Aaron Skabelund

Tues 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Wed 11:00 – 1:00 PM

• Hist 345. Japanese Cultural History
• Hist 490.

Biography

Dr. Skabelund joined the history department in 2006 after completing a Ph.D. in modern Japanese history at Columbia University and a postdoctoral fellowship with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Hokkaido University. His first book project examines the social and cultural history of Western and Japanese empires by an analysis of human-canine relations. In a second project, he explores the history of the Japan’s post-Second World War military, commonly known as the Self-Defense Force. Skabelund’s publications include Inu no teikoku: Bakumatsu Nippon kara gendai made (Empires of Dogs: From Bakumatsu Nippon to the Present), trans. Motohashi Tetsuya (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, in press); “Fascism’s Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and Racial Purity in 1930s Japan,” in The Culture of Japanese Fascism, (Durham NC: Duke University Press, in press); "Rassismus züchten: Das imperiale Schlachtfeld des 'Deutschen' Schäferhunds" (Breeding Racism:  The Imperial Battlefields of the “German” Shepherd), in Tier in der Geschichte (Animals in History), ed. Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch (Paderborn:  Schöningh, in press); and “Can the Subaltern Bark? Imperialism, Civilization, and Canine Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Japan,” in JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life, ed. Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker (Ann Arbor:  Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005).

Classes Taught:

• Hist 202. World Civ from 1500
• Hist 344. Modern Japan
• Hist 345. Japanese Cultural History