E. Taylor Atkins, Ph.D.

• Distinguished Teaching Professor of History
• Fulbright Student Program Advisor
• 2024 Outstanding International Educator 

Education

• Ph.D., history, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
• Certificate, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, 1994
• M.A., history, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992
• B.A., history, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1989. Fulbright Scholar summa cum laude

Research Interests

Modern Japanese and Korean cultural history; ethnomusicology and jazz studies; transnational popular culture; public memory; colonialism; and Bahá’í Faith history. Dr. Atkins has done pioneering work in the interdisciplinary field of “New Jazz Studies,” working to internationalize scholarship on jazz.

Professional Affiliations

• American Historical Association
• Association for Asian Studies
• Association for Bahá'í Studies
• Japan Center for Michigan Universities
• Midwest Japan Seminar