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Denis Gainty

Department of History

College of Arts and Sciences

Georgia State University


34 Peachtree Center Ave.
P.O. Box 4117
Atlanta, GA 30302-4117

404 413 5111

dgainty@gsu.edu
Academic Employment
2009 – present Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University

2007-2009 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Georgia State University


Education
Dec 2007 PhD, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Concentration in Modern Japanese History



Major Fields of Examination: “Premodern Japanese Historiography,” “Modern

Japanese Historiography,” “Power, The State, and The Body in Social Theory”



Coursework in: Modern Japanese History, Premodern Japanese History, Premodern

Japanese Literature, Modern Japanese Language, Classical Japanese Language,

Classical Chinese Language, Social Theory, Gender Studies

Dissertation Title: “Martialing the National Body: Structure, Agency, and the Dainippon

Butokukai in Modern Japan”
May 2006 MA, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Summer 2003 Intensive graduate study of Japanese language, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama
1998-1999 Intensive study of Russian language, Herzen Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
June 1998 MA, International/Comparative Education, Teachers College Columbia University

Concentration in Cultural Anthropology

1993-1994 Intensive study of Japanese language, Honmachi Culture School, Osaka
June 1992 BA cum laude in Geology; Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Scholarship/Professional Development
Publications
Monographs
In Progress Grafted Traditions: Bluegrass Music in Postwar Japan. Current book project.
March 2013 Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan. Oxon/New York: Routledge Books.
Articles/Book Chapters
Under Review “Marginal Centers: Martial Masculinities in Late Meiji Japan” in Masculinities and the

(Solicited) Nation in the Modern World, 1800-1945


2012 “Family, Gender, and Sex in Early Modern Japan” in Friday, Karl (ed) Japan Emerging:

Introductory Essays on Premodern History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
“The New Warriors: Samurai in Early Modern Japan” in Friday, Karl (ed) Japan

Emerging: Introductory Essays on Premodern History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
2009 “Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Embodied Citizen-

State Relations in Meiji Japan” in Turner, Bryan and Yangwen Zheng (eds) The Body



in Asia. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 129-146
Instructional Materials
2011 Sources of World Societies, Volumes I and II, 2nd edition. Boston/New York: Bedford/St.

Martin’s. Listed as co-author for both volumes, but solely responsible for Volume II.


2009 Sources of World Societies, Volume II: Since 1500. Boston/New York:

Bedford/St. Martin’s. Co-author.


Book Reviews
2014 Review of Allison, Anne Precarious Japan (Duke 2013) in Choice vol 51 no 10 (June

2014)
2013 Review of Kawamura, Yuniya Fashioning Japanese Subculture (Berghahn 2012) in Choice

vol 50 no 11 (July 2013)
Translations

2013 “Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq: Investigations of a Neolithic Site in Northeastern Iran”

(translation from Masuda Seiichi’s 1977 Japanese text) in Matthews, Roger and Hassan Fazeli Nashli, eds. The Neolithisation of Iran: The Formation of New Societies. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
2007 “Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of

Human Dignity” (translation of Susumu Shimazono’s Japanese text) in LaFleur,

William R., Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono, eds. 2007. Dark Medicine:

Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana

University Press. 201-222.


Public Presentations/Conferences
2015 “Martial Arts and Meiji Manliness: Nagivating the Masculine in Modern Japanese National Identities.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (accepted)
2014 “Embodying the Nation: Martial Arts, Modernity, and Meiji Japan.” Invited lecture, University of Alabama-Birmingham, AL.
2014 “High, Lonesome, and Sociotechnical: The Corporealization of American Bluegrass Music in Japan.” Corporeal Dimensions of Sociotechnics, International Sociological Association World Congress, Yokohama, Japan. Invited presentation.
2014 Discussant, “Southern Shames” panel at 2014 meeting of Georgia Association of Historians, Athens, GA.
2013 “Perspectives on the Meiji Period.” Kennesaw State University. Kennesaw, GA. Invited panelist.
2013 “Grafted Traditions: Bluegrass Roots in Japanese Soil.” World History Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN. Panel chair and organizer.
2013 “Martialing the National Body.” Invited lecture, Arkansas Tech, Little Rock, AR.
2012 Conference Host/Organizer and Program Committee Chair, Southeast World History

Association Conference; Atlanta, GA.


2012 “Marginal Centers: Martial Masculinities in Late Meiji Japan.” “Marginal Masculinities and

the Nation: Global Comparisons 1800-1945” conference; University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.


2011 Invited panelist, “Budō: Why Martial Arts are Needed Today.” Japan Foundation, United

States Martial Arts Festival; Los Angeles, CA.


2011 Discussant, “Missionaries and Imperialists in Asia.” Southeast World History Association

Conference; Maryville, TN.


2011 Invited speaker, “Meat Lecture.” “The One Who Is Really Lost: A Conference in Honor of

William R. LaFleur”; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.


