William B. Hauser
Professor
417 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
wbha@mail.rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.9359
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., Yale University, 1969
Courses Offered
(subject to change)
Spring 2009
HIS184: Modern Japan (CLT 204; JPN 215)
HIS296W: Women in East Asia (ANT 252; WST 251)
Fall 2009
HIS 105: Traditional Japan (JPN 216)
HIS 279/279W: Japan at War and After
Spring 2010
HIS184: Modern Japan (CLT 204; JPN 215)
Fields of Interest
Traditional and modern Japan; the cultural history of the Pacific war, East Asian women's history, Asian American history and literature.
My research interests are both early modern and modern Japanese history. I teach courses on Asian Women's History, Modern Japan, the Asian American Experience, and traditional Japanese society. Although I do not accept graduate students for Ph.D.s in Asian history, I am prepared to work with students who wish to prepare a minor field on East Asian history.
Representative Publications:
- "Textiles and Trade in Tokugawa Japan," in Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand, Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, ed. Vol. 12 of An Expanding World, Ashgate, (1998).
- "Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867," Ainslie T.Embree and Carol Gluck, eds. Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching, M.E. Sharpe, (1997).
- "Mingei and Japanese Society," in Mingei: Japanese Folk Art From the Montgomery Collection, Art Series International, (1995).
- "Osaka Castle and the Extension of Tokugawa Bakufu Authority to Western Japan," J. Mass and W.B. Hauser, eds., The Bakufu in Japanese History (1985) paperback reprint (1993).
- "Fires on the Plain: The Human Costs of the Pacific War" in Arthur Noletti and David Desser, ed., Reframing Japanese Cinema (1992).
- "A New Society: Japan Under Tokugawa Rule," in Dale Carolyn Gluckman & Sharon Sadako Takeda, eds. When Art Becomes Fashion: Kosode In Edo-Period Japan, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (1992).
- "Women and War: The Japanese Film Image," G.L. Bernstein, ed. Recreating Japanese Women (1991).
- "Why So Few? Female Household Heads in Early Modern Osaka," Journal of Family History (1986).
- "Some Misconceptions About the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan," The History Teacher (1983).
- "Osaka: A Commercial City in Tokugawa Japan," Urbanism Past and Present (1977-78).
- Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade (1974).
