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William B. Hauser

Position: Professor Emeritus

Field: Global

Specialty: Traditional and modern Japan; the cultural history of the Pacific war, East Asian women's history, Asian American history and literature.

Education: Ph.D., Yale University, 1969

Contact Info

417 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627

wbha@mail.rochester.edu

phone: 585.275.9359
fax: 585.756.4425

Fields of Interest:

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.

Courses Offered (subject to change)

  • HIS 105: Traditional Japan (JPN 216)
  • HIS184: Modern Japan (CLT 204; JPN 215)
  • HIS 279/279W: Japan at War and After
  • HIS296W: Women in East Asia (ANT 252; WST 251)

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).