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Department of History and Philosophy
Brett Walker
Department Chair
(PhD, University of Oregon, 1997)
Early modern Japan, Japanese frontiers, Japanese environmental and medical history, History of East Asian science
Office: Wilson 2-155
Phone: 406-994-4395
E-Mail:
bwalker@montana.edu
Fall 2009
Courses HSTR 140D; HSTR 484
Office Hours: by appointment
HSTR 140
syllabus
HSTR 484
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Recent Publications:
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan, foreword by William Cronon (Seattle: University of Washington Press, Forthcoming).
Gregory Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker, eds. JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life (Ann Arbor Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005).
The Lost Wolves of Japan, foreword by William Cronon (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005). Nominated: George Perkins Marsh Prize (ASEH), John King Fairbank Prize (AHA), and John Whitney Hall Prize (AAS).
The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001; paperback reprint, 2006). Nominated: John Whitney Hall Prize (AAS).
(Japanese translation of The Conquest of Ainu Lands.)
Awards, Grants, Activities
Principal Investigator for “Technological Symmetry and Hybrid Environments at the Ashio and Anaconda Copper Mines.” NSF Social Studies of Science, Engineering, and Technology Grant for Collaborative Research submitted with Prof. Tim LeCain (2007-2010).
Meritorious Research Award, College of Letters and Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (2007).
Charles & Nora L. Wiley Faculty Award for Meritorious Research, Office of the Provost, Montana State University (2006).
Leopold-Hidy Award for best article published in journal Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History (2005).
J. William Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship, Japan-United States Educational Commission, Tokyo, Japan (1995-97).
Courses Taught
CLS 101 “College Seminar”
HIST 109 “Modern Asia”
HIST 115 “History of Japan”
HIST 371 “Age of the Shoguns”
HIST 372 “Japan’s Long Nineteenth Century”
HIST 401 “Seminar in Historical Methodology”
HIST 409 “Japanese Women’s History”
HIST 465 “Science, Technology, and Environment in Japan”
HIST 468 “Animal Histories”
HSTR 484 “World Environmental History”
HIST 512 “Topics in World History”
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