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Telephone: (617) 552-2142 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 449 Email: franziska.seraphim@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001
Fields of Interest
Modern and contemporary Japanese history: social, political, and cultural; historical memory; social movements; relations with Asia; global history
Academic Profile
Professor Seraphim is a historian of modern and contemporary Japan and joined the faculty in 2001. Her work has focused on the contested place of Japan’s empire and war in Asia in postwar politics, society, and culture. Currently, she is researching questions of nationality and citizenship in the politics of social integration and exclusion, from the aftermath of World War II to the challenges of immigration and ethnic diversity in Japan today. Professor Seraphim offers historical surveys of early modern and modern Japan, topical courses on the Asia-Pacific War and Japanese society since 1945, as well as seminars on the Allied Occupation of Japan, the atomic bombings, and the place of memory in history.
Representative Publications
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War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2006)
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“Relocating War Memory at Century’s End: Japan’s Postwar Responsibility and Global Public Culture” in Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Rana Mitter, eds. Ruptured Histories: War and Memory in Post-Cold War Asia (Harvard University Press, 2007)
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“Japan” in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
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“Kriegsverbrecherprozess in Asien und globale Erinnerungskulturen” in Wolfgang Schwentker, et al., eds. Diktaturen und Kriege im kollektiven Gedächtnis: Italien, Japan, und Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Fischer Verlag, 2003).