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Kameya Kameya

I specialize in the cultural and intellectual history of Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868).  My research interests include gender, the formation of national identity, intellectual exchange within Northeast Asia, and borderlands such as Okinawa and Hokkaido.  My dissertation examines the values promoted in the first Japanese biography collection on eccentrics, Kinsei kijinden (Eccentrics of our times, 1790), as a response to moral, economic, and poetic issues of that time.  By doing this, I investigate an emerging consciousness valuing the individual in the late Tokugawa Period.  I joined the history department at Kent State in August 2006, shortly after completing my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.  I currently teach the second half of the world history sequence, and courses on gender in early modern East Asia, and Japanese national identity.