I’m a cultural historian of modern Korea with interests in national identity formations, class and gender relations, food and food ways, cultural memory, and Cold War Korea/Cold War Asia. My first book, Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea, explored South Korean public discourse on postcolonial nation building during the formative post-Korean …
My specialization is Educational Policy Studies. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of American and European education and on an array of reform movements in American history. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison M.A., Bowling Green State University B.A., Wilkes College Books Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History William Reese. …
I am a scholar of United States history and Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a particular research focus on Native schooling. I teach courses in American Indian History, Native education, and environmental history. My first book, Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and Indigenous Schools (UPenn Press, 2026) is an intellectual history of America’s most prominent …
Louise Young is Marilyn B. Young WARF Professor of Japanese History. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including Fulbright, Japan Foundation, and Social Science Research Council fellowships, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include social and intellectual history, Japanese imperialism, the Asia-Pacific War, …