Christopher W.A. Szpilman

Christopher W.A. Szpilman
Professor, Modern Japanese History and International Relations,
Faculty of International Cultures, Kyushu Sangyo University

SPECIALIZATION:
Modern Japanese History, Japanese Political History,
Intellectual History, Japanese Right Wing, Pan-Asianism

EDUCATION

1982-1993 1993 1985 1985 1984	Yale University PhD History MPhil History MA History MA East Asian Studies
1986-1989	Research Associate, Faculty of Law, Tokyo University
1978-1980 1980	School of Oriental and African Studies, London University BA (1st Class Hons), Japanese
1970-1973 1973	Leeds University, UK BA (Hons), Russian/Philosophy

DISSERTATION

The Politics of Cultural Conservatism:The National Foundation Society in the Struggle against Foreign Ideas in Prewar Japan, 1918-1936, Yale University, 1993

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2004-2006	Lecturer (part-time) in Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Seinan Gakuin University
2003-2004	Visiting Scholar, E.O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
2002-2008	Lecturer (part-time), Graduate School, Law Faculty, Kyushu University
2002-2005	Lecturer (part-time) in international relations, Kyushu Sangyo University
2000-2003	Lecturer (part-time) in political thought, Kita Kyushu Metropolitan University
1997-2003	Visiting Professor, Nihon Bunka Kenkyujo, Takushoku University
1996-1998	Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Literature, Tokyo University
1995-1996	Lecturer (part-time), Ajia University
1993-1994	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College
1991-1993	Lecturer, Department of History, Old Dominion University