Each year, the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for grants to support research in the Libraries' Gordon W. Prange and East Asia Collections on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Holders of the Ph.D. or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply, as are graduate students who have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. The competition is open to scholars in all parts of the world and from any discipline, but historical topics are preferred. University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students may not apply. More information can be found at The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies.
A formal announcement for the 2013-2014 awards will be posted here in September 2013.
Award Recipients
2012-2013 |
Jessamyn Abel |
"Locomotives of Postwar Recovery: Development of the Bullet Train" |
| 2011-2012 | Charlotte Eubanks | "Archival Memory: The Marukis and the Politics of Visual Culture in Trans-War Japan" |
2011-2012 |
Ryan Holmberg | "Ten Cent Manga: American Comics and the Rise of Gekiga" |
2011-2012 |
Jolyon Thomas | "Japan's Preoccupation with Religious Freedom, 1890-1947" |
2010-2011 |
Justin Jesty | "Art and Social Movements in Postwar Japan, 1945-1960" |
2009-2010 |
No awards were given. |
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2008-2009 |
Franziska Seraphim | "Public Responses to the Allied War Crimes Program and SCAP's Purge" |
2008-2009 |
Aiko Takeuchi |
"Social Discussions over Female Reproduction in Postwar Japan" |
2007-2008 |
Erik Esselstrom | "The Politics of Thought Crime in Wartime and Occupied Japan" |
2007-2008 |
Ann Sherif | "The Influence of Progressive, Leftist, Religious and Regional Publishers on Art, Activism and Academia During the Occupation" |
2006-2007 |
Kyoko Omori | "The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950" |
2006-2007 |
Maki Umemura | "The Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan since 1945" |
2005-2006 |
Takashi Nishiyama | "Former Military Scientists and Engineers, 1919-1964," and "Labor Activism in the Japan National Railways, 1945-1955" |
2005-2006 |
Alicia Volk | "Democratizing Japanese Art, 1945-1960" |
2004-2005 |
Julia Adeney Thomas | "Photography and Democracy: Between History and Sex in Occupied Japan" |
2004-2005 |
Lee Pennington | "Wartorn Japan: Disabled Veterans and Society, 1931-1952" |
2003-2004 |
Vera Mackie | "A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan" |
2003-2004 |
Kenji Ito |
"Popular Perception of Science and Technology in Postwar Japan" |
| 2002-2003 | Helen Macnaughtan |
"Female Labor and the Allied Occupation of Japan" |
2002-2003 |
Miho Matsugu |
"Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country as a National Narrative of the Occupation: 1945-1948" |
2002-2003 |
Aaron Skabelund |
"Japan's Postwar Military, 1945-1989." |
2001-2002 |
Sonia Ryang |
"Japan's Emergence as an Anthropological Field" |
2001-2002 |
Sayuri Shimizu |
"Japanese Baseball under U.S. Occupation, 1945-1952" |
2000-2001 |
Michael Molasky |
"Reading Jazz in Postwar Japan" |
2000-2001 |
Lori Watt |
"Post-World War Two Repatriation in Japan, 1945-1958" |
1999-2000 |
Kristine Dennehy |
"Memories of Colonial Korea in Postwar Japan" |
1999-2000 |
Ben Dorfman |
"Local Religious Organizations in Postwar Japan" |
1999-2000 |
Joanne Izbicki |
"Orphans in Postwar Japan" |
