For Applicants/Students: Introduction of the Resident Director

Biography

1958 Born in Texas, USA
1979 B.A. with Honors, University of Oregon (Asian Studies)
1986 A.M., Stanford University (History)
1989 Ph.D., Stanford University (History)
1989 Began teaching at Obirin (now J. F. Oberlin) University, Tokyo
1991-1995 Director, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama
2007-2012 Vice-President for International Affairs, J. F. Oberlin University
2012-2016 Dean of Graduate Studies, J. F. Oberlin University
2016-2018 Founding Dean, College of Global Communication, J. F. Oberlin University
2016- Resident Director, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies

Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present (Co-edited with Philip C. Brown) (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015) (order from press)
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500 - 1300 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006年) （order from press）
To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003年)
Nihon no “kyokai”: Zenkindai no kokka, minzoku, bunka (Japan’s “Boundaries”: State, Ethnicity, and Culture in Premodern Times). Tokyo: Aoki Press, 2000.
Kokkyo no tanjo: Dazaifu kara mita Nihon no genkei (Birth of the Frontier: Early Japan as Seen from Dazaifu). Tokyo: NHK Books, 2001.

“Climate and Environment in History.” In The Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History, edited by Karl F. Friday, 23-37. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Hakata and Dazaifu: Crossroads, Boundaries, and Identity Formation in Ancient Kyushu.” In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, edited by Andrew Cobbing, 13-23. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
“Early Japan and the Continent.” In Japan Emerging: Introductory Essays on Premodern Japanese History, edited by Karl F. Friday, 89-97. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012.
“An Open and Shut Case? Some Thoughts on Late Heian Foreign Trade.” In Currents in Medieval Japanese History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey P. Mass, edited by Gordon M. Berger, et al., 303-332. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2009.
“Climate Change in Japanese History and Prehistory.” Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies No. 2009-01. Cambridge, Mass.: Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 2009.
“Cross-Border Traffic on the Kyushu Coast, 794-1086.” In Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries, edited by Mikael Adolphson, et al., 357-383. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007.
“Frontiers and Boundaries of Premodern Japan.” Journal of Historical Geography 25, no. 2 (1999): 166-182.
“Provincial Administration in Early Japan: From Ritsuryo kokka to Ocho kokka.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 53, no. 1 (1993): 103-134.

“Documentary Evidence for Institutional Change at the Dazaifu, 1000-1185.” Kokusai bunka kenkyu (Obirin University) 11 (1990): 23-60.