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Awards and
Service
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Japanese
American Leadership Delegation, 2011
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Chair, Northeast
Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies,
2010-2011
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George and Eleanor Woodyard
International Educator Award, University of Kansas,
2007
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William Rockhill Nelson Award for
Non-Fiction, 2005
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W.T. Kemper
Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of
Kansas, 2001
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Steeples Service
to Kansans Award, University of Kansas, 2001
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ACLS Fellowship,
2001-2002
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John Whitney
Hall Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2000
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Newcomen Society
Award for Excellence in Business History Research
and Writing, Business History Conference, 1998
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Fulbright-IIE
Graduate Research Fellowship, 1991-1992
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FLAS/National
Resource Fellowship in East Asian Studies, Princeton
University, 1988-1991
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Marshall
Scholarship, 1985-1987
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Phi Beta Kappa,
1985
Books
and Essays
Banking Policy in
Japan: American Efforts at Reform during the Occupation
(Routledge, 1988. Re-issued 2010).
Manufacturing
Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century
Japan (Princeton University
Press, 1998).
Godzilla on My
Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Japanese translation:
Gojira to Amerika no hanseiki, Kamiyama Kyōko,
trans. (Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2005).
Japanese Popular
Culture and Globalization
(Association for Asian Studies, 2010).
(editor) Banking
in Japan, 3 volumes (Routledge, 1999).
(editor with Michiko
Ito) In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture
Icons on the Global Stage (Palgrave Macmillan,
2006).
(editor) A
Companion to Japanese History (Blackwell, 2007), a
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.
(editor with Michael
Baskett) The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008:
Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China
(Global Oriental/Brill, 2011).
William M. Tsutsui is a specialist in the business,
environmental, and cultural history of twentieth-century
Japan. He has authored or edited eight books as well as
numerous articles and chapters on topics ranging from
Japanese industrial management to the “big bug” movies
of the 1950s to the history of Kansas art. Prior to
joining SMU in 2010, Tsutsui spent seventeen years at
the University of Kansas, where he served as acting
director of KU's Center for East Asian Studies
(1999-2001, 2004), chair of the Department of History
(2007-2008), founding executive director of the
Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas
(2006-2008), and associate dean for international
studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
(2008-2010). He is a past president of the Kansas State
Historical Society and former program committee chair of
the Kansas Humanities Council. His current research
interests include Godzilla and the globalization of
Japanese popular culture, the Japanese environment
during World War II, the obsessions of birdwatching and
trainspotting, and the history
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