Curriculum Vitae
Paul D. Barclay

EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Deptartment of History, Lafayette College, 2006-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lafayette College, 1999-2006.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota, July, 1999.
M.A., History, University of Minnesota, 1996.
B.S., Secondary Education, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.

DISSERTATION
"Japanese and American Colonial Projects:  Anthropological Typification in Taiwan and the Philippines."  University of Minnesota, July, 1999.  Co-Advisors: Byron K. Marshall and David W. Noble.

WORK IN PROGRESS
General Editor, Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection, 1937-1941.

Book Manuscript:  The Imperial Centrifuge:  Japan’s Colonial Subalterns and the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan, 1873-1930.

PUBLICATIONS (ENGLISH)

cover artContending Centers of Calculation in Colonial Taiwan: The Rhetorics of Vindicationism and Privation in Japan’s “Aborigine Policy.” Humanities Research XIV no. 1 (2007):67-84. PDF

 

 

cover artCultural Brokerage and Interethnic Marriage in Colonial Taiwan: Japanese Subalterns and Their Aborigine Wives, 1895-1930. Journal of Asian Studies 64,2 (May 2005):323-360. PDF

 

 

cover art‘They Have for the Coast Dwellers a Traditional Hatred’: Governing Igorots in Northern Luzon and Central Taiwan, 1895-1915.  In The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives, ed. Julian Go and Anne Foster. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. pp. 217-255. PDF

 


cover art'Gaining Trust and Friendship' in Aborigine Country: Diplomacy, Drinking, and Debauchery on Japan's Southern Frontier. Social Science Japan Journal 6,1 (April 2003):77-96. PDF

 

 


cover artA ‘Curious and Grim Testimony to a Persistent Human Blindness’: Wolf-Bounties in North America, 1630-1752. Ethics, Place, Environment 5,1 (May 2002):25-34. PDF

 

 

 

cover artAn Historian Among the Anthropologists: The Inō Kanori Revival and the Legacy of Japanese Colonial Ethnography in Taiwan.  Japanese Studies 21, 2 (September 2001):117-136. PDF

 

 

 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (JAPANESE)

  • Bansan kōekijo ni okeru ‘banchi’ no shōgyōka to chitsujoka.  (Profits as Contagion, Production as Progress: Trading Posts, Tribute, and Feasting in the History of Japanese-Formosan Relations, 1895-1917). 
  • Taiwan Genjūmin Kenkyū (Studies on Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan) 9 (2005):70-109.
  • 'Seiban Kondō' no monogatari: chūō sanmyaku odan ni inochi o kaketa Nihonjin no shoden. (The Saga of 'Kondo the Barbarian': A Japanese Life Spent Crossing Taiwan's Central Mountains). Taiwan Genjūmin Kenkyū (Studies on Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan) 8 (2004):105-151.
  • Azia ni okeru minzoku bunpuzu no hatten o megutte—Taiwan to Luzon no ‘senku’ jinruigaku o chūshin ni (Creating Tribal Taxonomies in Asia: The Pioneers of Taiwan and Luzon Anthropology). Taiwan Genjūmin Kenkyū (Studies of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples) 7 (2003): 174-197

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • One Market under God: The Death of the East Asian Political Imaginary in Colonial Taiwan. Research on Taiwan in the United States and New Research in Taiwanese History (2) at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Lin Benyuan Cultural Education Foundation. Nankang: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 2007.
  • Abstract Thought as the Lowest Common Denominator: What Early Early Japanese Travel Narratives to Taiwan’s Interior can Teach Us.  Hitotsubashi University. Nihon Taiwan Gakkai dai Hakkai Gakujutsu Taikai Hokokusha Ronbunshu (Proceedings of the Eight Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Taiwan Studies), June 3, 2006. pp. 80-89.
  • Profits as Contagion, Production as Progress: Trading Posts, Tribute, and Feasting in the History of Japanese-Formosan Relations, 1895-1917. International Symposium: Studies on Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan: Retrospect and Prospect in Japan and Taiwan.  Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. March 26-27, 2005.  pp. L1-L36.
  • Nihonjin shokuminchisha to genjumin no koryu mondai: Taiwan no 'Bankai' ni okeru tsuji to tsuyaku o megutte.  (The Problem of Communications between Japanese Colonists and Aborigines:  The Interpreters and Translators on Taiwan's 'Savage Border').  21 seiki COE Puroguramu 'Gulorabaruka jidai no tagenteki jinbungaku no kyoten keisei. (Facing the New Liberal Arts: 'Multiple Points of Origin and Crystallization in Humanitistic Study in the Era of Globalization). Kyoto: Kyoto University Graduate School of Humanities, 2003. pp. 85-95.

