Oregon's two historians of China focus on the late imperial and modern eras, with a special emphasis on popular culture, Confucian social ethics, print culture, gender, and modern urban society. Its two historians of Japan focus on the premodern and modern eras, with particular emphasis on ideas, medical history, media culture, political economy, and urban society and culture. Recent graduates of the MA program have gone on to teaching positions at Honolulu Community College and UC San Diego, and to Ph.D. programs in History at Stanford University and UC Davis. Recent graduates of the Ph.D. program have landed tenure-track teaching positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Yale University, and Montana State University. The Imperial Family and the Media in Postwar Japan.
Current research focuses on the publishing industry and book culture in late imperial China.
Fields of interest include late imperial intellectual and social history. The Reconstruction of Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Work in progress includes a book entitled Capital of Water, Capital of Smoke on the production of urban space in the city of Osaka. Current Research interests include popular culture, material culture, and urban society and culture. The University of Oregon enjoys an established reputation for excellence in Asian Studies.