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STEVEN J. ERICSON
Curriculum Vitae (10/16)
Department of History
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-2996
EDUCATION
Ph.D.Harvard University, Department of History, 1985
A.M.Harvard University, Department of History, 1977
B.A.Michigan State University, Honors College, 1975
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
Associate Professor, Department of History, Dartmouth College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1995-97Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Economics, West Virginia University
1989-95Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dartmouth College
1987-89Assistant Professor, Departments of History and East Asian Studies, Brown University
1984-87Lecturer, Department of History, Harvard University
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 Sum.Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship
2013 Sum.Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Research Travel Grant
2001 Sum.Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Research Travel Grant
1998-99Social Science Research Council, Japan Program Advanced Research Grant
1995, 96 Sum.Course Development Grants, West Virginia University
1994 SpringJapan Foundation Research Fellowship
1993 FallFaculty Fellowship, Dartmouth College
1985-87Faculty Aide Program Grant, Harvard University
1982-83Japan Institute Grant, Harvard University,
1978-79Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
1978-79Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
1978-79Ministry of Education Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
1976-78, 79-81Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
1975Phi Beta Kappa
1971-75National Merit Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan. Harvard
East Asian Monographs, 168. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1996.
Qi di de shengyin: Riben Mingzhi shidai de tielu yu guojia, trans. Chen Wei and Yue Yanna (Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, 2011). Chinese translation of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan.
The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies (conference volume co-edited with Allen Hockley). Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2008.
Translation:
Ushimura Kei, Beyond the “Judgment of Civilization”: The Intellectual Legacy of the Japanese War Crimes Trials, 1946-1949. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2003.
Articles:
“Orthodox Finance and ‘The Dictates of Practical Expediency’: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881-1885,” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 71, no. 1 (2016), pp. 83-117.
“Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 41 (Summer 2015), pp. 317-345.
“The ‘Matsukata Deflation’ Reconsidered: Financial Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881-85.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 40 (Winter 2014), pp. 1-28.
“Riding the Rails: The Japanese Railways Meet the Challenge of War.” In The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, vol. 2, pp. 225-249. Ed. John Steinberg et al. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007.
“Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan” (with Mark Jones). In A Companion to Japanese History, pp. 172-188. Ed. William M. Tsutsui. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006.
“Taming the Iron Horse: Western Locomotive Makers and Technology Transfer in Japan, 1870-1914.” In Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan, 1600-1950: Essays in Honor of Albert M. Craig, pp. 185-217. Ed. Gail Lee Bernstein et al. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005.
“Kinoshita Yoshio: Revolutionizing Service on Japan’s National Railroads.” In The Human Tradition in Modern Japan, pp.115-133. Ed. Anne Walthall. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002.
“Literature in the Japanese History Classroom.” Education About Asia, vol. 6
(Spring 2001), pp. 48-51.
“The Industrial Revolution in the Twentieth Century, with a Focus on Japan and the East Asian Followers.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15 (Fall 2000), pp. 24-29.
“Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry.” In Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia (Osiris, vol. 13), pp. 129-153. Ed. Morris F. Low. Chicago: History of Science Society, 1999.
“‘Poor Peasant, Poor Country!’ The Matsukata Deflation and Rural Distress in Mid-Meiji Japan.” In New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan, pp. 387- 396. Ed. Helen Hardacre. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.
“Waging the ‘War of the Abacus’: Japanese State Purchase of the Seoul-Pusan
Railway.” Asian Cultural Studies, vol. 21 (March 1995), pp. 33-48.
“The Engine of Change: Railroads and Society in Meiji Japan.” KSU Economics and Business Review (Kyoto Sangyo University), no. 21 (May 1994), pp. 37-60.
“Railroads in Crisis: The Financing and Management of Japanese Railway Companies During the Panic of 1890.” In Managing Industrial Enterprise: Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience, pp. 120-82. Ed. William D. Wray. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1989.
“Private Railroads in Meiji Japan: Forerunners of Modern Japanese
Management?” In Japanese Management in Historical Perspective, pp. 51-77. Ed. Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1989.
