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University of British Columbia |
Institute of Asian Research
1855 West Mall
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
Canada
| Phone: (+1-604) 822-6237 | Fax: (+1-604) 822-5207 |
| 2002-present | Assistant Professor and Keidanren Chair in
Japanese Research Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia |
| 2001-02 | Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Fellow East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge |
| 2003 | Princeton University,
Ph.D. Sociology Dissertation: "Teaching Portrayals of the Nation - Postwar History Education in the Germanys and Japan" Abstract (PDF) |
| 1996 | Princeton University,
M.A. Sociology Areas of Examination: Economic Sociology, Japan in Comparative Perspective, Sociology of Organizations |
| 1992 | University of California at Berkeley, B.A. Sociology, magna cum laude, with University distinction, Minor in Philosophy |
"Japanese Shadow Education: The Consequences of School Choice" in Forsey, Davies & Walford, eds. The Globalisation of School Choice?. Oxford: Symposium Books, in press.
"The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education in Postunification Germany" in Cole, ed. Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007: 31-50.
"How Did We Become a Learning Generation?". WZB Lectures [Lectures of the Social Science Research Center Berlin]. 2007 (17): 44-50.
with Matthias König "Zur Ambivalenz der universalistischen Weltkultur - Konfliktbearbeitung und Konfliktdynamik aus Sicht des neuen soziologischen Institutionalismus" [The Ambivalence of a Universal World Culture - Dispute Resolution and Dispute Dynamics in the New Sociological Institutionalism] in Bonacker and Weller, eds. Konflikte der Weltgesellschaft. Akteure - Strukturen - Dynamiken [Conflicts in World Society]. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2006: 127-148.
with Dirk Zorn, Frank Dobbin, and Man-Shan Kwok "The New New Firm". Nordiske Organisasjons-Studier [Nordic Organization Studies]. Vol. 3 (2006): 41-68.
Guest editor with Kathryn Ibata-Arens and Dirk Zorn "Special Issue on the Embedded Enterprise". Enterprise & Society: The International Business History Journal. Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2006).
with Kathryn Ibata-Arens and Dirk Zorn "Theoretical Introduction to the Special Issue on the Embedded Enterprise". Enterprise & Society. Vol. 7 (March 2006): 1-18.
with Mayumi Saegusa "Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution into Japanese Legal Education". Journal of Japanese Law. Vol. 10, No. 20 (2005): 101-114.
with Dirk Zorn "Soziologischer Neo-Institutionalismus" [Sociological Neo-Institutionalism] in D. Kaesler (ed.) Aktuelle Theorien der Soziologie [Current Theories in Sociology]. Munich: CH Beck, 2005: 313-31.
"Heritage, Wende and National Identity: Portrayals of the Nation in German and Japanese History Education of the 1980s" in E. Matthes and C. Heinze (eds.) Das Schulbuch zwischen Lehrplan und Unterrichtspraxis - Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Schulbuchforschung [Textbooks Between Curriculum and Teaching Praxis - Contributions to Historical and International Textbook Research]. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt Forschung, 2005: 247-63.
"The Stability of Postwar Japanese History Education Amid Global Changes" in E. Vickers and A. Jones (eds.) History Education and National Identity in East Asia. London: Routledge, 2005: 255-74.
"The Decline and Rise of the Nation in German History Education" in H. Schissler and Y. Soysal (eds.) The Nation, Europe and the World: Textbooks and Curricula in Transition. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004: 82-103.
with Dirk Zorn, Frank Dobbin and Man-shan Kwok "Managing Investors: How Financial Markets Reshaped the American Firm" in K. Knorr Cetina and A. Preda (eds.) The Sociology of Financial Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004: 269-89.
"Nihon no Chûgakkôyô Rekishikyôkasho de Egakareru Kokkazô to Keikenshugiteki Rekishijojutsu" [Empiricist Historiography in Portrayals of the Japanese Nation in Middle-School History Education] in M. Watanabe (ed.) Jojutsu no Sutairu to Rekishikyôiku [Narrative Style and History Education]. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2003: 161-81.
with Daniel Levy "Institutionalizing the Past: Shifting Memories of Nationhood in German Education and Immigration Legislation" in J.-W. Müller (ed.) Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002: 244-264.
"Absence, Déclin ou Essor de la Nation: Manuels d'Histoire D'Après-Guerre au Japon, et dans les deux Allemagnes" [The Absence, Decline and Rise of the Nation: History Textbooks in Postwar Japan and the Germanys]. Genèses - Sciences Sociales et Histoire, 44 (Sept. 2001): 30-49. Abstract
"National Identity Construction and the Teachers' Unions of the Germanys and Japan, 1945-1955" in A. Dieckhoff and N. Gutierrez (eds.) Modern Roots: Studies of National Identities. Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2001: 174-95. Abstract
"Downsizing von Großunternehmen - Erfahrungen aus den USA" [Downsizing in Large Corporations - Experiences from the U.S.] in D. Bögenhold (ed.) Unternehmensgründung und Dezentralität [Business Foundings and Decentralization]. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999: 144-58. Abstract
"Research on Mongolia in Canada". Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2006, 13: 158-159.
