Simon Partner
Professor of History
Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
- Chair of the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2022
Contact Information
- 303 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
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spartner@duke.edu
(919) 684-3014
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Columbia University 1997
- M.Phil., Columbia University 1994
- M.A., Columbia University 1993
- M.A., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 1985
- M.B.A., University of Manchester (United Kingdom) 1984
- B.A., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 1980
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director in the Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Office of Global Affairs 2009 - 2015
- Associate Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2011
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2003
- Assistant Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2003
- Recognition
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In the News
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JAN 28, 2015
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Awards & Honors
- Humboldt Research Award. Humboldt Foundation. 2015
- Partnership in a Global Age. Mellon Foundation. 2013
- Japan Foundation Fellowship. Japan Foundation. 2005
- Smith Faculty Enrichment Fellowship. Duke University. 2003
- Rikkyo University Visiting Professorship. Rikkyo University. 2000
- Traditional Fulbright Scholarship. Council for International Exchange of Scholars. 2000
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Project GO: ROTC Chinese Language Initiative awarded by Institute for International Education 2012 - 2015
- Asian Pacific Studies Institute (NRC) awarded by Department of Education 2010 - 2015
- Creation of Triangle Center for Japanese Studies awarded by Japan Foundation 2011 - 2014
- National Resource Centers awarded by Department of Education 2006 - 2011
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Research Fellow awarded by International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto 2019 - 2020
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Partner, S. Merchant's Tale, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. The Merchant's Tale Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. Columbia University Press, 2017.
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Jackson, Emma, and S. Partner. Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City. MacFarland & Company, Inc., 2013.
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Partner, S. The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925. University of California Press, 2009.
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Partner, S. Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan. University of California Press, 2004.
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Partner, S. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
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Partner, S. Saying Yes to Japanese Investment. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.
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Partner, S. Mergers and Acquisitions Manual. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991.
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Academic Articles
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Partner, S. “Art and Gender in an Age of Revolution.” Japan Review 2021, no. 36 (January 1, 2021): 61–87. https://doi.org/10.15055/00007771.Full Text
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Partner, Simon. “Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945 (Accepted).” Journal of Japanese Studies 46, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 195–99.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN.” Pacific Affairs 93, no. 4 (2020): 818–20.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “Making Medicine a Business: X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895–1945. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xiv + 199 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth. $139.99. ISBN: 978-981-10-8158-3.” Business History Review 93, no. 02 (2019): 421–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680519000795.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Japan’s global peace moment.” Japan Forum 30, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 543–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2018.1534134.Full Text
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Partner, Simon. “Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 by Samuel Hideo Yamashita.” The Journal of Japanese Studies 43, no. 1 (2017): 189–93. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0021.Full Text
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Partner, Simon. “Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry by Jeffrey W. Alexander.” The Journal of Japanese Studies 41, no. 2 (2015): 392–97. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0036.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Review of Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan by Andrew Gordon.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 73 (June 2013): 211–15.
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Partner, Simon. “Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan by Andrew Gordon.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 73, no. 1 (2013): 211–15. https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2013.0003.Full Text
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Partner, Simon. “Review of Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War by Penelope Francks.” The Journal of Japanese Studies 34, no. 1 (January 2008): 106–9. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0041.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Peasants into citizens?: The Meiji village in the Russo-Japanese war.” Monumenta Nipponica 62, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 179–209. https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0042.Full Text
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Partner, Simon. “Review of Isami's house: Three centuries of a Japanese family by Gail Bernstein.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38, no. 2 (2007): 339–40. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2007.38.2.339.Full Text Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “Review of Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan by David Ambaras.” Monumenta Nipponica 62, no. 3 (January 2007): 372–74. https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0062.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Review of Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village by Dimitri Vanoverbeke.” Monumenta Nipponica 60 (December 2005).
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Partner, Simon. “Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation, 1924-1938 (review).” Monumenta Nipponica 60, no. 4 (2005): 533–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0050.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Review of Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda.” Monumenta Nipponica 59, no. 1 (2004): 143–45.Link to Item
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Partner, S. “A time of crisis: Japan, the great depression, and rural revitalization.” Agricultural History 76, no. 4 (September 1, 2002): 713–15.Link to Item
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Partner, S. “Review of A Time of Crisis by Kerry Smith.” Agricultural History 76 (2002): 713–15.
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Partner, S. “Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan.” Monumenta Nipponica 56 (December 2001).
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Partner, S. “Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965.” Monumenta Nipponica 56, no. 4 (January 2001): 487–520. https://doi.org/10.2307/3096671.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside.” Enterprise and Society 1 (December 2000).
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Partner, S. “Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside, 1950–1970.” Enterprise and Society 1, no. 4 (January 1, 2000): 762–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/1.4.762.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II.” Monumenta Nipponica 55, no. 1 (2000): 128–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/2668391.Full Text Link to Item
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Partner, S. “Review of Culture and Technology in Modern Japan: Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds.” Edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka. Waseda Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2000).
