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Eiko.Maruko@williams.edu Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Associate Professor of History, specializes in the history of modern Japan and is particularly interested in issues of political violence and democracy. Her book Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists focuses on violence specialists, or the professionally violent, and examines the ways in which ruffianism became embedded and institutionalized in the practice of politics. She argues that for much of Japans modern history, political violence was so systemic, enduring, and intimately bound up with politics that Japan can be considered a violent democracy Professor Siniawer teaches a variety of classes on Japanese history, including surveys of early modern and modern Japanese history, a first-year seminar on the Japanese empire, a 300-level course on U.S.-Japan relations, and a tutorial on war memory. She also offers a class on the comparative history of organized crime and a History 301. She holds a Ph.D. in history and an A.M. in East Asian studies both from Harvard University, and a B.A. in history from Williams College. Books: Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008). Articles: "Liberalism Undone: Discourses on Political Violence in Interwar Japan," Modern Asian Studies (forthcoming). Organized Crime in Japan,¯ Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Mediated Democracy: Yakuza and Japanese Political Leadership,¯ in Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy, ed. Felia Allum and Renate Siebert (New York: Routledge, 2003). Modern Japanese Political and Social History Modern History of Political Violence History of Organized Crime History of Waste in Modern Japan Megan Brankley, Class of 2008, Re-Imagining an Indonesian National History after the New Order¯ Asian Studies Departments Legal Studies Program back to Faculty main page |
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