"Teaching National Identity - Portrayals of the Nation in Postwar History Education in the Germanys and Japan". International Textbook Research, 2000 (Vol. 22, No. 4): 501-502.
Masako Shibata, Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-war Education Reform, in The Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter 2007, 33(1): 231-234.
Marie Roesgaard, Japanese Education and the Cram School Business: Functions, Challenges and Perspectives of the Juku, in H-Japan, November 20, 2006.
Curtis Anderson Gayle, Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism, in Pacific Affairs, Summer 2004, 77(2): 340-41.
Kozo Kato, The Web of Power: Japanese and German Cooperation Policy, in Pacific Affairs, Spring 2003, 76(1): 121-22.
Dengjian Jin, The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes, in
Contemporary Sociology, 2003, 32(2):
187-89. 
James Orr, The Victim as Hero, in Bulletin of the School of African and Oriental Studies, October 2002, 65(3): 625.
Yoshikuni Igarashi, Bodies of Memory, in Monumenta Nipponica, Autumn 2002, 57(3): 389-91.
Sebastian Conrad, Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Nation [The Quest for the Lost Nation. Historiography in West Germany and Japan, 1945-60], in DIJ Newsletter, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tôkyô, June 2000 (10).
Sebastian Conrad, Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Nation, in Minikomi, Akademischer Arbeitskreis Japan, Vienna, June 2000.
Mary Nolan, Visions of Modernity, in Contemporary
Sociology, May 1995, 24(3): 387-388.
"Canada's Opportunity in Mongolia". The Vancouver Sun. January 11, 2008: A9.
"Revising History". The Globe and Mail. May 13, 2005: On-Line.
with Yves Tiberghien "Shall We Dance?". The Globe and Mail. January 18, 2005: A17.
| 2003-04 | Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies |
| 2002 | Graduate Student Prize, American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology & Computers |
| 2001-02 | Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge |
| 1999 | Participant, Konstanzer Meisterklasse, University of Konstanz |
| Participant, Social Science Research Council Japan Program Dissertation Workshop | |
| 1998-99 | Foreign Research Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tôkyô |
| Dissertation Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tôkyô | |
| 1997-98 | Fellow, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Social Science Research Council and Free University Berlin |
| 1996-97 | Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Prize Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University |
| 2008 | "Regulatory Alchemy? How to Turn Resource-Based Windfalls into Sustainable Growth for Mongolia", Mongolia Society, Atlanta |
| "Single-Sex Education in the Japanese Supplementary Education Industry", Comparative and International Education Society, New York | |
| 2007 | "Mining in Mongolia: Building on Momentum in the Long Term", Ulaanbaatar Forum for East Asia, Ulaanbaatar |
| with Matthias König "Ambivalence in the World Polity - Conflict Resolution and Conflict Dynamics in Neo-Institutional Perspective", American Sociological Association, New York | |
| "Innovation in the Japanese Supplementary Education Industry". Videoconference Lecture Series, "Growing Pains: Challenges to Development in Northeast Asia", Centre for East Asian Studies, Université de Montréal | |
| 2006 | "Japanese Shadow Education: The Consequences of School Choice", international research symposium on "The Globalization of School Choice", Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth |
| "Empiricism in Postwar Japanese History Education Materials", Japan Studies Association of Canada, Kamloops | |
| 2004 | "The Role of Rural Juku in Shaping Education Aspirations", Japan Studies Association of Canada, Victoria | "Paukschulen auf dem Lande" [Cram Schools in the Countryside], Joint Congress of the Austrian, German and Swiss Associations for Education Research, Zurich |
| "Constructing the East German Nation through Schooling", Conference of Europeanists, Chicago | |
| "An Institutional Perspective on the Stability of Postwar Japanese History Education", Association for Asian Studies, San Diego | |
| 2003 | "The Rise of the COO: From Luxury
Sidekick to a Significant Player in Corporate Management" (with Frank
Dobbin, Man-shan Kwok and Dirk Zorn) American Sociological Association, Atlanta |
| 2002 | "Framing History after Defeat: Comparing Post-War Japan and the
Germanys" Research Colloquium, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge |
| "The Immobility of Portrayals of the Japanese Nation in
Middle-School History Education", workshop on "History Education from
Cognitive and Historiographical Perspectives" International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyôto |
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| 2001 | "The Conceptualisation of the Nation in Japanese History Education in
Comparative Perspective" International Convention of Asia Scholars, Berlin |
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"The
Early Postwar Institutionalization of War Memories in Japanese
Educational Policies" Association for Asian Studies, Chicago |
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| 2000 |
"From Stakeholders to Shareholders - The Development of Corporate
Public Affairs Offices, 1965-1994" (with Man-shan Kwok) American Sociological Association, Washington |
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"Prussification and Its Consequences: The Beginning and Early End of
the Modern German Nation in Postwar Textbook Portrayals" 12th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago |