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Partner, S. “Review of Japan’s Postwar Economy: Erich Pauer, ed.” Monumenta Nipponica 54 (September 1999).
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Partner, S. “Review of Sengo Nihon no Nögyöshi [A Postwar History of Japanese Agriculture] by Ino Ryüichi.” Social Science Japan Journal 6 (1999).
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Partner, Simon, and Erich Pauer. “Japan's War Economy.” Monumenta Nipponica 54, no. 3 (1999): 403–403. https://doi.org/10.2307/2668370.Full Text
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Partner, S. “Manufacturing Desire: The “Electrical Lifestyle” and the Nurturing of the Japanese Consumer.” Social Science Japan 12 (March 1998).
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Book Sections
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Partner, Simon. “OUT OF THIN AIR (1859-1860).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 1–40, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “YEARS OF STRUGGLE (1860-1864).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 41–90, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “PROSPERITY (1864-1866).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 91–141, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “TRANSFORMATION (1866-1873).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 143–206, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “THE MERCHANT'S TALE INTRODUCTION.” In MERCHANT’S TALE, XVII-+, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, Simon. “THE POWER OF A PLACE CONCLUSION.” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 207–25, 2018.Link to Item
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Partner, S. “Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45.” In The Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia, edited by Stewart Lone. Greenwood Press, 2007.
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Other Articles
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Lone, Stewart, ed. “Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45.” Greenwood Press, 2007.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- AMES 167: Ancient and Early Modern Japan 2023
- AMES 512S: Travel Japan 2023
- EAS 512S: Travel Japan 2023
- HISTORY 226: Ancient and Early Modern Japan 2023
- HISTORY 512S: Travel Japan 2023
- HISTORY 496S: Senior Thesis Seminar 2022
- HISTORY 792: Reading Topics-Independent Study 2022
- AMES 512S: Travel Japan 2021
- EAS 512S: Travel Japan 2021
- EAS 791: Reading Topics: Independent Study 2021
- HISTORY 393: Research Independent Study 2021
- HISTORY 495S: Senior Thesis Seminar 2021
- HISTORY 496S: Senior Thesis Seminar 2021
- HISTORY 512S: Travel Japan 2021
- HISTORY 791: Reading Topics: Independent Study 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Class and Gender in an Age of Revolution. Nichibunken Evening Seminar. Nichibunken. July 2020 2020
- Yokohama in the 1860s. Walk Japan Lecture Series. Walk Japan. July 2020 2020
- Art and Gender in an age of Revolution. Kyoto Lectures. École française d'Extrême-Orient . February 2020 2020
- The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. November 2018 2018
- JRC Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture. October 2018 2018
- Japan's Global Peace Moment. Meiji Japan in Global History. Duke University. November 2017 2017
- Dreams Deferred: A Japanese Villager and her Community, 1925-1970. Vienna University. June 2016 2016
- Japan in the Eyes of the World: Visual Culture in 19th Century Yokohama. Heidelberger Kunstverein. May 2016 2016
- Reluctant Embrace: Bodily Encounters in the Yokohama Treaty Port. Heidelberg University. May 2016 2016
- Marketing the Japanese Economic Miracle: The Case of the Electrical Goods Industry. Haifa University. March 2016 2016
- Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama. Goettingen University. March 2016 2016
- Media, visual culture, performance: Contesting and creating “Japan” in 1860’s Yokohama. Heidelberg University. January 2016 2016
- Small Town, Big Dreams: Yokohama Merchants in the 1860s. Harvard University Japan Forum. April 2015 2015
- In the Land of the Gods. Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Center. December 2012 2012
- Mummies, Mudras and Madmen: In Search of God in the Mountains of Japan. . UNC. December 2012 2012
- Postwar Japan as History. November 25, 2011 2011
- The Dance of Heavenly Wisdom. January 14, 2011 2011
- Mummies, Mudras and Madmen. December 3, 2010 2010
- Mummies, Mudras and Madmen: In Search of God in the Mountains of Japan. December 3, 2010 2010
- More Sons to Give: Individual, Village, and Nation in the Russo-Japanese War. October 4, 2010 2010
- Travel Narratives of East Asia. November 12, 2009 2009
- The Gods of Izumo. November 2, 2009 2009
- Toshie: The Transformation of the Japanese Countryside, 1925-1975. November 13, 2008 2008
- Peasants into Citizens? A Japanese Village at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. May 1, 2008 2008
- Fuqua Business School Lecture on Japan. April 29, 2008 2008
- NCTAN Teachers' Workshop. March 30, 2008 2008
- Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. March 1, 2008 2008
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