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Barbara Brooks

Associate Professor

School/Division

Division of Humanities and the Arts

Department

History

Affiliated Departments

Asian Studies

Office

NAC 5/218A

p: 212-650-6378

e: bbrooks@gc.cuny.edu

  • Profile

    Professor Brooks is a specialist on modern East Asia, particularly the Japanese Empire. She is now working on a new book on citizenship, gender, and ethnicity in the Japanese empire down to 1945. She has also received numerous grants, including Fuibright, ACLS, NEH, and SSRC.

  • Education

    • B.A., M.A., Yale Univ.
    • Ph.D., Princeton Univ.

  • Courses Taught

    • Modern Imperialism
    • Gender & Family in East Asia
    • Modern Japan
    • The Pacific War
    • US-East Asia Relations

  • Research Interests


    Her research interests focus on the period of Japanese imperialism, touching upon Japanese foreign relations and ethnic policies in Japan’s imperial expansion into East and Southeast Asia.

  • Publications

    Selected Publications:

    • Japan's Imperial Diplomacy (University of Hawaii Press, June 2000).
    • "Reading the Japanese Colonial Archive: Gender and Bourgeois Civility in Korea and Manchuria before 1932," in Kathleen Uno and Barbara Molony, eds., Gendering Modern Japanese History (forthcoming, Harvard Asian Monographs).
    • "Japanese Settler Culture in Korea and Manchuria," in Susan Pederson and Carolyn Elkins, eds., Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices and Legacies (forthcoming, Routledge).
    • "Japanese Colonial Citizenship in Treaty Port China: The Location of Koreans and Taiwanese in the Imperial Order," in Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot, eds., New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1952 (Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 109-125.

    • "Peopling the Japanese Empire: The Koreans in Manchuria and the Rhetoric of Inclusion," in Sharon Minichiello, ed., Japan's Competing Modernities (University of Hawaii Press, 1998), pp. 25-44.

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