ESSAYS & REVIEWS
Peer Review and the Liberal Arts Classroom. Perspectives: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association 45:6 (September 2007):51-52.

Rev. of Alistair Swale,The Political Thought of Mori Arinori: A Study in Meiji Conservatism, Social Science Japan Journal 8,2 (October 2005):284-287.

Rev. of Lo, Ming-cheng M., Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan, Metascience 14,1 (March 2005):98-102.

Journal Review: “Taiwan Genjūmin Kenkyū.” The Chinese Historical Review 12,1 (Spring 2005):140-146.

Rev. of Leo T. S. Ching, Becoming 'Japanese': Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation, International History Review 24,4 (December 2002):906-908.

Propaganda or Documentary? The Shōwa Emperor and 'Know Your Enemy: Japan'. Education About Asia 7,2 (Fall 2002):31-38.

Rev. of  Willem Van Schendel and Henk Schulte Nordholt, eds., Time Matters: Global and Local Time in Asian Societies, Journal of Asian Studies 60,4 (November 2001):1142-1144.  

Rev. of Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds., Censoring History:  Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States, H-World, H-Net Reviews, April, 2001.

Rev. of Wang Tay-sheng, Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945:  The Reception of Western Law, Journal of Asian Studies 60,1 (February 2001): 157-159.

Rev. of Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu, eds, Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania, H-Asia, H-Net Reviews, May, 2000.

TRANSLATIONS [Japanese to English]
“Shared Abodes, Disparate Visions: Japanese Anthropology during the Allied Occupation,” by Nakao Katsumi, Social Science Japan Journal 10,2 (October 2007):175-196 PDF

Preface and translation, “Inō Kanori’s ‘History’ of Taiwan: Colonial Ethnology, the Civilizing Mission and Struggles for Survival in East Asia,” by Matsuda Kyōko, History and Anthropology 14,2 (2003):179-196.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
One Market under God: The Death of the East Asian Political Topographical Imagination in Colonial Taiwan. Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica. Taipei, Taiwan, December 7, 2007.

Meiji Colonial Ethnography and the “East Asian Modern” in Taiwan.  59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, MA. March 22-25, 2007.

Peer Review and the Liberal Arts Classroom. 121st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta Georgia, January 4th, 2007.

Abstract Thought as the Lowest Common Denominator: What Early Early Japanese Travel Narratives to Taiwan’s Interior can Teach Us.  Hitotsubashi University. The Eight Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Taiwan Studies, Tokyo, Japan, June 3, 2006.

Trade Restrictions along Ethnic Lines in Colonial Upland Taiwan, ca. 1895-1905.  18th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia.  Taibei, Taiwan.  December 6-10, 2004.

Commerce as Contagion and Uplift: Trade Restrictions along Ethnic Lines in Colonial Upland Taiwan, ca. 1895-1930.  21st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, Illinois.  November 21, 2004.

Nihonjin shokuminchisha to genjūmin no kōryū mondai: Taiwan no ‘bankai’ ni okeru tsūji o megutte (The Japanese-Aborigine Communication Problem: On the Intermediaries and Interpreters on Taiwan’s ‘Savage Border’). Higashi Azia ni okeru kokusai chitsujo to kōryū no rekishiteki kenkyū dai san kai (Third Meeting of the Research Group for the History of the East Asian International Order and Relations). Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. June 21st, 2003.[in Japanese]

 “The Policy Science that Failed? Meiji Anthropologists in Colonial Taiwan.”  Anthropology of Japan in Japan Fall Meeting.  November 2, 2002. Jōchi University, Tokyo, Japan.