2010 Program Coordinator, Southeast World History Association Conference; Kennesaw, GA.
2010 “Do Wii Fit the State?” Social Science History Association Conference; Chicago, IL.
2010 “Nothing Beats a Great Pair of Ashi: Strong Legs, National Bodies, and the Corporeality of Colonization in Late Meiji Japan.” World History Association Conference; San Diego, CA. Panel organizer.
2009 “Sports and the Spectacle in Modern World History: Teaching the Event.” Southeast World History Association Conference; Salem, VA
2009 “Embodied Virtue: Martial Arts and Public Education in Late Meiji Japan.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL. Panel chair.
2009 “These Legs Are Made For Colonizing: Imperial Bodies in Meiji Japan.” Southeast

Conference Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting; Atlanta, GA


2008 Panel Chair, “Collision – The West and the World.” Southeast World History Association Conference; Little Rock, AK
2008 “Correlating the Cosmos, Claiming the Kokutai: Embodied Agency in Meiji Japan.” Southeast World History Association Conference; Little Rock, AK
2007 “Seki Jūrōji and the Exploded Individual: Martial Arts and Negotiations of Citizen and State

in Modern Japan.” Social Science History Association Conference; Chicago, IL


2007 “Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen-State

Relations in Meiji Japan.” “The Body in Asia” conference; National University of Singapore,

Singapore
2006 “Le Kokutai, C’est Nous: Martial Arts, the Body (Politic), and Citizen-State

Relations in Meiji Japan.” Japan Foundation Fellows’ Seminar; Tokyo, Japan


2006 “Fighting the Margin: The Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association and Center-Periphery

Models in Modern Japanese History.” UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Annual Graduate

Student Conference; Los Angeles, CA
2005 “The Nail that Sticks Up: Yoshikawa Eiji’s 1930s Novelization of Miyamoto Musashi.”

Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the Association of Asian Studies; Pittsburgh, PA


2004 “Ideological Production in Prewar Japan.” Community College Humanities Association

Eastern Division Conference, Philadelphia, PA


2004 “Rebel Within a Cause: Yoshikawa Eiji’s Miyamoto Musashi and Emperor Ideology.”

Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, Cambridge, MA


Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
2014/2015 Georgia State University Research Initiation Grant
Summer 2013 Georgia State University Summer Research Grant
Spring 2013 Georgia State University PAWS Jr. Research Leave/Course Release
Spring 2013 Georgia State University Asian Studies Center Faculty Professional Support Grant
Summer 2012 Georgia State University History Department Copen Fellowship
Spring 2012 Association of Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Distinguished

Speaker Grant


Summer 2010 Georgia State University Summer Research Grant
Summer 2010 Association of Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Research Grant
2007-2008 University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Completion Grant (declined)
Spring 2007 SSRC/JSPS Fellowship for ABD’s (declined)
Spring 2007 SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop
Summer 2006 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (declined

in favor of Japan Foundation grant)


Summer 2006 Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
Fall 2003-Spring 2007 William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Summer 2003 FLAS Summer Language Scholarship
Spring 2003 Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching
Courses Taught
Georgia Institute of Technology

Summer 2013 “Cultural History of Martial Arts”



Georgia State University

2007- “Sports and Leisure in American History”

“Modern Japan”

“Survey of World History Since 1500”

“Survey of World History to 1500”

“China and Japan Since 1600”

“Cross-Cultural Encounters in World History”

Senior Research Seminar: “The Body in History”

“Teaching World History”

“The Body Politic”

“Modern Japanese Historiography” (directed reading course)

“EU Japan Economic Relations” (directed reading course)

“The Samurai” (directed reading course)

Graduate seminar: “Introduction to Graduate Studies” (1 credit)

Graduate seminar: “Pedagogy in History”

Graduate seminar: “Issues and Interpretations in World History”


University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2005 Guest lecturer for “Lost in Translation?: Japan’s Culture and America’s

Appropriations,” Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2004-2005 Teaching Fellow, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

“Japanese Film”

“Introduction to Japanese Civilization”

“Possessing Women” (cross-listed with Department of Comparative Literature)



Service and Offices Held
2014-2015 Executive Council member, World History Association
2012-2014 President, Southeast World History Association
2012- Faculty Participant, American Historical Association Tuning Project
2010- Editorial board member, World History Bulletin
2009- Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, Georgia State University

World History Committee, Department of History, Georgia State University

Assessment Committee, Department of History, Georgia State University
2005 Co-Coordinator, East Asian Graduate Student Colloquium, University of

Pennsylvania


Professional Memberships
Association of Asian Studies, American Historical Association, World History Association, Social Science History Association, Southeast Conference Association of Asian Studies, Southeast World History Association
Languages
Japanese (fluent) Spanish (conversant) Russian (conversant) German (reading knowledge)

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