Louise Young
Professor

eMail: louiseyoung@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1829
Office: 4123 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5038 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: On Leave

Education: PhD: Columbia University; MA: Columbia University; BA: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are Japan since 1868: foreign relations; social and cultural history.

My Research and Teaching Interests include WW2 in Asia, Sino-Japanese relations, Japanese fascism, comparative imperialism. Currently working on local history, urbanization and urban modernism.

Selected Publications:

• Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (University of California Press, 1998)
• “Japan at War: History-writing on the Crisis of the 1930s”, in The Origins of the Second World War, Reconsidered (Rev. ed., Routledge 1999)
• “Marketing the Modern: Department Stores, Consumer Culture and the New Middle Class in Interwar Japan”, in International Labor and Working-Class History (No. 55, Spring 1999)
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 104 - Introduction to East Asian History: Japan
• History 455 - Japans Modern Century, 1853-1952: Rise & Fall of the Imperial State

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Militarism and Fascism in Japan" Syllabus 2007 (pdf)
• History 680/690 - Honors Thesis Colloquium

Graduate Courses:

• History 703 - History and Theory
• History 855 - Seminar in Modern Japanese History - Topics: "Imperialism"; "Interwar and Wartime Japan Through Film and Literature" - Syllabus 2008 (pdf)