Todd A. HenryOn leave for calendar year 2013
Department of History
Department of History
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0104
La Jolla , California , 92093-0104(858)822-4012
H&SS Room: 3008
Curriculum Vitae
Todd A. Henry (Ph.D., UCLA, 2006; Assistant Professor) is a specialist of modern Korea with a focus on the period of Japanese rule (1910-45). He is also interested in social and cultural formations linking post-Asia-Pacific War South Korea, North Korea, and Japan (1945-present) within the geo-political contexts of American militarism and the Cold War. Dr. Henry is completing a book manuscript which examines the intersection of public spaces and colonial power in the city of Seoul. He is also beginning a new project – a comparative and transnational study of red light districts (including queer cultures) in 20th century East Asian cities with a focus on sexualized labor, colonial/military occupation, and the entertainment industry. Dr. Henry has received two Fulbright grants (Kyoto University, 2004-5; Hanyang and Ewha Women's Universities, 2013) and two fellowships from the Korea Foundation (Seoul National University, 2003-4; Harvard University, 2008-9). At UCSD, he is a core faculty member of the Korean Studies Initiative and an affiliate faculty member of the Program in Critical Gender Studies (CGS).
Publications
Books
- Assimilating Seoul: The Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-45 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Asia-Pacific Modern Series, 2014)
Articles
- “Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Korean Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-19,” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 64, no. 3 (Aug. 2005): 639-75
- “Respatializing Chosŏn’s Royal Capital: The Politics of Japanese Urban Reforms in Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-19” in Timothy Tangherlini and Sallie Yea (eds.), Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007): 15-38
- “Celebrating Empire, Fighting War: The 1940 Exposition in Late Colonial Korea” (in Korean), Asea yon’gu (The Journal of Asiatic Studies, Korea University), vol. 51, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 72-112
- “Assimilation's Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized Koreans as Yobos and the ‘Yobo-ization’ of Expatriate Japanese,” Positions: Asia Critique vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 11-49
- “Between Surveillance and Liberation: The Lives of Cross-Dressed Male Sex Workers in Early Postwar Japan,” in Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura (eds.), The Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2 (London and New York: Routledge, 2013): 399-413
- “Urban Sanitation and the Colonial City: Korean Engagements with ‘Hygienic Modernity,’” in Andre Schmid (ed.), Korea’s Colonialisms: A Reader (forthcoming)
- “Showcase Thoroughfares, Wretched Alleys: The Uneven Development of Colonial Seoul,” in Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary Karacas, and Kären Wigen (eds.), Cartographic Japan (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
Book Reviews
- Ann Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter Perdue (eds.), Imperial Formations (Santa Fe, N.M.: School for Advanced Research Press; Oxford [U.K.]: James Currey, 2007) in The Journal of World History vol. 21, no. 2 (June 2010): 349-53
- Mark E. Caprio, Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009) in Pacific Affairs vol. 83, no. 4 (Dec. 2010): 802-4
- E. Taylor Atkins, Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gave, 1910-1945 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010) in Korean Studies vol. 35 (2012): 352-7
- Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire, Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011) in Journal of Korean Studies (forthcoming)
- Richard S. Kim, The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-45 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) in The American Historical Review (forthcoming)
Translations
- “Inabata Katsutaro (1862-1947) and Non-Governmental Economic Diplomacy between Japan and Turkey” by Kimura Masato in Selcuk Esenbel and Inaba Chiharu (eds.), The Rising Sun from Japanese and the Turkish Crescent: New Perspectives on the History of Japanese-Turkish Relations (Istanbul: Bogazici University Press, 2003): 166-94
- “Lifestyles in the Gay Bars” by Kabiya Kazuhiko [originally published in Amatoria (Studies in sexual customs) June-August 1955] in Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Walker (eds.), Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from Japan’s Sexual Minorities (Lanham: Lexington Press, 2007): 105-38
- “Chosŏn’s Adoption of International Law and its Conflicts with China in the 1880s” by Yi Tae-jin in Dynamics of Confucianism and Modernization in Korean History (Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Series, 2007): 139-64
Courses Taught
- HILD 12: Twentieth-Century East Asia
- HIEA 150: Modern Korea, 1800-1945
- HIEA 151: The Two Koreas, 1945-Present
- HIEA 152: Histories and Cultures of the Korean Diaspora
- HIEA 153: Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Korea
- HIEA 180/280: Topics in Modern Korean History (2010: Touring Seoul)
- CGS 104: Advanced Topics in Comparative Perspectives (2012: Queer in East Asia: History, Culture, and Community)
- HIGR 207: Nationalism, Colonialism and Race
- HIGR 214: Historical Scholarship on Modern Korean History (2011: Gender/Sexuality; 2012: Cold War "Korea" as Transnational History)
Future Research
- Another project will trace the genealogies of what I am calling South Korea’s “Chosŏn Renaissance.” By this term, I mean to convey the uncanny ways in which selective elements of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910), previously considered a primary cause for the peninsula’s slide into Japanese rule (1910-45), were positively re-imagined as the basis for national identity and international tourism in post-colonial/anti-communist South Korea (1945-present). In particular, I will examine how “Chosŏn things” have come to circulate in overlapping forms which include the built environment, historical narratives, and popular culture.