"The Ethnologist as Entomologist:  Academic Modernity and its Discontents in Teshigahara Hiromi’s Suna no Onna." NEH Institute, "Modernity, Early Modernity, and Post-Modernity in Japan." University of Southern California, July 16, 2002.

"From Diplomacy to Debauchery: The Anthropology of Aborigine Drinking in Colonial Taiwan, 1873-1935." Japan Anthropology Workshop. Yale University, May 10-12, 2002.

"The Taiwanese “Banfu” in Imperial Japan:  Bi-Cultural Interpreters, Marriage Alliances, and Sexual Slavery in the Tribal Zone." Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 4-7, 2002.

“’Kenpai Jiken’:Drinking, Feasting, and Border Control on Japan’s East Asian Frontier, 1874-1930.”  Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference, Slippery Rock University, PA, October 26-28, 2001.

"'Time and the Other':  Inō Kanori, Formosan Plain Aborigines and Colonial Narrative."  International Conference on Formosan Plain Aborigines, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan, October 23-25, 2000.

"A Tale of Two Anthropologists:  Inô Kanori and Torii Ryûzô in Taiwan."  Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 10-12, 2000.

"Japan's Secular Crusade against Headhunting in Colonial Taiwan."  Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Gettysburg, PA, October 29-31, 1999.

"Imperial Japan and the Taiwanese Aborigines, 1874-1945:  Japan's Integration and Assimilation Policies." American Historical Association Conference, Washington, D.C., January 7-10, 1999.

“New Empires and Aboriginal Peoples: Comparative Approaches to Japanese and US Tropical Imperialism in the 20th Century, Taiwan and the Philippines.” Midwest Conference on East Asian History and Culture, Columbus, Ohio, May 11-12, 1996.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Tracking the Tracker: Kondō “the Barbarian” Katsusaburō, Imperial Japan, and the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan, 1873-1930.” East Asian Center, University of California, Santa Barbara. November 15, 2007.

Panelist at Workshop: “Colonialism and Its Legacies: Creating a Historical Datase.” Cornell Univesity, Ithaca, NY. September 22, 2007.

Panelist and speaker: “Iran, Iraq & Korea: An Axis of Evil?”  Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ.  March 27th, 2007.

“Anthropologists, Informants, and Visionaries: Bureaucratizing Knowledge in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1930.” Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology, Nankang, Taibei, Taiwan, June 8th, 2006

“Centrifugal Forces of Empire: Japan's ‘Aborigine Hands’ in Colonial Taiwan.”
Duke University, Asian Pacific Studies Institute Speaker Series, February 24, 2006

Shin Nihon no seinen toshite Inō Kanori (1867-1925): Sekaishi kara mita Taiwan no ‘senku’ jinruigaku (Inō Kanori as a ‘Youth of the New Japan’: Taiwan’s Pioneering Anthropologists Viewed from the Perspective of World History). Keio Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, June 13th, 2003. [in Japanese]

“In Search of Iwari Rōbao and Kondō the Barbarian:  Interpreters on the Aborigine Border under Japanese Colonial Rule.”  Women’s History Workshop, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.  March 20, 2003.

"Event, Myth, and Experience in Meiji Imperialism: Aspects of the Taiwanese Case as a Corrective to Japanese Exceptionalism." Pace University Asian Studies Roundtable, April 16, 2002.