Miscellaneous:
“Japan in World History: 1750-1914” (interview). In Education About Asia 13.2:15-18 (Fall 2008).
Portsmouth and Its Legacies: Commemorating the Centennial of the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty of 1905 (conference report, with Allen Hockley and Kenneth Yalowitz). Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College, 2006.
Prospects for Partnership: The United States and Japan on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century (conference report, with Michael Mastanduno). Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1996.
Bound to Lead? Domestic Challenges and the Capacity for International Leadership in Japan and the United States (conference report, with Michael Mastanduno and George Demko). Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1995.
"Suggested Reading." In Edwin O. Reischauer and Marius B. Jansen, The
Japanese Today, enlarged edition, pp. 445-449. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1995.
Revision and partial translation of Hidemasa Morikawa, Zaibatsu: TheRise and Fall of Family Enterprise Groups in Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1992.
Entry on “Matsukata fiscal policy.” In The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1983.
Book Reviews:
Review of Mark Metzler, Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), in Journal of Japanese Studies 40.2:530-534 (Summer 2014).
Review of Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), in The European Legacy 19.6:794-795 (September 2014).
Review of Andrew Gordon, Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), in American Historical Review117.5:1573-1574 (December 2012).
Review of Peter von Staden, Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan (New York: Routledge, 2008), in Journal of Asian Studies 70.1:247-249 (February 2011).
Review of David G. Wittner, Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan (London: Routledge, 2007). In Monumenta Nipponica 63.2:423-425 (Autumn 2008).
Review of Gregory Clancey, Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). In American Historical Review 113:474-475 (April 2008).
Review of Haruo Iguchi, Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1953 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003). In Journal of Japanese Studies 32.2:436-440 (Summer 2006).
Review of Kuriyama Shigehisa and Hashimoto Takehiko, eds., The Birth of Tardiness: The Formation of Time Consciousness in Modern Japan, Special Issue of Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, no. 14 (2002). In Social Science Japan Journal 9.1:128-131 (April 2006).
Review of Philip Atkins, Dropping the Fire: The Decline and Fall of the Steam Locomotive (Bedfordshire, U.K.: Irwell Press, 1999). In Isis 93.4:753-754 (December 2002).
Review of Michael Lewis, Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in
Toyama, 1868-1945 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000). In American Historical Review 107.1:175 (February 2002).
Review of Kudô Akira, Japanese-German Business Relations: Cooperation and
Rivalry in the Inter-war Period (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).
In Social Science Japan Journal 4.1:119-121 (April 2001).
Review of Albert J. Churella, From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and
Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American
Locomotive Industry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). In Isis
91.4:819-820 (December 2000).
Review of Louis G. Perez, The History of Japan (Westport, Conn., and London:
Greenwood Press, 1998). In Journal of Asian Studies 58.2:526-
528 (May 1999).
Review of Takashi Fujitani, Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in
Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1996). In Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59.1:233-240 (June 1999).
Review of Takeshi Yuzawa, ed., Japanese Business Success: The Evolution of a
Strategy (London and New York: Routledge, 1994). In Shakai keizai
shigaku (Socio-Economic History) 63.5:685-687 (December 1997-January
1998).
Review of Christopher Howe, The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). In American Historical
Review 102.5:1554 (December 1997).
Review of Andrew Fraser et al., Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905 (London
and New York: Routledge, 1995). In Journal of Asian Studies 55.1:166-168
(February 1996).
Review of Hirofumi Yamamoto, ed., Technological Innovation and the
Development of Transportation in Japan (Tokyo: United Nations
University Press, 1993). In Journal of Japanese Studies 20.2:539-542
(Summer 1994).
Review of Johzen Takeuchi, The Role of Labour-Intensive Sectors in Japanese
Industrialization (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1991). In
Journal of Japanese Studies 20.1:264-267 (Winter 1994).
Review of Tomohei Chida and Peter N. Davies, The Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding Industries (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: The Athlone Press, 1990). In The International History Review 14.4:858-860 (November 1992).
Review of Marie Conte-Helm, Japan and the North East of England (The Athlone
Press, 1989). In Journal of Asian Studies 50.1:151-152 (February 1991).
