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G. Cameron Hurst III

Professor, Japanese and Korean Studies

Director, Center for East Asian Studies

 

Education:

  • B.A. Stanford University, 1963.
  • M.A. University of Hawaii, 1966.
  • Ph.D. Columbia University, 1972.

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    Research Interests:

    Heian Japan; medieval Japan; Japanese military and martial arts history; premodern Japanese history; Silla-Koryo political history; US-Korean relations; Japanese-Korean relations.


    Selected Publications:

    An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (translation, with David Dilworth, of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Bummeiron no gairyaku). (Tokyo: Sophia University, 1973)

    Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan, 1068-1185. (Columbia, 1975)

    Samurai Painters (with Stephen Addiss). (Kodansha, 1983)
    Korea 1988: A Nation at the Crossroads. (University of Kansas, 1988)

    The Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery. (Yale, 1998)

    Major chapters in: Vols. II and III of Cambridge History of Japan; Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History; Court and Bakufu in Japan: Essays in Kamakura History; The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World; Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan; among others.


    Prizes/Awards/Fellowships:

    Fulbright Awards (to both Japan and Korea); Japan Foundation Fellowship (twice); Center for Global Partnership; NRC Title VI awards, seven times (Penn and Kansas); Korea Foundation; Luce Foundation Grant; Freeman Foundation Grant; Japan Foundation Faculty Expansion Grant; others.


    Courses:

    History of Premodern Japan; Japan: Age of the Samurai; Contemporary Japanese Society; Contemporary Korean Society; Korea: Remembering the Forgotten War; Modern Japanese History; Seminar: Medieval Japanese Texts.

             
               
    East Asian art

    Dr. Hurst is on leave for the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 semesters.

       

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