Lori Watt

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Assistant Professor, International and Area Studies Program

Office Contact Information

Degree

Ph.D. Columbia University

Degree

M.A. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo

Degree

B.A. Reed College

Office

Busch Hall, room 214

Office hours

For the Fall 2009 semester: Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm

Mailbox

Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1062
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Phone

314-935-6710

Fax

314-935-4399

loriwatt@wustl.edu

Research specialization

Political and Social History of Twentieth-Century Japan; Imperialism and Decolonization; Postwar and Postcolonial Migrations; Military Cultures

Publications

When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009

"Imperial Remnants: the Repatriates in Postwar Japan," in Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen, eds., Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2005, 243-255

"Tôhoku Dôhô: Haisengo Manshû ni okeru Nihonjin no sekai (The World of Japanese Refugees in Postwar Manchuria)." Higashi Ajia Kindaishi, March, 2003, 87-97

Awards

The National History Center's Seminar on Decolonization, July 2008

SSRC/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, April-May, 2008

Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University, Spring semester 2008

NEH Faculty Fellowship, awarded 2006, used 2007-8

Harbison Faculty Fellow 2005-7

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship 2002-3

Curriculum Vitae

Watt cv

Courses

Japan Since 1868
The Japanese Empire in Asia, 1874-1945
East Asia Since 1945
Japan in World War II
Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
East Asia in Scholarly Literature
Crossing Borders I
History and Historians of Asia

WORKS IN PROGRESS

BOOK PROJECTS:

The Allies and the Ethnic Unmixing of Asia, 1945-1946, seeks to gain a better understanding of the Allied-managed population transfers throughout East Asia at the end of the war, from the level of policy formulation in Washington to how displaced East Asians experienced the implementation of those policies on the ground.

The 'Ordinary Men' of Japan: the Takada 58th Infantry Regiment is a social history of a particular regiment of men, from their mobilization in Niigata in 1937 through the years of waging war in central China to defeat in Burma, and for survivors, across their postwar lives. This research seeks to understand how the men made sense of their histories as part of a larger effort in understanding the ramifications of Japan's war on China, 1937-1945

ARTICLES

"A Serendiptious Friendship: Visions of Japanese Settlers in Seoul in 1945," is an exploration of how civilians in Seoul understood, or rather, misunderstood, their prospects in the autumn of 1945, as expressed in the bulletin Keijo Nihonjin Sewakai kaiho.