"The Middle Ground and the Nation-State:  Japanese Colonial Rule in Upland Taiwan 1895-1915." Modern Japan Seminar, Columbia University, New York.  March 9, 2001.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
National Endowment for the Humanities Sabbatical Year Fellowship, 2007-08.
Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture Award, Lafayette College, 2006.
Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, 2005.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Lafayette College "Communities of Scholars" Grant: The Imperialism Project 2004-2007.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Research Grant 2002-2003.
American Council of Learned Societies Library of Congress Research Grant 2003 (Declined)
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, "Modernity, Early Modernity and Post-Modernity in Japan," USC, 15 June-21 July, 2002.
Social Science Research Council Japan Program Grant for Advanced Research, 2000.
Lafayette College Richard King Mellon Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2000, 2005, 2006.
University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-98.
University of Minnesota Graduate School Grant for Research Abroad, Summer 1997.
MacArthur International Predissertation Fieldwork Grant, Summer 1997.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant, 1995-96.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant, Summer 1995.
University of Minnesota Departmental Fellowship, 1993-94.
University of Wisconsin Hilldale Foundation Undergraduate Research, Summer 1992.
University of Wisconsin Undergraduate History Essay Prize, 1991-92.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Manuscript Reviewer: University of Hawai’i Press, Pearson Prentice Hall, Laurence King Publishing, Journal of Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, The Historian
 
Referee: Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship Competition; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Chinese 101, Lafayette College, Fall 2007.

[Japanese] Traditional Theatre Training Course, Kyōgen Section, Kyoto Center for the Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 20 July-11 August, 2007.

National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, "Modernity, Early Modernity and Post-Modernity in Japan," University of Southern California, 17 June-19 July, 2002.

Advanced Intensive Japanese for Professionals, Inter-university Center for Japanese Language, Yokohama, Japan.  June 19-July 28, 2000.

ASSOCIATIONS
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
History of Anthropology Network
Japan Anthropology Workshop

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
Courses

Fall 1999 through Fall 2006
INDS 120      Interim Abroad: Inside the People’s Republic of China (w/Kim Bennett)
History 105:   The Development of the Modern World
History 106:  Introduction to History: The Samurai: Icon, Myth and History;
                       Mandarins, Samurai, Emperors and Dictators: History through Biography
History 242    Premodern Japan: From Neolithic Times to 1850
History 247   Ancient, Classical and Imperial China
History 248   The Rise of Modern China
History 249   A History of Japanese Modernity
History 372   Studies in Asian History:  The Pacific Century;
Imperialism and War Crimes:  1850-1950;
The Japanese Imperial Institution and the Pacific War;
The Boxer Rebellion and Anti-Westernism in China
History 375     Nation-building in Iraq, Japan and Vietnam

Honors Theses, Director:
Thomas C. Soldan, “The World Baseball System: A New Perspective on Labor, Migration, and Sport” (2004)
Brian Geraghty, "The Contested 20th Century Struggle for Chinese Women's Emancipation and the Transformation of a National Essence." (2005)

Honors Theses, Outside Reader:
Nicolette Stavrovsky, "Women in Total War:  The Vicksburg Experience." (Dir. by Don Miller) (Spring 2000)
Shannon Tyburczy, "The Last Batushka:  Tsar Nicholas II and the Problem of Sovereignty in Late Imperial Russia." (Dir. by Joshua Sanborn) (Spring 2001)
Jessika Luth, "Economic Seismology:  John R. Freeman and the Origins of Earthquake Insurance." (Dir. by Donald Jackson) (2001)
Adam Buchwalter, “Researching the Bataan Death March and Why it Occurred” (dir. by Don Miller) (2004) 
Virginia Foulkrod, "Rising from the Rubble: The Armenian National Movement in the Wake of the 1988 Earthquake." (Dir. by Joshua Sanborn) (2005)
Steven Schrum,  "General George Monck and the English Restoration: A Man of Honor." (Dir. by Andrew Fix) (2005)
Jessica Lasak, "Francis Andrew March: His Contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary and His Impact on the Study of English Language." (Dir. by Bianca Falbo) (2005)
Alisandra B. Carnevale, “Shaping History Through Folk Narrative: Pettoranello di Molise, Italia and its Sister City Princeton, NJ USA.” (Dir. By Andrew Fix/Susan Niles) (2006)
Sandamali P. Wijeratne, “Federalism as a Possible Solution to Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict: A Comparative Search for Lessons.” (Dir. John Kincaid) (2006)

