EDUCATION:
Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.
Certificate, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, 1994.
A.M., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992.
B.A., History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1989.  Fulbright Scholar Summa Cum Laude.
Exchange Student, Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Hirakata-shi, Osaka, Fall 1988.

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
Associate Professor of History, Northern Illinois University, 2003-.
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of California-Berkeley, Spring 2003.
Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University, 1997-2003.
University Affiliate Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Summer 1997.
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Spring 1997.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 1996.
Visiting Instructor, Department of History, University of Arkansas, Summer 1996.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Modern Japanese cultural history; transnational popular culture; aesthetics; war, empire, and culture; Japan-Korea relations; public memory and memorialization; Bahá'í Faith history; oral history.

BOOKS:
(Editor) Jazz Planet.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.  Forthcoming October 2003.

Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan.  Durham: Duke UP 2001.

• Winner, 2003 John Whitney Hall Prize, awarded by the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

• Finalist, 2002 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music category).
 

“Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture.” Education About Asia 8.1 (Spring 2003): 17-20.

"Korean P'ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing."  Co-authored with Katharine C. Purcell. East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies 2 (2002): 63-84.

Contributor, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition.  Ed. Nicolas Slonimsky.  New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.

"Can Japanese Sing the Blues?  'Japanese Jazz' and the Problem of Authenticity."  In  Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture.
Ed. Timothy J.  Craig.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.  27-59.  Revised version to be reprinted in Robert Walser, ed., Playing Changes: New Jazz Studies, accepted for publication by Duke University Press.

"Jammin' on the Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community in Interwar Shanghai."  Japanese Studies 19.1 (May 1999): 5-16.

"The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan." positions: east asia cultures critique 6.2 (Fall 1998): 345-92.

"Nipponism in Japanese Painting, 1937-45." The Wittenberg Review 1.1 (1990): 61-76.

SELECTED AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:
John Whitney Hall Prize for Blue Nippon, 2003.
NIU Faculty Development Grant, 2000.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998 (declined).
Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Research Travel Grants, 1998, 2003.
Fulbright Fellowship for Graduate Study Abroad, 1993-95.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990.
Phi Beta Kappa Scholar of the Year, University of Arkansas, 1989.

INVITED LECTURES:
Asia Blue Conference, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, October 30-November 1, 2003.
The Once and Future Archipelago: Current Trends in Japanese Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, May 30, 2003.
Center for East Asian Studies Japan Brown Bag Series, Stanford University, April 21, 2003.
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 25, 2002.
East Asian Colloquium Series, Indiana University , October 11, 2002; and September 17, 1999.
Cultural History Series, Indiana University, October 10, 2002.
School of Music Colloquium Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October  4, 2002.
Japan Forum Series, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, April 19, 2002.
Westminster College, Fulton, MO, February 14, 2001.
Globalization in East Asia: Negotiating Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries.  Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, April 8, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
OHRP/USC National Human Subject Protections Education Workshop, July 16-17, 2001.
Korean Culture and Society Institute, Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center,  2000.
Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, NIU, 1999.
Joint Council on Japanese Studies (SSRC) Dissertation Workshop, 1996.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Contributing Editor, "Viewpoints," Association for Asian Studies' Asian Studies Newsletter, 2003-06.
Midwest Japan Seminar Executive Committee, 2001-03.
NIU Institutional Review Board, 2001-03.
Academic Subcommittee, NIU Presidential Task Force on Asian Americans, 1999-2000.
Faculty advisor, NIU Anime Association, 1998-.
Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Oral History Project, 1998.

NIU COURSES:
HIST 141 Asia Since 1500
HIST 171 The World Since 1500
HIST 346 Women in Asian History
HIST 350 Japan to 1600
HIST 351 Japan since 1600
HIST 352 Popular Culture in Japan
HIST 399 Honors Seminar (The Jazz Revolution)
HIST 470 America and Asia
HIST 497 Oral History
HIST 498J Korean War
HIST 560 Reading Seminar in Asian History