SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Teaching

Programmes Convened

• MA Film and History

Courses Taught

• Dissertation in Film and History
• Film as History
• H383 Modern Japan
• Japanese Modernity I
• Japanese Modernity II
• Sex and Gender in the 20th Century: Contemporary Japan

PhD Students supervised

• Iris Haukamp, Reassessing a German-Japanese film-project during World War 2 : Why context(s) matter(s)
• Martyn Smith, The Discourse on Nation in Postwar Japan: 1952-1972

Research

Dr Gerteis’ research interests traverse the history of twentieth century Japan. He is currently working on a book examining the extent to which for- and not-for-profit corporations have shaped popular longings for a reified past as a means to obfuscate less pleasant aspects of their institutional histories. The book argues that there has been a significant social cost, and potential fiduciary risk, to the ways in which executives of for- and not-for-profit corporations in Japan have chosen to contrive historical memories and nostalgic longings for so-called ‘golden eras’ of twentieth century history.

Dr Gerteis’ first book, Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male Dominant Unions in Postwar Japan, examines the the extent to which customary notions of work, gender and ethnicity influenced the formation of the socialist labor movement in postwar Japan. He is also co-editor, with Timothy S. George, of Japan Since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (Bloomsbury, 2012) and editor of Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (Brill, 2012).

PRINCIPAL GRANTS

• 2009-2012 Nippon Foundation Grant to support the SOAS Translation Initiative in Japanese Studies, which oversaw the translation and publication of four books and twenty journal articles while offering advanced post-graduate training in scholarly translation for the humanities and social sciences.
• 2008-2009 Fulbright Faculty Research Grant, Senator J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, for nine months of field research in Japan.
• 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies for one year in residence at the Yale University Council on East Asian Studies.
• 2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. Declined to accept a tenure-track position at Coastal Carolina University.
• 2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会) for one year in residence at the Ōhara Institute for Social Research at Hōsei University.
• 1997-1999 Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (文部科学省) for eighteen months of research and study at Meiji University, Tokyo.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2011 2nd Prize Book Award, European Association for Japanese Studies for Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009). This is a tri-annual award selected from all books published in Japanese Studies between 2009 and 2011.

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• East Asia

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• Japan

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