Scholars@Duke

• 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

  • JUL 29, 2015

    the (Toronto) Globe and Mail

    Make Japan the World’s Peacekeeper

  • JUL 29, 2015

    The Globe and Mail

    Simon Partner: Make Japan the world's peacekeeper

  • APR 1, 2015

    ‘Fun Home’ Picked for Class of 2019 Summer Reading

  • FEB 4, 2015

    Toronto Globe and Mail

    Simon Partner: Japan is hamstrung by history

  • JAN 28, 2015

    Simon Partner Receives Humboldt Award
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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

  • Expertise

    • Japan (Country) 

  • Research

    • Italy (Country) 
• 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

  • Books

    • Partner, S. Merchant's Tale, 2018.
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    • Partner, Simon. The Merchant's Tale Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. Columbia University Press, 2017.
    • Jackson, Emma, and S. Partner. Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City. MacFarland & Company, Inc., 2013.
    • Partner, S. The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925. University of California Press, 2009.
    • Partner, S. Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan. University of California Press, 2004.
    • Partner, S. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
    • Partner, S. Saying Yes to Japanese Investment. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.
    • Partner, S. Mergers and Acquisitions Manual. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991.

  • Academic Articles

    • 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.
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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.
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    • Partner, Simon. “DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN.” Pacific Affairs 93, no. 4 (2020): 818–20.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
    • 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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    • Partner, S. “Review of Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village by Dimitri Vanoverbeke.” Monumenta Nipponica 60 (December 2005).
    • 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.
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    • Partner, S. “Review of Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda.” Monumenta Nipponica 59, no. 1 (2004): 143–45.
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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.
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    • Partner, S. “Review of A Time of Crisis by Kerry Smith.” Agricultural History 76 (2002): 713–15.
    • Partner, S. “Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan.” Monumenta Nipponica 56 (December 2001).
    • 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.
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    • Partner, S. “Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside.” Enterprise and Society 1 (December 2000).
    • 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.
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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.
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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).
    • Partner, S. “Review of Japan’s Postwar Economy: Erich Pauer, ed.” Monumenta Nipponica 54 (September 1999).
    • Partner, S. “Review of Sengo Nihon no Nögyöshi [A Postwar History of Japanese Agriculture] by Ino Ryüichi.” Social Science Japan Journal 6 (1999).
    • Partner, Simon, and Erich Pauer. “Japan's War Economy.” Monumenta Nipponica 54, no. 3 (1999): 403–403. https://doi.org/10.2307/2668370.
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    • Partner, S. “Manufacturing Desire: The “Electrical Lifestyle” and the Nurturing of the Japanese Consumer.” Social Science Japan 12 (March 1998).

  • Book Sections

    • Partner, Simon. “OUT OF THIN AIR (1859-1860).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 1–40, 2018.
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    • Partner, Simon. “YEARS OF STRUGGLE (1860-1864).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 41–90, 2018.
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    • Partner, Simon. “PROSPERITY (1864-1866).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 91–141, 2018.
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    • Partner, Simon. “TRANSFORMATION (1866-1873).” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 143–206, 2018.
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    • Partner, Simon. “THE MERCHANT'S TALE INTRODUCTION.” In MERCHANT’S TALE, XVII-+, 2018.
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    • Partner, Simon. “THE POWER OF A PLACE CONCLUSION.” In MERCHANT’S TALE, 207–25, 2018.
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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.

  • Other Articles

    • Lone, Stewart, ed. “Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45.” Greenwood Press, 2007.
• 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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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Clerk. Peace and Social Concerns Committee, Durham Friends Meeting. January 1, 2013  2013
  • Designer and Story-Teller. Murder Victims Website. November 15, 2008  2008

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