Review of Stephen E. Marsland, The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement
(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989). In Journal of Asian Studies
48.4:870-871 (November 1989).
Review of Akio Okochi and Shigeaki Yasuoka, eds., Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984). In Business History Review 60:687-689 (1986).
FORTHCOMING
“Japanese Agency and Business Reform in Occupied Japan:The Holding Company Liquidation Commission and Zaibatsu Dissolution,” in Thomas W. French, ed., The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan, under contract with Routledge; anticipated publication in 2017.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book project on the Matsukata financial reform of the 1880s and economic development in Meiji Japan.
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND LECTURE PRESENTATIONS
“Japanese Agency and Business Reform in Occupied Japan: The Holding Company Liquidation Commission and Zaibatsu Dissolution.” Presented at the XVIIth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 2015, and in the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study, co-sponsored by the Japanese Studies Programme of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics, December 2015.
“Intellectual Origins of Financial Stabilization in Japan, 1881-85: Rethinking Influences on the Matsukata Reform.” Presented at the Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, Paris, September 2014.
“Japan in a Global Depression: Deflation and Economic Growth in the Late 19th Century.” To be presented at the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, April 2014.
“Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 2014.
“Trends in the Study of Japanese Economic History: What We Have and What We Lack.” Presented at the Modern Japanese History Workshop, Columbia University, October 2013.
“The Matsukata Deflation and International Trade: Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1882-85. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 2013.
“The ‘Matsukata Deflation’ Reconsidered: Currency Contraction in a Global Depression, 1881-1885.” Presented at the International Workshop on 19th-Century Globalization and Colonialism, Kyoto University, March 2012, and at the XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch University, July 2012.
“Deflation by Default: The Adoption of the Matsukata Financial Program.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2009.
“Riding the Rails: Military Transport on the Japanese Home Front, 1904-1906.” International Conference on “World War Zero: Reappraising the War of 1904-5,” Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, May 2005.
“Importing Locomotives in Meiji Japan: International Business and Technology Transfer in the Railroad Industry.” Symposium on the History of Modern Japan, Harvard University, May 1999.
“Japan’s First Economic ‘Miracle’: The Meiji Transformation.” Symposium on “Reinventing Japan: Manipulating the Modern in Meiji,” McMullen
Museum of Art, Boston College, October 1998.
“The Matsukata Financial Reform and Industrial Policy in Meiji Japan.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, April 1996.
“Saving the Meiji Miracle? The Matsukata Financial Reform and Economic Development in Prewar Japan.” The New England Japan Seminar, Colby
College, September 1994.
“‘Poor Peasant, Poor Country!’: The Matsukata Deflation and Rural Distress in Mid-Meiji Japan.” The Meiji Studies Conference, Cambridge, Mass., May 1994.
“Financial and Economic Engineering in Meiji Japan: The Matsukata Reform of the 1880s.” Department of History, Harvard University, May 1994.
“The Engine of Transformation: Railroads and Society in Meiji Japan.” The
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, September 1993.
“The Great Train Robbery or the Great Escape? Private Investors and theRailway Nationalization of 1906-07.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., April 1992.
“Private Railroads in Meiji Japan: Forerunners of Modern Japanese Management?” The New England Japan Seminar, Mount Holyoke College, December 1988.
“Waging the ‘War of the Abacus’: The Nationalization of the Seoul-Pusan Railway Company.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., March 1984.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, SELECTED
2015-18Member, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, elected position (Vice Chair, 2016-17, Chair, 2017-18)
2015Lecturer and Keynote Speaker, National Faculty Development Institute on “Incorporating Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum,” San Diego State University.
2015Wrap-Up Session Commentator, International Conference on “Global History and the Meiji Restoration,” Universität Heidelberg.
2014Organizer of the dual panel “Japan and the World, 1850s-1930s: Commercial and Financial Interactions,” Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, Paris.
2014Organizer and chair of the panel “Prewar Japan and Overseas Trade:
Gold, Rice, Pearls, and Opium,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia.
2013Organizer of the panel “Japan and the World in the 19th Century: Commercial, Financial, and Cultural Interactions,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego.
