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Craig Christopher Robin Jamie
Section
Organization for International Initiatives
Job title
Professor
Degree

  • Ｐｈ．Ｄ．（コロンビア大学）

  • Ｍ．Ａ．（ブリティッシュコロンビア大学）

  • Ｍ．Ａ．（コロンビア大学）

  • Ｍ.Ｐｈｉｌ（コロンビア大学）

Research History 5

  • 2024/04 - Present
    Tohoku University　Center for Integrated Japanese Studies　Professor

  • 2015/10 - 2024/04
    Tohoku University　Department of Innovative Japanese Studies　Associate Professor

  • 2013/09 - 2015/05
    University of British Columbia, Okanagan　Department of History and Sociology　Lecturer

  • 2013/01 - 2013/05
    Concordia University　Department of History　Lecturer

  • 2006/01 - 2006/05
    Douglas College　History Department　Lecturer

Education 3

  • Columbia University　History　Ph.D.

    2006/09 - 2015/02

  • University of British Columbia　History　M.A.

    2004/09 - 2006/05

  • University of British Columbia　History　B.A.

    2002/09 - 2004/05

Research Areas 1

  • Humanities & social sciences / History - Japan /

Awards 7

  1. Postdoctoral Fellowship

    2013　Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  2. Shincho Graduate Fellowship for Study in Japan

    2010　Shincho Foundation for the Promotion of Literature

  3. Japanese Government Doctoral Research Scholarship

    2009　MEXT

  4. Japan Studies Fellowship

    2009　Japan Foundation

  5. Doctoral Fellowship

    2006　Social Sciences and Human Resources Research Council of Canada

  6. Richard Hofstadter Fellowship

    2006　Columbia University

  7. Graduate Scholarship

    2005　Social Sciences and Human Resources Research Council of Canada

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Papers 3

  1. Trauma Mediated: The 1933 Sanriku Earthquake and Tsunami in the Press

    Christopher Craig

    3.11: Disaster and Trauma in Experience, Understanding, and Imagination　2019/02

  2. Nihon no Tohoku chiho ni okeru nomin to Manshu imin: Miyagiken no jinushi, kosakunin o chushin ni Invited Peer-reviewed

    Christopher Craig

    Kanrin Nihongaku　2018　2018/01

  3. Rōkaru ni shikō, gurōbaru de seikatsu

    Christopher Craig

    Watashi no Nihon manabi　2017/12

Misc. 1

  1. Review: Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan by James L. Huffman

    Christopher Craig

    Social Science Japan Journal　2020/01

Books and Other Publications 10

  1. Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan

    Christopher Craig

    University of Hawai'i Press　2021/08

    ISBN: 9780824886257

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    Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Meiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to mobilize their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods, transform the physical landscape, and increase agricultural production. Farmers looked to the same figures to use their elevated status and government connections to direct public funds toward building prosperous villages. But economic shocks and social change created a new generation of elites with their own vision for agricultural improvement, leading to conditions that caused famine, economic disparity, and village unrest. The official and local responses to these discrepancies brought an end to the elite leadership of agricultural development at the beginning of the twentieth century, but its legacy set the course for farming and rural Japanese society for the next half century. Middlemen of Modernity offers a new perspective on Japanese modernization, one in which farming villages were neither premodern relics nor secondary concerns for the architects of the new nation. Modernity was worked out in the mud of rice paddies, as much as in any stateroom or factory, and the communities of Miyagi and villages throughout Japan helped shape the modern state, even as they were shaped by it. Mining a wealth of local sources, Christopher Craig provides a comprehensive study studded with stories of individual actors that remains closely connected to Japan's development and presents a history of agriculture from the early Meiji period to the postwar American occupation. Craig also engages with scholarship in environmental history and food studies, and his detailed treatment of the interactions between local villagers and central bureaucrats makes a valuable contribution to studies of state-society relations.

  2. Yonaoshi: Visions of a Better World

    Enrico Fongaro, Luca Milasi, James Tink

    Mimesis International　2022/09

    ISBN: 9788869774034

  3. 日本学の教科書 = Handbook for Japanese studies

    伴野, 文亮, 茂木, 謙之介, Craig, Christopher, 佐藤, 弘夫, 高橋, 章則, 大野, 晃嗣, 仁平, 政人, 荒井, 美咲, 君島, 彩子, Klautau, Orion, 雲然, 祥子, 田中, 重人

