History from the Perspective of Isolation and Exchange.” Invited seminar presentation in Japanese, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 12/6/03. 2001 Interpreting Early Modern (Tokugawa) Japan.” Invited Graduate Colloquium presented at The Johns Hopkins University, as part of a series of graduate colloquia on the study of Modern Japanese History, 9/17/2001. 2001 Warrior Land (buke-chi): Spatial Consciousness, Warrior Conflict and Political Authority in Edo.” Invited paper presented at the Marius B. Jansen Memorial Conference, Princeton University, May 12-13, 2001. “Asian History and the Internet,” Week-long workshop for high school teachers on integrating the internet in the history classroom. (June 25-29, 2001) Web site available at www.research.umbc.edu/~vaporis/ “The Atomic Bomb and the End of WWII: the Japanese Experience and Perspective,” Teaching History on the Internet, World History Workshop, UMBC, Jan. 9, 2001. 2000 “Japanese Views of the Second World War: Nationalism, Atonement, Co-prosperity and ‘History in the Passive,’” lecture presented at “Teachers’ Workshop on WWII,” University of Maryland Baltimore County, January 18, 2000. Discussant for panel on “Travel and Early Modern Culture” at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, San Diego, March 2000. 1999 Contextual lecture on Japanese history and culture. Presented to new docents class, Freer-Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Nov. 16, 1999. 1997 “Japanese Material Culture and Urban Archaeology.” Invited paper presented at the workshop “Japanese Material and Visual Cultures: Sources, Methods, and Themes,”　Princeton University, December 14, 1997. “To the Shogun’s Capital and Back: Alternate Attendance and Tokugawa Japan.” Invited paper presented at the conference “Aller et Venir en Asie Orientale” at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, October 4, 1997. “Beyond History. Archaeology and Japan’s Urban Past.” Invited lecture presented at the Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, April 10, 1997. 1996 Digging for Edo. Archaeology and Japan’s Urban Past.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting (theme of seminar: “Borders and Boundaries in Chinese and Japanese Cultures and Studies”), Savannah, Georgia, November 8-10, 1996. "Digging for Edo. The Contribution of Archaeology to Japan's Early Modern Urban Past," First World Conference of the East Asian Archaeology Network, Honolulu Hawaii, April 2-4, 1996. Paper was part of the panel, “East Asia: Archaeology and History,” which I chaired. 1995 "Samurai in Distress. Tani Tannai's Record of Daily Necessities (1750-54), Retainer Finances and Edo Service.” Invited paper presented to the conference "Society and Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Japan," Princeton University, October 26-28, 1995. "Samurai in Edo--A Tour of Duty in the Nation's Capital." Invited paper given at the Asian Studies Roundtable, Towson State University, April 25, 1995. "Tour of Duty: Domainal Samurai and the 'Edo Experience.'" Paper delivered at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, April 2-5, 1995. Part of the panel, "New Directions in the Study of Urban Society in Edo," which I organized and chaired. "To Edo and Back. The Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture in the Early Modern Period." Seminar paper presented to the History department seminar, Johns Hopkins University, March 6, 1995. 1994 “Linking the Realm: The Alternate Attendance and Early Modern Society in Japan." Invited paper presented at the conference "Comparative Perspectives on Transport," National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, December 10- 18, 1994. "The Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture." Invited paper presented at the Kyoto Conference on Japanese Studies, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, October 18-21, 1994, Kyoto, Japan. "Anhui and the 'Two Chinas.'" Seminar presented to the Department of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County, September 28, 1994. "Japan's 'Asia Boom': Confronting the Past, Shaping the Future." Three-part lecture delivered at Anhui University, Hefei, People's Republic of China, June 8, 15, and 22, 1994. "Edo e no tabi. Tosa hanshi Mori-ke nikki nado ni miru sankin kôtai no sugata" (The Road to Edo. The Alternate Attendance System as Seen through the Diaries of the Mori Family of Tosa Domain). Invited paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Kôtsûshi kenkyûkai (Association for the Study of the History of Communications), Gakushuin University, Tokyo, May 7, 1994. 1993 Discussant for paper "The Shogun's New Clothes: Image, 'Reality', and Political Authority of the Tokugawa Bakufu." Washington and Southeast Region Japan Seminar, American University, April 24, 1993. 1992 "To Edo and Back. Political Control and Cultural Integration in Tokugawa Japan." Columbia University, East Asian Institute, October 1, 1992. "Travel and Nineteenth-Century Japan." Graduate seminar given at Columbia University for History course "Nineteenth-Century Japan." October 1, 1992. "Crossing Boundaries: Women and Travel in Japan Tokugawa Past." Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies, West Chester University, West Chester, PA., October 31, 1992. "New Directions in Japanese Social History." Invited paper, "Recent Trends in the Study of Japanese History" Symposium, Princeton University, May 14-15, 1992. Organized panel "Tosa and Edo" for the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., April 2-5, 1992, and presented paper, "Politics and Culture: Tosa Domain and the Alternate Attendance System." 