Independent Study:
Samantha Richardson.  "Footbinding, Gender, and Nationalism in Chinese History:  An Annotated Bibliography." (Spring 2000)
Greg Candia.  "Peasants and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam." (Fall 2000)
Sarah Lowrey: "Reading Japanese" (Spring 2002)

Excel Scholars
Greg Candia, Interim 2001 and Spring 2001.  "Ethnic Contact and Conflict in China's Treaty Ports 1870s-1890s."
Rebecca Moreland, Summer 2001. "God, Gold, and Gloom:  Indigenization from a World Historical Perspective."
Haotian Wu, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005 “Taiwan’s Miraculous Peoples.”
Keming Liang, Summer 2005, “The Qing-Meiji ‘Savage Border’ in History”
Peng Yi, Summer 2006, “Imperial Centrifuge: Bureaucracy and Knowledge”

Guest Lectures at Lafayette College:
Government and Law Forum:  The Unintended Consequences of Nationalism in 20th Century Asia, February 2, 2000
Experience Lafayette Weekend:  The Importance of History for Understanding the Current Crisis in the Taiwan Straits, April 16, 2000
FYS 076 (Professor Bennett) guest lecture:  3500 yrs. of Chinese History:  Three Frameworks for Managing the Unmanageable," Oct 4, 2000
Interfaith Chapel Brown-Bag Series:  "Election 2000:  Foreign Policy," panelist with John McCartney and Ilan Peleg, November 3, 2000.
"Japanese Colonization of Korea."  Government 224 (Professor Engelhart), February 13, 2001.  
"The Uses of Bibliographic Software for Scholars in the Humanities," Brown-bag presentation, Room 217, Skillman Library, October 4, 2001.  .
"Buddhism Comes to East Asia."  Religion 211 (Professor Rinehart), November 1, 2001. 
"Japan and the Pacific War: Pearl Harbor to Midway," History 351 (Professor Miller), February 19, 2002.  
"Beyond the Jordan Method:  Why Kanji Acquisition and Literacy are Fundamental to Japanese Language Learning," Japanese 102 (Professor Ariizumi), May 8, 2002.
“History in Faraway Places: Conducting Research in Japan and Taiwan.” Phi Alpha Theta Jury Awards Induction Ceremony Keynote Address, Nov 25, 2003.
"The Other World-War II: The Contemporary Importance of Japanese Military Aggression in 1930s China."  Hugel Hall, Public Lecture Sponsored by Japanese Interest Floor. Nov. 9th, 2004.
"Ethno-tourism in East Asia: A Historian's Analysis."  Guest Lecture for A& S 224 (Professor James) Lafayette College. Nov. 18, 2004.
"The Aborigine Trading Post as Site of Conquest and Commodification: The Case of Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1917." Lafayette College Academic Research Committee "Works in Progress" Series.  May 2, 2005.
Moderator and Presenter (w/Arnold Offner, Richard Sharpless, Andrew Smith and Donald Miller).  “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.” A Roundtable Discussion and Screening of an Errol Morris Documentary.  Lafayette College History Club and Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society.  November 17th, 2005.
“East Asia’s Deep Past: Narrative, Counter-narrative, and Identity” April 11; 18, 2006 (2 parts); “Contemporary China and Japan, Views and Analysis” April 20, 2006, INDS 112 (Prof. Rinehart)

Elected Committees:
Student Life Committee (2000-02)
Governance (2003-06)
Curriculum and Education Policy (2006-

Advisory Committees:
Asian Studies Advisory Committee (2001-present)
International Affairs Advisory Committee (2002-06)
Policy Studies Advisory Committee (2006-present)

Search Committees
Gov./Law one-year position in Comparative Politics (2001)
English one-year position in Modern American Literature (2001)
History tenure-track position African History (2003-04)
Provost Search (2005-06)
Chinese Language and Literature Search (2006-07)

Faculty Advisor:
History Club and Phi Alpha Theta, Beta Xi Chapter (History Honors Society) 1999-2005
Anime Club Fall 2003-present
Japanese Culture Special Interest Residential Floor 2006-