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Research
Stephen Vlastos teaches Japanese history. His major field of research has been early modern and modern rural social movements and political economy. He has written on agrarian protest upheaval in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; "tradition" and modernity in Japanese culture; and Vietnam War historiography. Stephen is currently working on a book on radical agrarianism in the early twentieth century and is researching cultural and racial constrictions of Japan in American cinema.
For the past 3 years Stephen has served as director of the UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies where he secured a major grant from the Freeman Foundation to upgrade undergraduate education in Asian Studies.
Stephen has served on numerous national executive and advisory committees related to Japanese studies, including the ACLS-SSRC Joint Committee on Japanese Studies and the Japan Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Council. In 1996 he was elected to the Northeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies, and in 1998-99, he served as chair of that council. Stephen has been affiliated with several Japanese universities over the years, including Rikkyo, Meiji, Kyoto, and Tokyo Universities. In 1995, he held a Distinguished Visiting Lectureship at Meiji University in Tokyo. In 1999, he was the Visiting Toyota Professor at the University of Michigan Center of Japanese Studies. Stephen received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977 and his BA from Princeton University in 1966.
Stephen regularly advises students interested in Japanese studies at Iowa or exchange programs with Japanese or Korean universities. He is happy to help.
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