1991 "The Early Modern Origins of Japanese Tourism." Invited paper presented at the "Comparative Perspectives in Tourism" Conference, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, March 18-25, 1991. 1990 Discussant for paper "Provisioning Edo" and invited participant at the Edo-Paris: Political Governance and Urban Society Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 4-10, 1990. 1988 "The Edo Man and the Satsuma Sweet Potato: Travel in Tokugawa Japan," Japan Forum, Reischauer Institute, 12/18/88. 1988 "'Barriers' and Commoner Mobility in Tokugawa Japan," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 3/25/1988. 1987 "The Edo Man and the Satsuma Sweet Potato: Travel in Tokugawa Japan," Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, Columbia University, 5/12/87. 1986 "Freedom of Movement in Early Modern Japan," New York Conference on Asian Studies, State University of New York, New Paltz, New York, 10/17/1986. B. Other Conferences and Workshops Attended 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant-Writing Workshop, January 25, 2008. 2007 Clickers Workshop, Office of Information Technology, UMBC, April 18, 2007. 2006 Participant in 26th Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, November 16-19, 2006, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 2002 “Considering the Place of Buddhist Traditions Across Asia,” Faculty Workshop, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, March 19-20, 2002. Selected participant. 2000 New Explorations: Histories of Natural History in East Asia. March 15-16, 2000, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Studies. Invited participant. 1997 Chinese Studies Mini-course, held in conjunction with the exhibition “The First Emperor: Treasures from Ancient China,” Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in conjunction with the exhibition on the First Chinese Emperor, March 8, 1997. 1995 “Violent Endings, New Beginnings”—conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, National Archives, October 13-14, 1995. "History, Lies, and Videotape. Teaching the Pacific War Through Film." Workshop sponsored by the Maryland Japan-in-the Schools (MARJiS), December 2, 1995. 1992 "Strategies for Reconciliation and Beyond: the United States and Vietnam," Maryland Vietnam Roundtable, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., 5/8/92. 1991 "The Occupation of Japan: The Grass Roots," MacArthur Memorial, Norfolk, Va., 11/7-11/8/1991. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: COURSES TAUGHT East Asian Civilization (HIST 103) Japan to 1800 (HIST 458) Japan Since 1800 (HIST 459); also taught the course at Johns Hopkins University Women and Gender in Asia (HIST 380/Women’s Studies 380); also taught as graduate-level colloquium Contemporary Japan (HIST 385) From Samurai to "Salariiman": Japanese History through Film and Literature (HIST 381) The American Occupation of Japan (Seminar in World History; also taught research seminar on the same topic) HIST 494/711, HIST 497 “The World Since 1945” (HIST 200) “Japan in the Shogun Age” (HIST 383) "City and Society of Edo/Tokyo" HIST 494/711 (Colloquium in World History); also taught course at The Johns Hopkins University "Reconsidering World War Two: History and Memory" (HIST 494/714: Seminar in World History/Colloquium in Intellectual History) “History and Memory” (HIST 497: Research Seminar in World History） “Introduction to the Study of the Humanities--Great Books, East and　West,” HUMANITIES 120H “Empire and Aftermath in Asia” (HIST 494/711: Colloquium in World History/Colloquium in Cultural History) “Constructing the Samurai” (Hist 494/715) “’Opening the Japanese Oyster’: American Imperialism and Japan, 1842-68 (HIST 497: Research Seminar in World History) New course planned: Food in East Asian and World History (fall 2009) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Membership in Professional Organizations Association for Asian Studies Society for the Study of the History of Communications (Kôtsûshi kenkyûkai) Tosa Historical Studies Manuscript reader for the following publishers and journals: Journal of Asian Studies Monumenta Nipponica Journal of Japanese Studies Japan Review Columbia University Press Stanford University Press Cornell University Press University of California Press Harvard University Press Honors Thesis Committee member for Midshipman Michael Rogers, United States Naval Academy, 2005 Offered a Ph.D. general examination field in Japanese history to Grant Alger, a student from Johns Hopkins University (1996-97) National Screening Committee, Institute of International Education (IIE) for Fulbright-Hays Program, 1997-2000 Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion cases at Tufts University; University of California, Santa Barbara; State University of New York at Albany, University of New South Wales SPECIAL PROGRAMS 2000 Fellowship in Korean Studies, sponsored by the Freeman Foundation and Korea Information Service 1981-82 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Tokyo, Japan. 1983 Boston, MA. Japan Specialist, Boston-Kyoto Sister City Tour, Summer 1983. Assisted in the creation and implementation of the tour orientation program; lectured on Japanese culture and history; in Japan, acted as tour coordinator/guide. 1981 Middlebury College Intensive Japanese Language Summer Program 1979 Japan-America Student Conference 1977-78 Japan Study Group, Colgate University mailto:vaporis@umbc.eduhttp://research.umbc.edu/~vaporishttp://umbc.edu/historyhttp://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/111.2/br_24.htmlhttp://www.umbc.edu/che/ncta/http://www.greecejapan.org/vaporis.htmhttp://www.sainsbury-institute.org/http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event40774.htmlhttp://www.research.umbc.edu/~vaporis/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8