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| 1999 |
"'Great
Peasants' and 'Prussification': The German Nation in Postwar Textbook
Portrayals" (PDF) 4th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Amsterdam |
| 1998 |
"The Institutional Context of Education Reform in Occupied Germany,
1945-1949" 11th International Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore |
| 1997 |
"Organizational Change and the Structure of Corporate Leadership in the
U.S." American Sociological Association, Toronto |
| 1996 |
"Japanese Teachers and Early Post-War National Identity" Social Science History Association, New Orleans |
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"Managementmythen als Ursache für Hierarchieabbau" 28. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Dresden |
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"Teaching National Identity - Germany and Japan 1945-55" American Sociological Association, New York |
| 2006-09 | "Choice, Curricula, and Cram Schools: Diversity in the Japanese Shadow Education Market" (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant) |
| 2006 | with Yves Tiberghien "Minerva's Moment: Japan, Canada and the EU in Global Institution-Building" (Japan Foundation) |
| 2004-present | "Dispute Resolution and Changing Legal Education in Japan", Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Research Initiative, Collaborator) |
| 2003-06 | with Yves Tiberghien "Toward an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership? Responses to Globalization in EU, Japanese and Canadian Policy-Making", European Commission grant to the Institute for European Studies, UBC |
| 2003 | "The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education In Post-Unification Germany", Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs' History and Politics of Reconciliation Program |
| April 2003-March 2005 | "Japanese Shadow Education", Large HSS Grant, Hampton Fund, University of British Columbia |
| 1996-present | Research assistant to and collaborator with Frank Dobbin, Harvard University: National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9631604. "From the Rights Revolution to Reengineering: The Construction of Corporate Departments" |
| 2005-present | Convenor, Mongolia Lecture Series, Program on Inner Asia, Institute of Asian Research, UBC |
| April 2002 | Co-organizer, Junior Scholars' Workshop on "Embedded Enterprise in Comparative Perspective" supported in part by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the Social Science Research Council |
| 2000-present | Chief Knowledge Officer, The SocioLog |
| October 2000 | Co-Organizer, Graduate Student Workshop on "National Identity and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective", supported in part by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the Japan Foundation. |
| 2000-present | Editor, Open Directory Project: Science: Social Sciences: Sociology |
| October 1999 | Co-Organizer, DIJ Social Science Workshop on "Goals and Reality of Educational Reform in Japan", German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo |
| 1995-present | Webmaster, WWW Virtual Library: Sociology listing of US institutions |
| 2001-04 | Founding Co-Chair, Thematic Network on Identities, Council for European Studies |
| 1993-2000 | Webmaster, website of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University |
| September 2007-present | Coordinator Program on Inner Asia, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia |
| July 2006-June 2008 |
Associate Member Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia |
| December 2004-June 2006 |
Associate Member Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia |
| September 2004-August 2005 |
Acting Director Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia |
| September 2003-present |
Associate Director Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia |
| January 2003-present |
Faculty Associate Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia |
| 2006 | Organizer, Regular Session on "Collective
Memory" American Sociological Association, Montreal |
| 2005 | Thematic Session organizer with Marion
Fourcade-Gourinchas, "Competing Perspectives on Comparative
Explanations: Area Studies vs. Comparative Sociology" American Sociological Association, Philadelphia |
| 2004 |
Panel organizer, "Education and Politics in Japan: The What, Why and
How of Change and Its Absence" Association for Asian Studies, San Diego |
| 2003 |
Panel organizer, "Immobilism in Japanese Education Reform" Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Honolulu |
| 2002 |
Panel organizer and discussant, "European Identities" Conference of Europeanists, Chicago |
| 2001 | Panel organizer, "The
Internationalisation of Schooling in Japan and East-Asian Chinese
Societies" 2. International Convention of Asia Scholars, Berlin |
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Presider and discussant, "Integrating the Web into Courses and
Curriculum: Demonstrations and Preliminary Research Findings" Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia |
| March 2005-present | Associate Editor and Member, Executive Committee, Pacific Affairs |
| Sept 2004-March 2005 | Acting Associate Editor, Pacific Affairs |
| April 2004-present | Member, Editorial Board, Pacific Affairs |
| 2001-03 | Research Editor (Sociology), Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies |
| 1995-97 | Member, Publications Committee and Homepage Editor, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American Sociological Association |
| 1991-92 | Member, Editorial Board, Berkeley Undergraduate Journal |
May 2008