2009Organizer of the panel “Economic Thought and Policy in Early Meiji Japan: New Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago.
2007Co-organizer, Modern Japanese History Workshop, Dartmouth College, December 15
2007Consulting Scholar, Education About Asia, Special Section on “Asia in World History, 1750-1914,” Fall 2008 issue
2005-06President, New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
2003-05Co-organizer, “Portsmouth and Its Legacies: An International Conference Commemorating the Centennial of the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty of 1905,” September 8-10, 2005
2003-04Co-organizer, Annual Meeting of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, November 5-6, 2004
2001-11Guest Professor, “History of Japan Since 1800,” Online Course, University of Maryland University College
2002Chair of the panel “Water Politics: An Approach to Japanese Environmental History,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C.
1998-15Manuscript Reader, SUNY Press, Cornell University Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Asia Center, Palgrave, University of British Columbia Press, Laurence King Publishing, Association for Asian Studies, and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (book manuscripts) and Education About Asia, Technology and Culture, Enterprise and Society, Labor History, Social Science Japan Journal, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Law and History Review, and Science in Context (journal-article manuscripts)
1998Commentator for the panel “The Technical Encounter between the United States and Japan, 1870-1950: New Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York
1994-95Co-Director, Dartmouth-International House of Japan Conference Series on “Japan and the United States on the Eve of the 21st Century: Prospects for Joint Leadership”
1991Local Arrangements Chair, Annual Meeting of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Dartmouth College
1991Lecturer and Panel Participant, The 1991 NEH East Asian Confucianism
Seminar, Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Smith College
SERVICE ACTIVITIES, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
College-Wide
2015Member, Selection Committee, Goldstein Internships in Japan, Dickey Center for International Understanding
2014-16Member, Committee on Standards
2014-15United Way Coordinator for History Department
2012-14Member, Steering Committee, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program
2013-15Participant, Dickey Center Manuscript Reviews for Soyoung Suh, Jennifer Miller, and Sunglim Kim
2012-15Member, Steering Committee, “DartWrite: Dartmouth’s Plan for Writing Excellence”
2011-12Member, Planning Committee for College Writing Summit
2011 Nov.-Dec.Acting Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program
2009-History Department Liaison, Teacher Education Program, Education Department
2008-11Member, Yonsei Exchange Program Selection Committee, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program
2007-09Faculty Adviser, Dartmouth Journal of Asian Studies
2006Member, Dean’s Advisory Group for Asian American Studies
2005 JuneLecturer (“Comparative Occupations: Lesson Learned from Japan and Iraq”), Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles Seminar
2004-11Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program
2005-07Alternate Member, Committee on Senior Fellowships
2004-05Member, Committee on Senior Fellowships
2003-04Acting Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program
2003-04, 05-06Member, Korean Studies Search Committee, Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies Program
2003-04Chair, Committee on Senior Fellowships
2003-04Chair, Phi Beta Kappa Nominating Committee
2004Co-organizer, Dartmouth Area Studies Planning Group
2001 Feb.Lecturer (“Miracle No More: Can Japan Rise Again?”),
Dartmouth Club of Dallas Seminar
2000-03Member, Phi Beta Kappa Nominating Committee
2000-01Faculty Adviser, MOSAIC Bi/Multi Racial/Cultural
Organization at Dartmouth
1998-2001Member, Committee on Off-Campus Activities and COCA Subcommittee on Transfer and Exchange Credit
1998 Oct.Speaker and Discussion Co-Leader, “The Rape of Nanking: A Forgotten Crime,” Dartmouth China Society
1997 SummerMember, Committee on Standards
1996-97Member, Senior Fellowship Nominating Committee, Phi Beta Kappa
1996 Nov.Speaker and Discussion Leader, Korea Forum, Korean- American Students Association
1994 Oct.Speaker, World Affairs Council
1994 Oct.Participant, presentation on the Presidential Scholars program, Class of 1959 mini-reunion
1994 MaySpeaker, orientation meeting organized by the Dartmouth Club of Japan for a group to visit Dartmouth from Nihonmatsu, Japan