    文学通信　2022/03

    ISBN: 9784909658739

  4. Revolutionary times : a comparative view of the long 1960s in Japan and Italy

    安達, 宏昭, Del Bene, Marco, Fongaro, Enrico

    Mimesis international　2022

    ISBN: 9788869773952

  5. Images, Philosophy, Communication

    Craig, Christopher, Fongaro, Enrico, Milani, Raffaele, Tink, James

    Mimesis International　2021

  6. Furusato: ‘Home’ at the Nexus of History, Art, Society, and Self

    Craig, Christopher, Fongaro, Enrico, Tollini, Aldo

    Mimesis International　2020

  7. 3.11 : Fukushima, northeastern Japan and the conceptualization of catastrophe

    Craig, Christopher, Fongaro, Enrico, Niehaus, Andreas

    Mimesis International　2020

    ISBN: 9788869772207

  8. 3.11 : Fukushima, northeastern Japan and the conceptualization of catastrophe

    Craig, Christopher

    Mimesis International　2020

    ISBN: 9788869772207

  9. Knowledge and arts on the move : transformation of the self-aware image through East-West encounters

    Craig, Christopher, Fongaro, Enrico, 尾崎, 彰宏

    Mimesis international　2018

    ISBN: 9788869771323

  10. How to learn? = 学びの作法 : Nippon/Japan as object, Nippon/Japan as method = 対象としてのニッポン、方法としてのニッポン : acts of the 1st Symposium of the Hasekura League University of Florence Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi, 29-30 October 2015

    Craig, Christopher, Fongaro, Enrico, 尾崎, 彰宏

    Mimesis International　2017

    ISBN: 9788869770524

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Presentations 15

  1. Empire at Home, at Home in Empire: Transwar Land Reform in Japanese Farming Villages

    Christopher Craig

    HeKKSaGOn Global History from Asian Perspectives Joint Research Project Workshop　2021/09/02

  2. Lost in Mutation: Translation, Adaptation, and Nuclear Memory in Gojira and Godzilla, King of Monsters!

    Christopher Craig

    Translation and Modernity in Japan, University of British Columbia　2020/03/07

  3. Understanding Disaster: 3.11, Fukushima, and Social Trauma

    Christopher Craig

    Hasekura Workshop, Institute of Regional Studies, Jagiellonian University　2019/11/08

  4. Disaster in the Headlines: The 1933 Sanriku Earthquake and Tsunami in Media

    Christopher Craig

    3.11: Disaster and Trauma in Experience, Understanding, and Imagination　2018/03/13

  5. That Old Imperial One-Two: Landlords, Tenants, and the Colonization of Manchuria

    Christopher Craig

    Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia　2017/09/26

  6. Reflections on the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

    Christopher Craig

    Okanagan Regional Library, Kelowna, BC　2017/09/20

  7. Nihon no Tōhoku chihō ni okeru nōmin to Manshū imin: Miyagiken no jinushi, kosakunin o chūshin ni

    Christopher Craig

    Teikoku Nihon no kūkan to idō, Hallym University　2017/03/04

  8. Nature, National Character, and Unnatural Disaster: Problems at the Nexus of National Recovery and Nuclear Disaster

    Christopher Craig

    Knowledge and Arts on the Move, Tohoku University　2017/02/14

  9. Kanada kara Kashimadai e: Gaikokujin chihōshi kenkyūsha to shite ‘gurōbarizumu’ to ‘gurōkarizumu’ ni no kangae

    Christopher Craig

    Kamata Memorial Hall, Miyagi, Japan　2016/07/19

  10. From Mexico to Manchuria: Imagination, Emigration, and Imperialism in Rural Japan

    Christopher Craig

    Global History and Transformation of the Global Countryside, Ghent University　2016/07/04

  11. Internationalism, Transnationalism, and Postnationalism: Towards a Globalized Future

    Christopher Craig

    National Institute of Technology, Fukui College　2015/11/24

  12. Fighting the Farmers for National Wealth: Landlords, Tenants, and Smallholders in Japan's New Agricultural Order

    Christopher Craig

    Department of History, Ball State University　2014/01/18

  13. Hunger Games: Landlords, Tenants, and the Evolution of Agricultural Policy in Japan

    Christopher Craig

    Global History of Agrarian Labor Regimes, Harvard University　2013/04/26

  14. Water Pressure: Hydraulic Infrastructure and Rural Conflict in Northern Miyagi, 1892-1894

    Christopher Craig

    Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto　2012/03/18

  15. The Move to Improve: Rural Reform Movements and Village Society in Miyagi, 1895-1908

    Christopher Craig

    Joint Conference of the Association for Asian Studies & International Convention of Asia Scholars, Honolulu　2011/04/01

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