James E. Ketelaar
Professor of Modern Japanese History of of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1987
Department of History
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Fax: (773) 702-7550
Office: (773) 834-0763
Email: jketelaa@uchicago.edu
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELD SPECIALTIES
Religious and intellectual history of Japan;
Tokugawa and Meiji periods.
BIOGRAPHY
Jim Ketelaar's specializations include religious and intellectual history of Japan, especially during the Tokugawa and Meiji periods.
Prof. Ketelaar is a governing board member for the undergraduate year-abroad program inKyoto at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies (KCJS).
PUBLICATIONS
Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its Persecution (Princeton: 1989) winner of the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Award.
He is currently finishing a book on the importance of the barbarian and the frontier in the construction of Japanese national identity and nationalhistory tentatively titled Ezo: A History of Japan's Eastern Frontier (Princeton). He is beginning a book project on the roles and meanings of love and eros in Japanese historical imaginations which will look at issuesranging from the relationship of Izanami and Izanagi to Shunga to the marriage of Emperors.