E. Taylor Atkins
Presidential Teaching Professor
Fields of Study: Asia (Japan & Korea), Colonial Empires, Cultural/Intellectual, Global, Memory and Commemoration
E-mail: etatkins@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-6699
Office: Zulauf 702
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
Current Research: A global study of responses by adherents of the Baha'i' Faith to colonialism and decolonization
Major/Recent Publications:
Books
- Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-45. Colonialisms 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
- (Editor) Jazz Planet. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2003.
- Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Durham: Duke UP 2001.
Articles/Book Chapters
- "The Dual Career of 'Arirang': The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit." Journal of Asian Studies 66.3 (August 2007): 645-687.
- "Popular Culture." In William Tsutsui, ed., A Companion to Japanese History. Blackwell Companions to World History. Malden, MA, & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 460-76.
- "Sacred Swing: The Sacralization of Jazz in the American Bahá‡'í’ Community." American Music 24.4 (Winter 2006): 383-420.
- "Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture." Education About Asia 8.1 (Spring 2003): 17-20.
- "Korean P’ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing" (co-authored with Katharine C. Purcell). East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies 2 (2002): 63-84.
Teaching Interests:
In addition to general education surveys in modern Asian and world history, and a three-semester, 300-level sequence in Japanese history, I enjoy learning and teaching new material outside of my comfort zone. I have developed thematic courses on the Korean War, the Japanese empire, and Asian women's history, as well as methodological courses such as HIST 295 and 494. At the graduate level, I have taught reading seminars in Japanese history and modern colonial empires, and a research seminar on using popular culture in historical investigation.
Courses Taught:
- HIST 141 Asia Since 1500
- HIST 171 The World Since 1500
- HIST 295 Historical Methods
- HIST 346 Women in Asian History
- HIST 350 Japan to 1600
- HIST 351 Japan since 1600
- HIST 352 Popular Culture in Japan
- HIST 398 Themes in World History: The Korean War
- HIST 399H Honors Seminar
- HIST 444 The Japanese Empire
- HIST 490 Special Topics: Knights And Samurai (with Professor Valerie Garver)
- HIST 494 Oral History
- HIST 495 Senior Thesis
- HIST 690 Modern Colonialism
- HIST 790 Research Seminar